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

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

I second what Tien said, I'll leave it up to Bea and Amy to make the call.

Thanks D.G.

FYI

I moved all of the discussion threads from Cycle #1 to the Archive folder for POTS. IF you still want to see them, they are here

For me - Pick from my to-read-mine shelf please

My books for D.G.
Theme book: The Other Side of Us by
Sarah Mayberry
Grave Mercy


My books for Carrie
Theme book: Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
The Time Traveler's Wife

My books for Donna
Theme Book: The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd
The Pillars of the Earth - This is one of my top ten books of all time. :)
Stardust - I want to know how you like this one as it is on one of my to read lists.

Team Members are:
D.G.'s choices
Theme Books: The Other Side of Us by Sarah Mayberry
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Grave Mercy
Easy

Lyn M's Choices
Theme Books: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

Dissolution
The Fault in Our Stars

Carrie's choices
Theme books: Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
Angelfall by Susan Ee

The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Time Traveler's Wife

Donna's choices
Theme Books: The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd
Angelfall by Susan Ee
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Pillars of the Earth
Stardust
Prince of Thorns
Linked
Still Alice
Among Others

*****Drum roll, please******

The teams are up in the second post. Again....I apologize everyone. I have been sick for a few days and although feeling better today, totally forgot about this. Next time I am going to book myself an appointment with a reminder.

Just a note - I put one person who signed up for 2 books in the one book team to even things out. So for those of us on the one books team...Don't forget to pick three books for Donna instead of just two.

Sorry All, I was sick yesterday and TOTALLY spaced this out. I am working on putting up the teams right now.


MY BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!

D.G. wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "This one made me laugh out load, D.G. I love the picture of the Eastwood God versus the Charlton Heston God. "

LOL, Lyn! That's why I posted it. This is actually a secondary characte..."

That alone would make it worth reading the book. Just to see his take on God as all of these TV personalities.

You know what they say, Waiting is the hardest part, right?

Lynn - Another book that has been on my TBR forever. And all of these quotes are just making me want to read them all the more. I just need more time!

OOH, I love "We had a real pig of a day". I had never heard that one, but I think I am going to use it.

I have this book Bea and have been wanting to read it. I need to bump it up on the list, lol.

Bea wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "Each person on the team will pick for ALL of their other team members.

OK...I'm getting there, Lyn. 4 books picked by my three team members = 12 to choose from. "By George, I think ..."

My fault, Bea. I should have redone the rules better. Sorry it was so confusing. It was one of those things that seemed right at the time, you know, but then when I went back and looked at it, I was asking myself why I would EVER leave the original rules there. Talk about DUH moments. :P

But you do have it now!

D.G. wrote: "From Dream a Little Dream:

The Eastwood God was strict Old Testament: You screwed up, punk, and now you're going to pay.

God had been talking to Ethan for years. When he was a kid, the voice had ..."

This one made me laugh out load, D.G. I love the picture of the Eastwood God versus the Charlton Heston God.

Adrienne wrote: "From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

"Three hundred dollars is a power of money. I wish my mother could get it. Is your husband going over there tonight?""

Adreinne, that is one of my favorite books. In fact, Mark Twain is probably one of my top two favorite authors of all time.

Ahh, I see where the confusion is. I put the changes for Cycle #2 in bold at the top instead of incorporating them in the rules. My bad. Sorry. I will go fix that. Any way, the new rule is:

-Each person on the team will pick for ALL of their other team members.
-The number of books you pick for each member is equal to the number they have elected to read +1.

And they do have to be distinct book (I hadn't made that clear, so will update the rules with that, too), so if someone has already picked a book from your list, it cannot be picked again for his cycle. So you would have 12 distinct books chosen, of which you need to read three.

Bea wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "Remember all, there is a theme this cycle. My only thought is that if you are making up special lists, you need to make sure that there are books on the list that fit the theme. We ..."

I see how you thought that, Bea. Since everyone will be picking for everyone else, and there will be teams of 4 this time, so if you want to read 3, the other three people would each pick 1 theme and 3 others for you. That would give you a total of 12 books to choose from. Does that make sense?

I mainly changed it because I didn't want the lists to get too unwieldy for those of your reading a large number of books.

For those of us picking 1 book, we would still get 6 choices.

Susan wrote: "No worries. My shelf has all my LOST and Mt. TBR books in it, so 112 books. Author's initials from the 9 specified letters shouldn't be hard to find.

And -- to be clear about the rules -- each cho..."

Exactly right, Susan.

Remember all, there is a theme this cycle. My only thought is that if you are making up special lists, you need to make sure that there are books on the list that fit the theme. We will probably have teams of 4, and the original thought is that each of your team members has to nominate at least one book that fits the theme. That would mean that there needs to be at least three books that fit the theme on the list.

The other option is to have just one person in the group pick a theme book for you, in which case you would only need one book to fit the theme on your list. But I was afraid that would get to complicated?

Sound like fun, everyone. I like the idea of a POTS shelf, too.

Susan wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "I love the way you pick quotes, Susan. They always give me just enough of a glimpse to make me curious. Like with this one. Now I want to know what the dad myth is and what DOES a ..."

You are peaking my interest. Sounds like an intersting book.