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

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

Second Round on the Board

2017-Dec-30 10:34 am - Started from "Pick-A-Shelf's 10th Anniversary" - Rolled 11
P: Orphan Train - Lagullande
Lagullande picked:
Homegoing
Flying Too High - Read 2018-Jan-05
The Thorn Birds

2017-Dec-31 8:22 am - Rolled 3
P: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - Paola
Paola picked:
The Old Man and the Sea
Mockingjay - Read 2018-Jan-25
Ender's Game

2018-Jan-05 10:12 pm - Rolled 11
FREE PARKING
Sort Bookopoly 2018 shelf by "Random"
1st book on shelf: Homegoing - Read 2018-Feb-04 two days past due date

2018-Jan-14 08:30 pm - Rolled 5
T: Big and Little
Task 2. Read a book where title contains at least 16 letters (excluding subtitle) - Interpreter of Maladies - Read 2018-Jan-27

2018-Jan-25 08:52 pm - Rolled 4
P: Dark Matter
Jayme picked:
Sword of the Rightful King
The Reptile Room
Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858 - Read 2018-Feb-17

2018-Jan-27 9:34 am - Rolled 5
P: Left Neglected
Paola picked:
The Old Man and the Sea
The Maze Runner
Murder on the Orient Express - Read 2018-Feb-16

2018-Feb-04 6:59 pm - Rolled 9

Thanks, Tien (and other mods, too), for all the work you do for these games/challenges!

Tien, in this example above, under D - Completion

...
Completed
Spin 1
Spin 2 - read
Spin 3 - read
Spin 4 - read
Spin 5 - read
Spin 6 - read
Spin 7 - read
Spin 8 - read
Spin 9
Spin 10

You may ignore Spins 1, 9, & 10 and claim completion of Round.
...

Let's say that Spins 1, 2, 3, and 4 are shelves and Spin 5 is a "Bankrupt" - so in this case, for Spin 5, the player would only have to deduct 10% of the pages for the books used based on Spin 2 - Spin 4; no need to figure to deduct 10% of any pages associated with a Spin 1 book, because it's not being used for completion (because there were enough pages for completion without it and all completed spins were still consecutive); is that correct?

Thanks!

Please check whether these books can be confirmed from the "Love from Afar" shelf:

Love From Afar 1x: A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson - page 23
Love From Afar 1x: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - page 23
Love From Afar 1x: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - page 22
Love From Afar 1x: And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander - page 22
Love From Afar 1x: Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire - page 22

Thanks, Cluckingbell and Lusie, for taking the time to take a look at it for me :)

Actually I did find multiple books from "Love from Afar" that are also already on my to-read shelf - by the expedient of going to the last pages for the shelf, rather than the first one. Here they are, in case this helps anyone else:
* A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson - page 23
* Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - page 22 (Catching Fire on page 23)
* And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander - page 22
* Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire - page 22

I'll check if these are in the Google spreadsheet yet, and ask for them to be confirmed, if they're not.

Any books or authors on the "Love from Afar" shelf that people would recommend? I don't read the romance genre that often, and when I do, I'm usually looking for the book to have "something else" as well - things like: strong characterization; characters coming of age or "finding a place" for themselves in the world; character establishing a livelihood (restaurant, photography studio, artist); subplots involving other characters than just the lead couple; a mystery to solve... (not all of these in any one book, obviously, but just to give an idea of a "something else" that adds interest for me.) Thanks!

LOST 2018
Duration: 2018-Jan-01 thru 2018-Dec-31
Progress: 2/10

_ 1) Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson | Added 2010-Nov-23
✓ 2) The Night Angel by T. Davis Bunn | Added 2010-Nov-24 | Read 2018-Mar-12
✓ 3) Sabriel by Garth Nix | Added 2010-Nov-30 | Read 2018-Mar-05
_ 4) Blind Descent by Nevada Barr | Added 2010-Dec-01
_ 5) How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff | Added 2010-Dec-03
_ 6) We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg | Added 2010-Dec-03
_ 7) Science in the Twentieth Century: A Social-Intellectual Survey by Steven L. Goldman | Added 2010-Dec-04 NOT A BOOK
_ 7) Say When by Elizabeth Berg | Added 2010-Dec-06
_ 8) The Cross of Lead by Avi | Added 2010-Dec-07
_ 9) Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn | Added 2010-Dec-09
_ 10) A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

Wheel of Bookshelves
Round 1 Planning
Goal: 3,780 pages

✓ Spin 1 - Pastiche 9x: The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz - 294 pages - Read 2018-Mar-18
✓ Spin 2 - Geek
11x: Geekerella by Ashley Poston - 320 pages - Read 2018-May-29
✓ Spin 3 - Lady Detective 5x: Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood - 256 pages - Read 2018-Jan-05
* Spin 4 - Bankrupt - Lose 10%
✓ Spin 5 - Interesting Magic System 4x: Sabriel by Garth Nix - 491 pages - Read 2018-Mar-05
✓ Spin 6 - Who Dun It 2x: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie - 274 pages - Read 2018-Feb-16
_ Spin 7 - Lose a Turn
* Spin 8 - Bankrupt - Lose 10%
_ Spin 9 - Lose a Turn
✓ Spin 10 - Love From Afar 1x: The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson confirmed - 344 pages - Read 2018-Apr-08
✓ Spin 11 - Love From Afar 1x: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins confirmed - 392 pages - Read 2018-Jan-25
✓ Spin 12 - Other Countries 3x: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - 300 pages - Read 2018-Feb-04
✓ Spin 13 - Interesting Magic System 5x: Uprooted by Naomi Novik - 435 pages - Read 2018-Mar-24
_ Spin 14 - One POV 4x: The Maze Runner by James Dashner - 384 pages
✓ Spin 15 - Elderly 4x: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - 337 pages - Read 2018-Apr-04
_ Spin 16- Lose a Turn
_ Spin 17- Kick-Ass Heroines 16x: On the Edge by Ilona Andrews - 309 pages
Spin 18- Bankrupt - Lose 10%

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Estimated running total of pages after each spin:
(view spoiler)[
1. 294
2. 614
3. 870
4. 783
5. 1274
6. 1548
7. 1548
8. 1393
9. 1393
10. 1737
11. 2129
12. 2429
13. 2864
14. 3248
15. 3585
16. 3585
17. 3894
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Possible replacements:
Kick-Ass Heroines 90x: Divergent by Veronica Roth - 487 pages
Other Countries 1x: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough confirmed - 692 pages

Wheel of Bookshelves

Total Pages Read: 34,362
Goal for Round 1: 11% = 3,780
Goal for Round 2: 12% = 4,123
Goal for Round 3: 13% = 4,467
Goal for Round 4: 14% = 4,810

Moving Mountain - 2018 Edition
Challenge Period: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2018

My TBR currently stands at 2992 ( as of 2017-Dec-28)
2+9+9+2 = 22
Level of participation = 22 books

Progress: 2/22

_ 1) - 196 | S, _6 | Abel's Island | William Steig | pub. 1976 | added 2012
+ 2) - 80 | H, _0 | True Devotion | Dee Henderson | pub. 2000 | added 2017
_ 3) - 265 | Z, _5 | Tiger Burning Bright | Marion Zimmer Bradley | pub. 1995 | added 2011
_ 4) - 233 | W, _3 | Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson | pub. 2003 | added 2012
_ 5) - 35 | C,_5 | The Big Bazoohley | Peter Carey | pub. 1995 | added 2017
✓ 6) - 65 | F, _5 | Georgia's Bones | Jennifer Fisher Bryant | pub. 2005 | added 2017 | read 2018-Jan-19
_ 7) - 130 | M, _0 | Bamboo People | Mitali Perkins | pub. 2010 | added 2017
_ 8) - 105 | J, _5 | Annie John | Jamaica Kincaid | pub. 1985 | added 2013
_ 9) - 65 | F, _5 | The Ghost in the Noonday Sun | Sid Fleischman | pub. 1965 | added 2017
+ 10) - 74 | G, _4 | Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. | Bette Greene | pub. 1974 | added 2016
_ 11) - 106 | J, _6 | Preaching to the Chickens | Jabari Asim | pub. 2016 | added 2017
_ 12) - 75 | G, _5 | Dogsong | Gary Paulsen | pub. 1985 | added 2017
_ 13) - 99 | I, _9 | On the Edge | Ilona Andrews | pub. 2009 | added 2012
_ 14) - 53 | E, _3 | Say When | Elizabeth Berg | added 2010
_ 15) - 265 | Z, _5 | On Beauty | Zadie Smith | pub. 2005 | added 2013
_ 16) - 80 | H, _0 | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand | Helen Simonson | pub. 2010 | added 2010
✓ 17) - 111 | K, _1 | The Tiger Rising | Kate Di Camillo | pub. 2001 | added 2017 | read 2018-Jan-07
_ 18) - 223 | V, _3 | The House of Windjammer | V.A. Richardson | pub. 2003 | added 2017
+ 19) - 206 | T, _6 | The Night Angel | T. Davis Bunn | pub. 2006 | added 2010
_ 20) - 35 | C, _5 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | added 2010
_ 21) - 146 | N, _6 | A String in the Harp | Nancy Bond | pub. 1976 | added 2010
_ 22) - 269 | Z, _9 | William S. and the Great Escape | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | pub. 2009 | added 2013

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Alternatives
4) - 233 | W, _3 | Maisie Dobbs | Jacqueline Winspear | pub. 2003 | added 2011
2) - 80 | H, _0 | The Island | Elin Hilderbrand | pub. 2010 | added 2017

But, I am still trying to figure it all out. Is there a penalty for those who do not own any properties, (as I do not, yet) - if they do not finish a book on time?

I think that I will finish it in time.

Hello, All :)
May I please get 3 picks for:

P: Dark Matter

My Bookopoly Shelf

Paola wrote: "Sue wrote: "May I please get 3 picks for:

P: Cover of Snow

My Bookopoly Shelf"

Here they are!
4:50 from Paddington
The Book of Lies
The Island of Dr. Moreau"

Thank you Paola. I am still deciding which one of the three to use for this roll/move. Although I think the property is currently open for purchase, I decided not to try for that this time. So, I'm holding off on my choice for now, to see which fits best with other challenges, a little bit later this month.

May I please get 3 picks for:

P: Cover of Snow

My Bookopoly Shelf

Tien wrote: "I've landed on Zero at the Bone, could I please have 3 picks from my shelf?"

Here you go, Tien:
P: Zero at the Bone
Mississippi Roll - a recently added one
The Road to Winter - a not too long one
Acorna's Quest - first one when listed alphabetically by title

So I am hoping to watch the Properties to Purchase discussion, to get a better idea how it works, from those of you who've played before - and to see how much in demand they are - because if it's going to be a real competitive thing at first then I'll probably hold off for a while and see if something opens up later or is still open after the dust clears - lol.

Anyway, it appears to still be locked, but it should be open now, right?

Thanks!

LaurLa wrote: "Hi again!! I have landed on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - May I have 3 choices please?

LaurLa's Bookopoly Shelf"

Here are 3 choices for P: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame:

Happily Ever Ninja - I looked for one in the page range for a property purchase, to give you the option :)
Love Her Madly - Here's a not-to-long one
Fancy Pants by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - An author that I'd like to read

Amanda A wrote: "Can I please get three picks from my shelf for Mind of My Mind? Thanks!"

Here are 3 choices for P: Mind of my Mind -

Artemis - one of your more recently added books
Merry and Bright - looks like a quick read, and seasonal
All the Crooked Saints - a book that we have in common on our to-read shelves