Lyn (Readinghearts)’s Comments (group member since Apr 07, 2009)

Lyn (Readinghearts)’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

Cycle 6 Participants and Teams:

Tien - 2 books
Lauren - 2 books
Karen - 3 books
Bea - 2 books
Lyn - 1 book
Susan - 3 books
Amy - 3 books
Marcia - 1 book

Team 1
Susan
Bea
Lyn
Amy

Team 2
Tien
Karen
Lauren
Marcia

Come join the fun! Sign Up for Cycle #6 of the Pick Of The Shelf game. The schedule for this cycle is:

Sign-ups 2/1 - 2/7 (or there abouts)
Recomendations (2/7 - 2/14)
Reading 2/18 - 3/31

Theme: War

Remember, when signing up please list:
1. How many books you want to read during the cycle
2. What shelf you want the books picked off of.

Talk about lazy...I perused what you all had listed, and here is what I have on my shelves:

Me Before You
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
The Night Circus
Heart of Darkness
Blindness
I Am the Messenger
The Help
Mockingjay

I think I will start with Me Before You, Tell the Wolves I'm Home, and/or I Am the Messenger
since they fit into other challenges that I am doing.

Candiss wrote: "

I think I'm going to finally read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston."

Another good book. I hope you enjoy it Candiss. I did.

D.G. wrote: "All these books from my TBR are in the shelf

[bookcover:Life As We ..."


Life After Life was one of my few 5 star books for last year and definitely deserves to be on the thought provoking shelf. I wish I had it to read still. Amazing book.

Bea wrote: "I found these 5 which are presently in my home: 3 library books , and , an..."

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is amazing, Bea. I would highly recommend it.

Adrienne wrote: "So, I just got the bright idea to check all the books I read this month, and lo and behold, 3 more were on the contemporary shelf!

First, [book:All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Ja..."

Those books look cool, Adrienne

Rebecca wrote: "hi... is TBR to be read?"

It sure is, otherwise known as Goodread's "to-read" shelf, or IF you are like me and a bit OCD, it can be whatever shelf you have set up as your shelf of books you want to read.

Chris wrote: "Mine are Franklin Dixon, Brian Jacques, and John Grisham. But in all reality the Animorphs author is probably in there too."

Chris - both of my boys read a lot of Brian Jacques and Anamorphs books.

Great, Thanks, Tien. :)

Bea wrote: "Are we still doing POTS? There has been no sign-up for number of books or teams set yet. I thought it had been abandoned as a game."

Yep, I plan to work on it tomorrow, if not this afternoon. I did already pick the theme person for cycle 6, but haven't heard from her and I was not able to send her a PM.

Tien - are you able to send her a note? If so, could you confirm with her. If we can't get in touch with her I will pick another person.

A while ago I finished Bellman & Black: A Ghost Story by Diane Setterfield. Although I liked the story and the characters, it was nothing like The Thirteenth Tale. Plus I can't for the life of me understand why it is called a ghost story. That lead me to expect something else.

I'm still giving it 3.5 stars, probably wold give it 4 if it the title hadn't of set my expectations in another direction.

Welcome Ashleigh and Charity. Hope that you both enjoy the challenge. You both have some great books on your lists.

Karen wrote: "Finished my three books

Not The End Of The World 3*
Sugar and Spice 2*
Howards End 3*"

So - you were randomly selected as the theme picker for Cycle 6, which will be starting on Saturday. I tried to send you a message, but couldn't. Let me know what you want the theme to be for the next cycle.

Tien wrote: "I've splurged the week prior and they all arrived last week! You can see the 10 books on my blog post BUT what I wanted to flount was...



I found this red copy of The Intern -the..."

That is so cool, Tien. What a find, heh?

Congrats Coralie. Can't wait to see what shelf you pick for next month!

Sounds like an interesting book, Tien.

LynnB wrote: "Several years ago my f2f book club read Wicked and we had quite a discussion on it. We then decided to re-read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the next month and discuss again..."

I have read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, too and agree, it is much different than the movie, but interestingly so, I think, I'll bet the discussion of it and Wicked together was something.

Tien wrote: "This quote's part of my review for Laskar Pelangi or The Rainbow Troops

At that moment it seemed as if all the hands on all the clocks in the entire world stood stil..."

Lol, Tien....I think it is kind of self-explanatory.

Wow Susan, you are a reading machine. I love the quotes you left. How did you like Wicked? I tried to read it years ago, but just could not finish it.

I also love the way you explained leaving out the character name in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, too.