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

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

My Magical Realism book is One Hundred Years of Solitude which also happens to be on my LOST list :)

I have finished one book from my LOST list - The Solitary Envoy

February: A F K L D - Completed 2017-Apr-04
** ** ** ** **
✓ a. Shelf 1: A Appalachia - The Ballad of Tom Dooley | Sharyn McCrumb | 2017-Mar-03
✓ b. Shelf 2: F Frog Prince - Water Song: A Retelling of The Frog Prince | Suzanne Weyn | 2017-Mar-20
✓c. Shelf 3: L LDS-fiction - The Actor and the Housewife | Shannon Hale | 2017-Feb-09
✓ d. Shelf 4: D Dogs - The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 2017-Jan-23
✓ e. Shelf 5: K Krakatoa - Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded | Simon Winchester | 2017-Apr-04
** ** ** ** **
✓ f. first word in title (excluding a, an, the) - A Faraway Island | Annika Thor | 2017-Jan-26
✓ g. any word in title (excluding a, an, the) - A Special FATE: Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust | Leslie Alison Gold | 2017-Jan-24
✓ h. author's first name - Annika Thor | A Faraway Island | 2017-Jan-26
✓ i. author's last name - i. author's last name - London, Jack | The Call of the Wild | 2017-Jan-23
✓ j. item on cover - Dog | The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 2017-Jan-23 (see top)
_ k. any word in Series name / Subtitle (excl. a, an, the, novel, trilogy, series, chronicles, memoir, biography, autobiography) - #2 in Kurt Wallander series | The Dogs of Riga | Henning Mankell | 2017-Feb-18
✓ l. name of character* - Lionel | Lionclaw | Nancy Springer | 2017-Feb-07
** ** ** ** **

Susan wrote: "...
I can already tell I'm going to regret this -- I couldn't help myself, and signed up for all 4 challenges we have going right now. If I start feeling too overwhelmed, I may decide not to keep going on all of them. But planning is almost as much fun as reading the books!
"

You could think of it as challenges having 3 phases - the planning, the reading, and the tracking. Planning might actually be my favorite of the three phases :)

Tien wrote: "... Good question, Sue! I did a quick search on Google on the term, 'round table', and the first search result is a reference to King Arthur's Round Table so I'll accept this as NOT a generic item and you can use the phrase for item category.
"

Thanks, Tien!

Question about item on cover...

I am reading this book:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

which shows the Round Table on the cover.
I understand per the rules that I could not just use a "generic" round table for 'R'. However in this case it identifies a specific unique item.
So, checking if this will work or not.

Thanks!

Thank you, Bea!

To clarify about timelines, is this correct:

* All books that we use for the challenge must be started no sooner than Jan 1st, 2017.
* A book started in January 2017 but not finished until after the March letters are posted could be used for January, February or March letters? (but can only be used for any given category one time.) Am I understanding this correctly?

Thanks.

Thanks, Tien and Bea. Yes, I also read books for all ages, so it is good news that I can use the childrens' books as well.

Is there a minimum number of pages for books to be used in this challenge?

Thanks.

January: S G R P I - Completed 2017-Feb-11
** ** ** ** **
✓ a. Shelf 1: S - Satire - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | 2017-Feb-06
✓ b. Shelf 2: G - Giraffes - A Giraffe Goes to Paris | Mary Tavener Holmes | 2017-Feb-11
✓ c. Shelf 3: R - Robin Hood - Lionclaw | Nancy Springer | 2017-Feb-07
✓ d. Shelf 4: P - Paris - Madeline's Rescue | Ludwig Bemelmans | 2017-Jan-02
✓ e. Shelf 5: I - Italy - The House by the Sea | Santa Montefiore | 2017-Feb-04
** ** ** ** **
✓ f. first word in title (excluding a, an, the) - The Solitary Envoy | T. Davis Bunn | 2017-Jan-19
✓ g. any word in title (NOT FIRST) (excluding a, an, the) - Vision IN White | Nora Roberts | 2017-Jan-12
✓ h. author's first name - Santa Montefiore | The House by the Sea | 2017-Feb-04
✓ i. author's last name - Roberts, Nora | Vision in White | 2017-Jan-12
✓ j. item on cover - Round Table | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | 2017-Feb-06 (see top)
✓ k. any word in Series name / Subtitle (excl. a, an, the, novel, trilogy, series, chronicles, memoir, biography, autobiography) - #2 in Rowan Hood series | Lionclaw | Nancy Springer | 2017-Feb-07
✓ l. name of character* - Rafa Santoro | The House by the Sea | Santa Montefiore | 2017-Feb-04
** ** ** ** **

1 Skip can be earned by reading 2 books:
-with 500+ pages; OR
-which have been translated from the original language they were first published in to the language you are reading it*; OR
-non-fiction

Books read fitting Skip conditions:
Translation #1a - A Faraway Island | Annika Thor | 2017-Jan-26 - translated from Swedish
Translation #1b - The Dogs of Riga | Henning Mankell | 2017-Feb-18 - translated from Swedish
Translation #2a - One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 2017-Feb-25 - translated from Spanish


Non-fiction #1a- A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust | Leslie Alison Gold | 2017-Jan-24
Non-fiction #1b- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded | Simon Winchester | 2017-Apr-04

Skips earned:
Translations - 1
Non-fiction - 1

List of books to read - available to crossover with noted categories

List of shelves used

Aleutian Islands - April
Appalachia - February
Arthurian
Chimera - June
Circus - July
Cold War - April

Dogs - February
Edinburgh - May
Frog Prince - February
Giraffes - January
Ghosts - May

Grief - March
Huntington's Disease - June
Iowa - May
Italy - January
Jewish - July

Krakatoa - February
Latin-American - March
London - July
LDS-fiction - February
Maine - April

Magic - May
Monsters - March
Nordic Noir - March
Oman - July
Outdoors - June

Paris - January
Pottery - April
Realistic Fiction - May
Robin Hood - January
Satire - January

Twelve Dancing Princesses - June
Twins - March
Wizards - June
World War I - April
World War II - July

The Card
** ** ** ** **
_ a. Shelf 1
_b. Shelf 2
_c. Shelf 3
_d. Shelf 4
_e. Shelf 5
** ** ** ** **
_f. first word in title (excluding a, an, the)
_g. any word in title (excluding a, an, the)
_h. author's first name
_i. author's last name
_j. item on cover
_k. any word in Series name / Subtitle (excl. a, an, the, novel, trilogy, series, chronicles, memoir, biography, autobiography)
_l. name of character*
** ** ** ** **

Sue's LOST list:

_ 1) - The House at Riverton | Kate Morton
✓ 2) - The Solitary Envoy | T. Davis Bunn | Read 2017-Feb-18
_ 3) - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand
_ 4) - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson
_ 5) - Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë
✓ 6) - One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | Read 2017-Feb-25
+ 7) - The Merchant of Death | D.J. MacHale
+ 8) - A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini
+ 9) - Endangered Species | Nevada Barr
✓ 10) - The Dogs of Riga | Henning Mankell | Read 2017-Feb-18

All were added in 2010.

I am participating in "Pick-a-Shelf" for the first time, and I am planning to read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court from the Bucket-List shelf (shows up on page 7 of "Popular Bucket List Books") in January 2017.

Also, I will aim to start reading Anna Karenina in January, but probably won't finish within the month, hence the above for my actual pick for Jan-2017.

Challenge Dates: 2017-Jan-01 to 2017-Dec-31
Goal: 26 books
Progress: 23/26

I joined Goodreads in 2010.
Ace - 2011
2 - 2012
3 - 2013
4 - 2014
5 - 2015
6 - 2016
7 - 2007 2016
8 - 2008 2015
9 - 2009 2014
10 - 2010
Jack - 2011
Queen - 2012
King - 2013

Drawing 13 cards, to start:
RED ♢ ♡ = A-L Progress: 7/7
✓ 2♢ =2012 - Atkinson, Kate | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | Read 2017-Mar-11 - added 2012-Jul-04
✓ 8♡ =2015 - Benjamin, Nell | The Explorers Club | Read 2017-May-09 - added 2015-Jul-12
✓ K♢ =2013 - le Carré, John | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | Read 2017-Mar-29 - added 2013-Jul-22
✓ 6♡ =2016 - Gold, Alison Leslie | A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust | Read 2017-Jan-24 - added 2016-Nov-25
✓ 4♡ =2014 - Hoose, Phillip M. | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Read 2017-Apr-15 - added 2014-Jul-11
✓ 5♡ =2015 - King-Smith, Dick | The Sheep-Pig | Read 2017-May-08 - added 2015-May-08
✓ 8♢ =2015 - King-Smith, Dick | The Water Horse | Read 2017-May-10 - added 2015-Jul-11

BLACK ♣︎ ♠︎ = M-Z Progress: 6/6
✓ Q♠︎ =2012 - Tomlinson, Theresa | The Forestwife | Read 2017-Apr-01 - added 2012-Apr-16
✓ Q♣︎ =2012 - Shepard, Aaron | The Magic Flyswatter: A Superhero Tale of Africa, Retold from the Mwindo Epic | Read 2017-May-15 - added 2012-Jan-19
✓ 2♠︎ =2012 - Schmidt, Gary D. | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Read 2017-Apr-07 - added 2012-Jan-15
✓ 6♣︎ =2016 - Springer, Nancy | Lionclaw | Read 2017-Feb-07 - added 2016-Dec-21
✓ 7♠︎ =2016 - Osborne-McKnight, Juilene | I Am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick and Osian | Read 2017-Feb-18 - added 2016-Jun-09
✓ 5♣︎ =2015 - Twain, Mark | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Read 2017-Feb-06 - added 2015-Jun-25


2017-Mar-23: Drawing my next set of 13 cards, to help me select books for AMMP Backpacking Around the World challenge.
(Oh my! All I can say is that I hope I like authors from the first half of the alphabet ;)
RED ♢ ♡ = A-L Progress: 5/12
+ J♢ *2011* - Gaiman, Neil | Coraline - added 2011-Jun-20
✓ 8♢ *2015* - Draper, Sharon M. | Stella by Starlight | Read 2017-Jun-30 - added 2015-Mar-24
+ 4♡ *2014* - Carter, Ally | I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You - added 2014-Jun-20
✓ 6♡ *2016* - Genova, Lisa | Inside the O'Briens | Read 2017-May-23 - added 2016-Jan-02
+ 9♢ *2014* - Eve, Nomi | Henna House - added 2014-Aug-13
✓ 3♢ *2013* - Crompton, Anne Eliot - Merlin's Harp | Read 2017-May-16 - added 2013-Nov-11
✓ 5♡ *2015*- Edwardson, Debby Dahl | My Name is Not Easy | Read 2017-Nov-08 - added 2015-Jun-01
* A♡ *2011* - Levine, Gail Carson | Ever - added 2011-Jul-05
+ 2♢ *2012* - Barr, Nevada | The Rope - added 2012-Mar-29
_ J♡ *2011* - Hanff, Helene | 84, Charing Cross Road - Added 2011-Oct-05
Kushner, Rachel | Telex from Cuba | Added 2011-Aug-17
Bradley, Alan | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - added 2011-Feb-20
Brooks, Geraldine | March - Added 2011-Feb-27
+ 10♡ *2010* - Donnelly, Jennifer | A Northern Light - Added 2010-Dec-26
_ 9♡ *2014* - Bowman, Patrick | Torn from Troy - added 2014-Dec-30


Note 01-Nov: Need 2011 x 2, 2014

BLACK ♣︎ ♠︎ M-Z Progress: 0/1
+ 4♠︎ *2014* - Springer, Nancy | The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline - added 2014-Jul-20

♢ ♡ ♣︎ ♠︎