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

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

LOST and FOUND
October - December 2021

My LOST and FOUND 2021 Challenge (msg 6)

Three (3) must be your oldest or LOST books. Use conditions 1 & 3 for this task.

Three (3) must be your newest books since finishing LOST 2021, that is your FOUND books. Use conditions 2 & 4 for this one

For the other four (4), you may choose any of the listed conditions.

LOST FINISH DATE - 10.10

LOST Books: LOST author or oldest on TBR (conditions 1&3)

✔condition 1: Tori Scott | pubbed Nov 2013 | Between Lonesome and Texas - 10.23 ★★★
✔condition 1: Tori Scott | pubbed Nov 2014 | Behind a Texas Badge - 12.22 ★★★
✔condition 1: Tori Scott | pubbed June 2014 | What a Cowgirl Wants - 12.30 ★★★

FOUND Books: FOUND author or newest on TBR (conditions 2&4)

✔condition 2: Lauren Blakely | added Sep 2014 | A Starstruck Kiss - 11.02 ★★★
✔condition 2: Lauren Blakely | added Jan 2017 | Sweet Desire - 11.02 ★★★
✔condition 4: added Dec 2021 | pubbed Sep 2021 | Santa Claus Is Going To Town On Me - 12.27 ★★★★

LOST or FOUND Books: any of the listed conditions

condition 4: added Nov 2021 | pubbed Feb 2020 Betwixt
✔condition 3: added Mar 2013 | Romero - 11.07 ★★★
✔condition 4: added Nov 2021 | pubbed Jun 2021 | Crushing on Him - 12.30 ★★★★
condition 4: added Nov 2021 | pubbed Jan 2018 | Born of Embers

FOUND 2021
October - December 2021

My FOUND 2021 Challenge (msg 36)

1. added to your TBR in the past 6 months AND
2. were published prior to the date you completed LOST 2021 (part 1)

LOST FINISH DATE - 10.10



✔1: added July 2021 | pubbed Feb 2016 | The Wall of Winnipeg and Me - 12.13 ★★★★
✔2: added July 2021 | pubbed Feb 2002 | The Royal Treatment - 11.22 ★★★★
✔3: added Aug 2021 | pubbed April 2021 | The Belle and the Beard - 11.19 ★★★★
✔4: added Aug 2021 | pubbed Mar 1999 | Alison Wonderland - 12.05 ★★
✔5: added Oct 2021 | pubbed Mar 2018 | Wanderlust - 10.28 ★★★★
✔6: added April 2021 | pubbed March 2014 | Goons 'n' Roses - 11.17 ★★★
✔7: added Aug 2021 | pubbed Jan 2003 | Family Trust - 11.03 ★★★
✔8: added Aug 2021 | pubbed Sep 2019 | The Christmas Holiday - 12.31 ★★★★
✔9: added Nov 2021 | pubbed April 2021 | Not Pretending Anymore - 11.29 ★★★★
✔10: added Nov 2021 | pubbed Jan 2021 | The Sweetest Fix - 12.23 ★★★★

Finally finished!! Fits and starts but made a concerted effort to get done this month :-)

Updated post: My LOST 2021 Challenge (msg 98)

I have a couple of options for this month if I can get to them.


The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer

The Questioning Miss Quinton by Kasey Michaels
This one is only tagged once but I think these old regencies by Ms Michaels might be inching themselves toward classic - in the way of 'old skool' historicals are indicative of the time period they were written. Maybe. Or maybe that's wishful thinking on my part so I can say I read one :-)

Meg wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "Hi all - I have landed on The Waystone Inn Tavern - May I have 3 choices please?
LaurLa's Bookopoly Shelf"

These sound fun laurla...
The Trouble with Texas Cowboys
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Thanks!! Going to go with Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend

Roll 32: Round 5
Due by: 11.06
Completed: 10.30
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 4 + 2 => 6
Timestamp: 10.09; 7:39 pm US ET
Square: P: Bast’s Rooms
Task: author initial or title word first letters in place name
Book: Love Me If You Dare
How fits: author initials T-B in property name

Roll 31: Round 5
Due by: 11.06
Completed: 10.16
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 6 + 1 => 7
Timestamp: 10.09; 7:32 pm US ET
Square: U: The Waystone Inn Tavern - Book Request
Task: n/a
Book: Selkies Are a Girl’s Best Friend
How fits: recommended by Meg

Hi all - I have landed on The Waystone Inn Tavern - May I have 3 choices please?
LaurLa's Bookopoly Shelf

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 ★★★★

Roll 30: Round 5
Due by: 10.21
Completed: 10.09
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 1 + 6 => 7
Timestamp: 09.23; 11:08 am US ET
Square: S: Tailor Shoppe => Roll 6 => mystery
Task: read a book tagged mystery
Book: 30 Pieces of Silver
How fits: MPG mystery

Roll 29: Round 5
Due by: 10.16
Completed: 09.22
Rating: ★★★

Roll: 1 + 1 => 2
Timestamp: 09.18; 3:21 pm US ET
Square: P: Trebon
Task: author initial or title word first letters in place name
Book: From Glowing Embers
How fits: author initials E-R in property name

Roll 28: Round 5
Due by: 10.11
Completed: 09.18
Rating: ★★★

Roll: 1 + 2 => 3
Timestamp: 09.13; 8:30 am US ET
Square: P: The University – The Archives
Task: author initial or title word first letters in place name
Book: Sacred Evil
How fits: title letters S-E in property name

Roll 27: Round 5
Due by: 10.07
Completed: 09.12
Rating: ★★★

Roll: 6 + 5 => 11
Timestamp: 09.09; 8:05 am US ET
Square: P: The University – The Artificery
Task: author initial or title word first letters in place name
Book: Embracing Elise
How fits: title letters E-E in property name

Meg wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "Hello - I have landed on U: The Half-Mast Tavern - may I have 3 picks please?

LaurLa's Bookopoly Shelf"

Here you go, I've chosen your....
Shortest book - [book:Studly Period|390770..."

thanks! I'm going with the shortest!! ;-)

Hello - I have landed on U: The Half-Mast Tavern - may I have 3 picks please?

LaurLa's Bookopoly Shelf

Roll 26: Round 5
Due by: 10.05
Completed: 09.09
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 3 + 3 => 6
Timestamp: 09.07; 8:12 pm US ET
Square: U: The Half-Mast Tavern - Book Request
Task: n/a
Book: Studly Period
How fits: recommended by Meg

Roll 25: Round 4
Due by: 10.05
Completed: 10.07
Rating: ★★★

Roll: 2 + 5 => 7
Timestamp: 09.07; 8:12 pm US ET
Square: P: The Ctaeh
Task: author initial or title word first letters in place name
Book: Honeymoon Hotel
How fits: title letters H-H in property name

Roll 24: Round 4
Due by: 10.03
Completed: 09.06
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 1 + 2 => 3
Timestamp: 09.05; 10:01 am US ET
Square: P: Vashet’s Quarters
Task: author initial or title word first letters in place name
Book: Victorious
How fits: title letter V in property name

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)
January - December 2021 -- COMPLETED

My January Plan (msg 33)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
January Plan: Complete plan

January Tasks

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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for January
✔🔹Magic - Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues - 01.01 ★★★★
✔🔹Read in 2017 - When Snow Falls - 01.05 ★★★★
✔🔹Sports - Chasing Stanley - 01.09 ★★★

2. Crossing Borders 2 - Read book originally published in a language not your native tongue
✔🔹french - The Library of Unrequited Love - 04.08 ★★★

3. Owned - Read book/s you owned (physically or digitally) by December 31, 2020
✔🔹purchased Mar 2013 - Tell Me No Lies - 01.10 ★★★
✔🔹purchased Aug 2013 - First Exposure - 01.16 ★★★
✔🔹purchased Dec 2014 - When You Were Mine - 01.10 ★★★

4. Pick-a-Shelf 3 - Pick a PAS buddy and read book/s from their shelf
✔🔹Snowtulip - Guilty Pleasures - 03.28 ★★★★
✔🔹Kristina Simon - Untraceable - 01.30 ★★★★

5. Last Month 3 - Pick your best read from last month and read from Readers Also Enjoyed... list
✔🔹Almost Just Friends - Sisters by Choice - 08.31 ★★★★