Sue’s Comments (group member since Oct 16, 2016)

Sue’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

Thank you, Paola!

I will pick Murder on the Orient Express because it fits with the AMMP BOTM genre for February and because I can use it for Wheel of Bookshelves Round 1 (although I think The Maze Runner is also one of my planned books for Wheel of Bookshelves R1)

May I please get 3 picks for:

P: Left Neglected

My Bookopoly Shelf

Thank you, Jayme! I think that I can best fit in a shorter one right now, so I am going to choose Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858

May I please get 3 picks for:

P: Dark Matter

My Bookopoly Shelf

Thanks, Tien!

Don't be *horrified* - lol. I think what happened is that I made my entries here, and in the Round 1 thread, at about the same time. And we all know how Goodreads might be "glitch-y" about notifications sometimes. So, I think when the one got missed, the other got missed for the same reason. And if I had noticed both at the same time I would have mentioned them both at once. But I didn't. So, sorry to cause concern about it - I think there was only one instance of missing something, not two :)

Hi Tien,

I think I have yet to be added to the list of participants in this thread. My entry is in message 56 above. Thanks!

Sue Round 2 - part 2

Sorry, I initially mistakenly added my spins in a second comment (this one) instead of into the message immediately above (as they are now).
By the time I realized the mistake, there were additional comments from at least one other person following this one - so I didn't want to delete and throw all the links and/or message numbers off.

I probably won't need an "overflow" but in case I do I'll use this entry.

(My second goof is that in trying to consolidate into one message I accidentally lost where I had recorded the "Friends" shelves that I had spun. At least I hadn't looked up commonalities in any shelves yet.
Now will proceed with a re-do for the spins.) - and ... Done!

Wheel of Bookshelves
Round 2 Planning
Goal: 4,123 pages

_ Spin 1 - CluckingBell
_ Spin 2 - Stacie - The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah | 435 pages
* Spin 3 - Bankrupt
✓ Spin 4 - Lusie - How to Train Your Dragon | Cressida Cowell | 214 pages | read 2018-Feb-28
✓ Spin 5 - JessieBee - The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner | 280 pages | read 2018-May-26
✓ Spin 6 - Dee - A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story | Linda Sue Park | 128 pages - read 2018-Apr-28
* Spin 7 - Bankrupt
✓ Spin 8 - LynnB - To the Hilt | Dick Francis | 352 pages - read 2018-Apr-14
✓ Spin 9 - Amy - Then She Was Gone | Lisa Jewell | 426 pages - read 2018-May-28
✓ Spin 10 - Stacie - Mariana | Susanna Kearsley | 382 pages - read 2018-Apr-25
✓ Spin 11 - Lacy - The Great Zoo of China | Matthew Reilly | 403 pages - read 2018-Mar-28
✓ Spin 12 - Karen - A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle | 129 pages - read 2018-May-13
✓ Spin 13 - Michelle - Life As We Knew It | Susan Beth Pfeffer | 337 pages - read 2018-Mar-31
* Spin 14 - Bankrupt
✓ Spin 15 - Stacey - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley | 374 pages - read 2018-Feb-27
✓ Spin 16 - Lacy - The Alice Network | Kate Quinn | 520 pages - read 2018-May-10
✓ Spin 17 - Amanda A - Whistling Past the Graveyard | Susan Crandall | 308 pages - read 2018-May-05
✓ Spin 18 - Lacy - Timebound | Rysa Walker | 374 pages - read 2018-Jun-30
_ Spin 19 - Dee - I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced | 188 pages
✓ Spin 20 - Kristina Simon - The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 132 pages read 2018-Jun-13
✓ Spin 21 - Jayme(the ghost reader) - Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858 | Kathryn Lasky | 157 pages read 2018-Feb-17
✓ Spin 22 - JessieBee - Cruel Beauty | Rosamund Hodge | 352 pages - read 2018-May-27
✓ Spin 23 - Sassafrass - The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie | 224 pages - read 2018-Jul-12
_ Spin 24 - LynnB - Funeral in Blue | Anne Perry | 352 pages
_ Spin 25 - Lose-a-turn
And with that last one, I stop spinning! Have more than enough, I think, but gives me some flexibility with which continuous range of spins I use.

Big Little Lies | 460 pages

I have one book read, 256 pages out of 3,780 total - I have two more books that I hope to read in the second part of this month (January) that will bring me up to 948 pages read. This isn't taking into account the impact of bankrupts and my Lose a Turn books that I need to read.
But I had anticipated both lagging behind the group in general (probably still needing to finish up this Round 1 well after Round 2 becomes available), and additionally getting a slow start in January, because of finishing up some challenges from other groups that ran Nov-Jan or Dec-Jan and not necessarily being able to find a lot of overlap between books that work for those challenges and books on the shelves for Round 1 of this game.
All of which is Ok- it's just for fun anyway, and I do still find it fun :)

Another confirmation request, please:

Who-Dun-It 2x:
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Link comes from the "shelf/users" search method.

Thank you!

Hi Tien,

I missed getting a link added in the List of Participants. My entry above is message 54.

Thanks!

Tien wrote: "Posts 100-106 all confirmed!

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Thanks, Tien!

Another confirmation request, please:

Pastiche 1x:
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Link comes from the "shelf/users" search method.

Thank you!

Thank you, Paola, for some good picks :)

Of those 3, I am choosing Mockingjay, to add to my reading plan for January (per the Bookopoly game.)

Another confirmation request, please:

Who-Dun-It 2x: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Link comes from the "shelf/users" search method.

Thank you!

Hello and Happy New Year, Paola :)
I have just landed on "The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane"
May I please have 3 picks:

My Bookopoly Shelf

Thanks!

Sue wrote: "
... I'll be back again Sunday or Monday to let you know which one I chose.

My new "White Elephant Party" category turned out to be "Crime (and Mystery)", so I am going to choose Flying Too High. Thanks again for the picks, and thanks for your virtual hospitality on the Orphan Train property :)

Lagullande wrote: "
Here you go, Sue: ...

Thank you, Lagullande, and Happy New Year to you too!
I like all 3 of your picks! I'm doing some final comparisons between the three, regarding which might be the quickest available from the library at this time; which can be best used in January for other challenges (in this group and other groups), and also waiting to see what my next category will be in the AAMP group's White Elephant Party game - and then I will make my choice. I'll be back again Sunday or Monday to let you know which one I chose.

I have another confirmation request, please:

Other Countries 1x: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Link comes from the "shelf/users" search method.

Thank you - and Happy New Year!

Hi, Lagullande :)
I have just landed on "Orphan Train"
May I please have 3 picks:

My Bookopoly Shelf

Thanks!