LaurLa’s Comments (group member since Nov 30, 2016)

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

Challenge complete! Thank-you!
Updated post: My Trim That TBR Challenge (msg 41)

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
December 2021

My December Plan (msg 19)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Complete plan

December Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for December
✔🔹contemporary-fiction - Every Time We Fall In Love - 12.04 ★★★★
✔🔹suspense - Cold Pursuit - 12.10 ★★★★
✔🔹fantasy - Rebel's Karma - 12.22 ★★★★

2. New Release - Read book/s published in 2021
✔🔹Jan 2021 - The Sweetest Fix - 12.23 ★★★★

3. Owned - Read book/s you owned (physically or digitally) by 11/30/21
✔🔹acquired May 2014 - Home For Christmas - 12.12 ★★★
✔🔹acquired April 2021 - Zane - 12.27 ★★★
✔🔹acquired Jan 2015 - The Questioning Miss Quinton - 12.25 ★★★
✔🔹acquired Aug 2021 - Courted by Karma - 12.29 ★★★★

4. Pick-a-Shelf 1 - Read for another PAS challenge
✔🔹Seriously Serial challenge - Behind a Texas Badge - 12.22 ★★★

5. Pick-a-Shelf 4 - Our gift to you: Read Any Book you want to!
✔🔹Vampire - 12.02 ★★★★

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
October - December 2021

My October Plan (msg 23)

October Tasks:

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for October
✔🔹mystery - Dagger's Edge - 10.23 ★★★★
✔🔹paranormal - Dark Debt - 10.31 ★★★★
✔🔹novellas - Reach Me - 10.06 ★★
✔🔹ghosts - The Evil Inside - 10.17 ★★★★

2. Birthday 1 - Read book/s first published this month [October] of any year
✔🔹Oct 2017 - You Do Something to Me - 11.13 ★★★★
✔🔹Oct 2010 - Master of the Abyss - 10.22 ★★★★

3. Birthday 2 - Read book/s written by author/s born this month, October
✔🔹Nora Roberts/JD Robb - Leverage in Death - 10.11 ★★★★

4. Birthday 3 - Read book/s first published in 2008
✔🔹Oct 2008 - Me and My Ghoulfriends - 10.18 ★★

5. Birthday 4 - Read book/s where all author's initials OR first letter/s of all word/s in title found in PICK A SHELF
✔🔹initials KH - Cars, Coffee, and a Slightly Used Casket - 10.12 ★★★
✔🔹title CFH - Christmas from Hell - 12.18 ★★★★

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
September - December 2021

My September Plan (msg 26)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

September Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for September
✔🔹urban-fantasy - Wolf with Benefits - 09.30 ★★★★
✔🔹police-procedural - Connections in Death - 10.24 ★★★★
✔🔹kick-ass-heroines - Bayou Moon - 11.20 ★★★★

2. Recommendation 1 - Read a book listed/recommended "Based on Your Currently Reading Shelf"
✔🔹Leverage in Death - Tears of the Moon - 12.17 ★★★★

3. Last Month 1 - Read book/s from author/s you read last month
✔🔹Rebecca Zanetti - Mercury Striking - 09.19 ★★★★
✔🔹Carla Cassidy - Scene of the Crime: Bridgewater, Texas - 09.18 ★★★
✔🔹Jen Frederick - Unraveled - 09.20 ★★★★

4. New Release - Read book/s published in 2021
✔🔹The Belle and the Beard - 11.19 ★★★★
✔🔹The Forever Girl - 11.14 ★★★★

5. TBR 2 - Read a book from 32 page on TBR
✔🔹Seduction of the Billionaire - 11.06 ★★★

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
July - December 2021

My July Plan (msg 44)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

July Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for July
✔🔹realistic-fiction - Tweet Cute - 08.29 ★★★★
✔🔹alternative-history - Blameless - 07.11 ★★★★
✔🔹movies - Pride and Prejudice - 07.16 ★★★★

2. Last Month 1 - Read book/s from author/s you read last month
✔🔹Harkness, Deborah - The Book of Life - 07.29 ★★★

3. TBR 1 - Read random pick from your TBR
✔🔹Wreck Me - 09.03 ★★★

4. Recommendation 2 -Read one of the books recommended to you by a GR friend
✔🔹Kai - The Royal Treatment - 11.22 ★★★

5. Owned - Read book/s you owned (physically or digitally) by June 30, 2021
✔🔹Needing Nicole - 07.24★★★
✔🔹Lover at Last - 07.05 ★★★★
✔🔹30 Pieces of Silver - 10.09 ★★★★
✔🔹Just Once More - 07.22 ★★★★

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
April - December 2021

My April Plan (msg 29)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

April Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for April
✔🔹favorites - Room for You - 04.01 ★★★★
✔🔹alternate-history - Changeless - 05.31 ★★★★
✔🔹1990s - Desert Rose - 10.21 ★★★★

2. Pick-a-Shelf 4 - Our gift to you: Read Any Book you want to!
✔🔹Evening Stars - 04.02 ★★★★
✔🔹Meeting Mr. Write - 04.04 ★★★
✔🔹On the Steamy Side - 04.06 ★★★★
✔🔹Beautiful Stranger - 04.07 ★★★★

3. Crossing Borders 2 - Read book/s originally published in a language that is not your native tongue
✔🔹french - The Phantom of the Opera - 06.30 ★★★

4. Pick-a-Shelf 3 - Pick a PAS buddy and read book/s from their shelf
✔🔹Lusie - The Other Miss Bridgerton - 06.14 ★★★★

5. Recommendation 4 - Go to What Should I Read Next, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended
✔🔹Marriage of Incovenience - Lady Luck - 07.15 ★★★★

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
August - December 2021

My August Plan (msg 24)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

August Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for August
✔🔹summer-reads - The Soulmate Equation - 09.04 ★★★★
✔🔹recommendations - Fighting Silence - 08.13 ★★★★
✔🔹from-the-library - The Awakening- 08.15 ★★★★

2. Pick-a-Shelf 1 - Read for another PAS challenge
✔🔹Moving Mountain - The Reality of Everything - 10.05 ★★★★

3. Recommendation 3 - Go to Which Book and read one of the books listed/recommended
✔🔹happy - Family Trust - 11.03 ★★★

4. Last Month 2 - Read book/s from series you read last month
✔🔹Cantrelle Family - Embracing Elise - 09.12 ★★★
✔🔹Rainshadow - Rain Shadow - 10.26 ★★★
✔🔹Nordic Lights - Nordic Bound - 10.30 ★★★

5. Crossing Borders 1 - Read book/s set in continent/s away from the one you're living in
✔🔹Africa - Tropical Heat - 08.07 ★★★★
✔🔹United Kingdom - It's Just Turbulence - 08.08 ★★★

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
June - December 2021

My June Plan (msg 25)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

June Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for June
✔🔹chick-lit - Faking It - 10.13 ★★★★
✔🔹must-read - Blood Bound - 06.07 ★★★★
✔🔹southern - Bones of a Feather - 06.22 ★★★★

2. New Release - Read book/s published in 2021
✔🔹A Good Day for Chardonnay - 08.07 ★★★★
✔🔹Marrying Mr. Wrong - 07.19 ★★★★

3. Pick-a-Shelf 4 - Our gift to you: Read Any Book you want to!
✔🔹Want You to Want Me - 06.03 ★★★★
✔🔹Trouble After Dark - 06.19 ★★★★
✔🔹On the Rocks - 09.22 ★★★★

4. Last Month 4 - Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors"
✔🔹Elisabeth Naughton - Gena Showalter - Enslave Me Sweetly - 09.05 ★★★★

5. Pick-a-Shelf 1 - Read for another PAS challenge
✔🔹Trim that TBR - Sacred Evil - 09.18 ★★★

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
March - December 2021

My March Plan (msg 39)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

March Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for March
✔🔹mystery - Secrets in Death - 03.07 ★★★★
✔🔹mystery - 4th of July - 03.13 ★★★★
✔🔹dystopia - Beyond Addiction - 03.31 ★★★★

2. Recommendation 2 - Read one of the books recommended to you by a GR friend
✔🔹Raine - Making Her His - 10.03 ★★★

3. Borrowed - Read book/s you borrowed
✔🔹KU - Settling the Score - 03.12 ★★★★

4. Last Month 2 - Read book/s from series you read last month
✔🔹Tracers - Unstoppable - 04.06 ★★★
✔🔹Bayview Heights - Between Two Worlds - 09.15 ★★★
✔🔹Rainshadow 3 - Rain Shadow - 07.01 ★★★

5. Recent Release - Read book/s published in 2020
✔🔹published Mar 2020 - Your French Kisses - 03.09 ★★★
✔🔹published June 2020 - The Summer Deal - 03.23 ★★★★

Let's Book It! (2021)
January - December 2021 -- COMPLETED

My July Plan (msg 44)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

July Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for July
✔🔹realistic-fiction - Tweet Cute - 08.29 ★★★★
✔🔹alternative-history - Blameless - 07.11 ★★★★
✔🔹movies - Pride and Prejudice - 07.16 ★★★★

2. Last Month 1 - Read book/s from author/s you read last month
✔🔹Harkness, Deborah - The Book of Life - 07.29 ★★★

3. TBR 1 - Read random pick from your TBR
✔🔹Wreck Me - 09.03 ★★★

4. Recommendation 2 -Read one of the books recommended to you by a GR friend
✔🔹Kai - The Royal Treatment - 11.22 ★★★

5. Owned - Read book/s you owned (physically or digitally) by June 30, 2021
✔🔹Lady Luck - 07.15 ★★★★
✔🔹Lover at Last - 07.05 ★★★★
✔🔹30 Pieces of Silver - 10.09 ★★★★
✔🔹Just Once More - 07.22 ★★★★

Let's Book It! (2021) -- COMPLETE
December 2021

My December Plan (msg 19)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Complete plan

December Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for December
✔🔹contemporary-fiction - Every Time We Fall In Love - 12.04 ★★★★
✔🔹suspense - Cold Pursuit - 12.10 ★★★★
✔🔹fantasy - Rebel's Karma - 12.22 ★★★★

2. New Release - Read book/s published in 2021
✔🔹Jan 2021 - The Sweetest Fix - 12.23 ★★★★

3. Owned - Read book/s you owned (physically or digitally) by 11/30/21
✔🔹acquired May 2014 - Home For Christmas - 12.12 ★★★
✔🔹acquired April 2021 - Zane - 12.27 ★★★
✔🔹acquired Jan 2015 - The Questioning Miss Quinton - 12.25 ★★★
✔🔹acquired Aug 2021 - Courted by Karma - 12.29 ★★★★

4. Pick-a-Shelf 1 - Read for another PAS challenge
✔🔹Seriously Serial challenge - Behind a Texas Badge - 12.22 ★★★

5. Pick-a-Shelf 4 - Our gift to you: Read Any Book you want to!
✔🔹Vampire - 12.02 ★★★★

A little late but I did get one read this month!


Book: Bayou Moon - 11.20 ★★★★
# Tags: 10

Review:
I like this series, not as much as the Kate Daniels series, but Ilona Andrews creates some crazy worlds! I'm enjoying this one though I felt minimal connection to the first book. But that may have been by design.

Challenges: September Let's Book It
Nomination: shapeshifters

Roll 38: Round 6
Due by: 12.20
Completed: 12.30
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 4 + 1 => 5
Timestamp: 11.22; 4:23 pm US ET
Square: P: Kvothe’s Rooms
Task: author initials or title words first letters in place name
Book: Courted by Karma
How fits: author initials in place name

Let's Book It! (2021)
November - December 2021

My November Plan (msg 20)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Complete plan

November Tasks:

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for November
✔🔹historical-fiction - The Governess Game - 11.06 ★★★★
✔🔹sequels - Law Man - 12.09 ★★★★
✔🔹sequels - Since I Fell for You - 11.04 ★★★★

2. Last Month 4 - Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors"
✔🔹Alexandra Ivy - Rebecca Zanetti - Vampire
✔🔹Lauren Blakely - Vi Keeland/Penelope Ward - Not Pretending Anymore - 11.29 ★★★★
✔🔹Samantha Chase - Jane Porter - Christmas at Copper Mountain - 12.26 ★★★

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2 - Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
✔🔹Getting Played - 12.31 ★★★★

4. Recommendation 4 - Go to whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended
✔🔹The Will - The Wall of Winnipeg and Me - 12.13 ★★★★

5. Recent Release - Read book/s published in 2020
✔🔹The Somerset Girls - 12.19 ★★★★
✔🔹When You Kiss Me - 12.07 ★★★★

I'll for be reading Bayou Moon and possibly Tears of the Moon or Midnight Marked

Roll 37: Round 6
Due by: 12.04
Completed: 12.31
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 1 + 6 => 7
Timestamp: 11.06; 7:08 pm US ET
Square: S: A Gift of Patronage => Roll 11 => short-stories
Task: read a book tagged short stories
Book: Crushing on Him
How fits: tagged 7 times

Roll 36: Round 6
Due by: 11.30
Completed: 11.05
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 5 + 6 => 11
Timestamp: 11.02; 9:55 am US ET
Square: P: Ademre - Haert
Task: author initials or title words first letters in place name
Book: Hang Tough
How fits: title letters H-T in property name

Roll 35: Round 6
Due by: 11.18
Completed:
Rating:

Roll: 3 + 1 => 4
Timestamp: 10.21; 8:38 am US ET
Square: The Open Road (free parking)
Task: Read a "Random" book from your Bookopoly Shelf
Book: Snapped
How fits: top of list when randomized

Roll 34: Round 6
Due by: 11.15
Completed: 10.20
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 3 + 4 => 7
Timestamp: 10.18; 8:45 am US ET
Square: P: The University – The Artificery
Task: author initials or title words first letters in place name
Book: Always Faithful
How fits: title letters A-F in property name

Roll 33: Round 6
Due by: 11.14
Completed: 10.17
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 5 + 1 => 6
Timestamp: 10.17; 7:34 am US ET
Square: C: Chance => 7 => 2 spaces => P: Tarbean - Hillside
Task: author initials or title words first letters in place name
Book: The Evil Inside
How fits: title letters T-E-I in property name