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

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

I didn't get such a good start for the month - only 5. But I still have 11 months to finish!

Susan wrote: "Oops. I almost never bother putting books on my "Currently Reading" shelf. I guess I'll have to do that in February."

I don't do this either and when I did add one, it didn't pop up in the recommendations.

Can I use the shelf I create this month with the books I am planning to read that month?

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

My February Plan (msg 31)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan

February Tasks:

🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹

1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for February
✔🔹series - Always Been Mine - 03.02 ★★★
✔🔹fantasy - The Darkest King - 02.07 ★★★★
✔🔹series - Bound By Darkness - 02.12 ★★★★

2. Crossing Borders 1 - Read book/s set in continent/s away from the one you're living in
✔🔹europe - Secret Nights - 02.03 ★★★★
✔🔹europe - Secret Seduction - 02.13 ★★★
✔🔹europe - R Is for Rebel - 02.28 ★★★

3. Recommendation 1 - Read a book listed/recommended "Based on Your Currently Reading Shelf"
✔🔹from currently reading shelf - The Hookup - 02.28 ★★★★

4. TBR 2 - Read a book from your total To Read pages dived by 2
✔🔹current TBR pg 8 - Rain Shadow - 02.13 ★★★
✔🔹current TBR pg 8 - A Cold Dark Place - 06.11 ★★★★

5. Pick-a-Shelf 2 - Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
✔🔹added 10/23/2020 - On the Edge - 04.04 ★★★★

I'm going to read Secret Seduction It only has one tag for Greece but it's set in and around Athens, so I'll go for it. It's my normal romance genre read, so hopefully I'll like it.

Joanna wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "Hello! I have landed on Monoploy Rail on The World board - May I have 3 choices please?
LaurLa's Bookopoly Shelf"

How about:

A Discovery of Witches - I devoured this..."

Thanks Joanna! I'll go with A Discovery of Witches - I need the push!

Roll 10: Round 2
Due by: 02.19
Completed: 03.28
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 2 + 6 => 8
Timestamp: 01.22; 8:59 am US EST
Square: C: Chance => Roll 6 => Advance to Go & travel to another Board => The World => Roll 6 => U: Monopoly Rail - Book Request
Task: n/a
Book: A Discovery of Witches
How fits: picked by Joanna 01.22; 10;34 am US EST

Hello! I have landed on Monoploy Rail on The World board - May I have 3 choices please?
LaurLa's Bookopoly Shelf

Book: Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues - 01.01 ★★★★
# Tags: 5



Review: This was short and sweet focusing on the tree nymph main character, which was an interesting being I've not read about before. The sheriff in town is the dragon character, along with many of the business owners, as you would expect with dragons, hording wealth and power. It didn't advance the overall series story arc by much but did keep us connected to the main players.

Challenges: Seriously Serial '21

Nomination: supernatural

Tien wrote: "Oooh! I like this ambition ;)
And the cheekyness! lol"

Who me???

10 books isn't much for me... unless the tasks don't match up for what I want or need to read elsewhere ;-)

If anyone is looking for lighter fair for dragons, How to Date Your Dragon is a fun, easy read. I love Molly Harper's quirky characters. I've read one of the novellas for this month - although it doesn't focus on a dragon MC, dragon characters are part of all of the books in the Mystic Bayou series.

Another UF series based on dragons that I like is Heartstrikers with the first being Nice Dragons Finish Last.

And I always recommend Dragon Bound and Elder Races as others have!

Besides the novella I already read, I'll probably read Stop Dragon My Heart Around because it's short and I want to get it off my TBR :-)

Well, didn't get that last Found book read, but lots of Lost books done!
Updated post: My LOSY and FOUND 2020 Challenge (msg 12)

Managed to read all my Found books!
Updated post: My FOUND 2020 Challenge (msg 58)

Unfortunately the closest I got was a science teacher MC :-( Maybe next time around...

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

My January Plan (msg 33)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
January Plan: Complete plan

January Tasks

🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹

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 ★★★★

I'm diving in!! I think I'll go for 10 books a month. That worries me when it comes to December since I'll only the one month to finish, but maybe the task-makers will go easy on us!

Trim That TBR
January - December 2021

My Trim That TBR Challenge (msg 41)


1. How many?!?! Look at the total number of your TBR, take the last digit and read that many books off your TBR.

TBR = 4856
✔🔹Dagger's Edge - 10.23 ★★★★
✔🔹30 Pieces of Silver - 10.09 ★★★★
✔🔹A Cold Dark Place - 06.11 ★★★★
✔🔹Leverage in Death - 10.11 ★★★★
✔🔹Sacred Evil - 09.18 ★★★
✔🔹Honeymoon Hotel - 10.08 ★★★

2. Share the love Sort your TBR by date added and read:

a. Books with the most recent date
✔🔹Dec 2020 - Selkies Are a Girl’s Best Friend - 10.16 ★★★★
✔🔹Dec 2020 - His Deepest Desire - 10.16 ★★★
✔🔹Dec 2020 - Blood Bound - 06.07 ★★★★
b. Books with the oldest date
✔🔹Feb 2013 - A Son - 01.25 ★★★
✔🔹Feb 2013 - A Child's Heart - 05.14 ★★★
✔🔹Feb 2013 - Campaign - 07.13 ★★★

3. Monstrosity Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR

✔🔹643 pp - Lady Luck - 07.15 ★★★★

4. Catch Up Read that last book in the series!

✔🔹Return to Redemption #6 - Don't Break My Heart - 09.28 ★★★
✔🔹FIght & Glory #5 - The Reality of Everything - 10.05 ★★★★
✔🔹Lady Tech #3 - Always Faithful - 10.20 ★★★★
✔🔹Nauti Series #9 - Nauti Angel - 05.02 ★★★★
✔🔹Rakes #3 - Secret Nights - 02.03 ★★★
✔🔹Wilde Series #5 - Wilde for Him - 04.11 ★★★

Moving Mountain - 2021
January - December 2021

My Moving Mountain Challenge (msg 37)

Level: 52 Books | Books Read: 52



✔🔹Six of Clubs - Denise Grover Swank - Thirty and a Half Excuses - 03.20 ★★★
✔🔹Jack of Clubs - Claire Kingsley - Faking Ms. Right - 01.16 ★★★★
✔🔹Four of Spades - Tessa Dare - The Duchess Deal - 04.20 ★★★★
✔🔹Ten of Hearts - Rosalind James - Just Not Mine - 01.30 ★★★★
✔🔹Black Joker - Lisa Kleypas - It Happened One Autumn - 07.27 ★★★★
✔🔹Ace of Hearts - Toni Anderson - A Cold Dark Place - 06.11 ★★★★
✔🔹Six of Spades - Sarah Fine - Fated - 04.10 ★★★★
✔🔹Five of Diamonds - Louisa Edwards - On the Steamy Side - 04.06 ★★★★
✔🔹Two of Spades - Tessa Bailey - Risking it All - 04.11 ★★★★
✔🔹Ace of Diamonds - Ilona Andrews - On the Edge - 04.04 ★★★★


✔🔹King of Diamonds - J.L. Mac - Wreck Me - 09.03 ★★★
✔🔹Five of Diamonds - J.R. Rain - Moon Dance - 03.26 ★★★★
✔🔹Seven of Clubs - Colleen Gleason - The Cards of Life and Death - 04.14 ★★★
✔🔹Six of Diamonds - Jill Sanders - Secret Seduction - 02.13 ★★★
✔🔹Six of Spades - Tori Scott - Beneath a Texas Star - 08.23 ★★★
✔🔹Five of Hearts - Mary Eason - Baptism by Blood - 05.09 ★★★
✔🔹King of Clubs - Anne McAllister - Last Year's Bride - 01.23 ★★★★
✔🔹Eight of Hearts - Molly Harper - Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues - 01.17 ★★★★
✔🔹Four of Diamonds - Jessica L. Degarmo - Historically Yours - 09.02 ★★★
✔🔹Eight of Spades - Teagan Hunter - I Wanna Text You Up - 06.27 ★★★★


✔🔹Four of Clubs - Carola Dunn - Requiem for a Mezzo - 08.18 ★★★
✔🔹Three of Hearts - Olivia Cunning - Lost in Paradise - 07.05 ★★★
✔🔹Ace of Hearts - Rachel Aaron - One Good Dragon Deserves Another - 10.26 ★★★★
✔🔹Jack of Clubs - Claire Kingsley - Marrying Mr. Wrong - 07.19 ★★★★
✔🔹Three of Hearts - Rose Pressey - Me and My Ghoulfriends - 10.18 ★★
✔🔹King of Clubs - Carolyn McCray - 30 Pieces of Silver - 10.09 ★★★★
✔🔹Four of Hearts - Mia Dymond - Leather, Lace and Rock-n-Roll - 11.24 ★★★
✔🔹Five of Spades - Tracy Ellen - Courted by Karma - 12.29 ★★★★
✔🔹Ten of Clubs - Brenda Jackson - Zane - 12.27 ★★★
✔🔹Jack of Hearts - Rena Koontz - Love's Secret Fire - 04.24 ★★★


✔🔹Three of Clubs - Carla Cassidy - Cowboy with a Cause - 02.14 ★★★
✔🔹Queen of Clubs - Eve Langlais - Already Freakn' Mated - 05.19 ★★★
✔🔹Nine of Clubs - Alexandra Ivy - Bound By Darkness - 02.12 ★★★
✔🔹Jack of Clubs - Claire Kingsley - Falling for My Enemy - 05.05 ★★★★
✔🔹Four of Spades - Violet Duke - Love, Diamonds, and Spades - 10.19 ★★★★
✔🔹Eight of Clubs - Debra Holland - Stormy Montana Sky - 05.26 ★★★
✔🔹Red Joker - Christie Ridgway - Keep On Loving You - 05.30 ★★★★
✔🔹Queen of Spades - Rebecca Yarros - The Reality of Everything - 10.05 ★★★★
✔🔹Black Joker - Gail Carriger - Changeless - 05.31 ★★★★
✔🔹Ten of Hearts - Rosalind James - Just Once More - 07.22 ★★★★
✔🔹Queen of Clubs - Christina Lauren - Beautiful Stranger - 04.07 ★★★★


✔🔹Ace of Diamonds - Ilona Andrews - Emerald Blaze - 01.17 ★★★★
✔🔹Eight of Diamonds - Laurell K. Hamilton - The Laughing Corpse - 07.25 ★★★
✔🔹Three of Clubs - Carla Cassidy - Confessing to the Cowboy - 08.25 ★★★
✔🔹Four of Hearts - MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unwed - 04.18 ★★★
✔🔹Jack of Clubs - Claire Kingsley - Everly Dalton's Dating Disasters - 01.15 ★★★★
✔🔹Seven of Diamonds - Hope Tarr - Operation Cinderella - 09.10 ★★★
✔🔹Two of Clubs - Barbara Bretton - Honeymoon Hotel - 10.08 ★★★
✔🔹King of Diamonds - Julie Miller - Always Faithful - 10.20 ★★★★
✔🔹Seven of Diamonds - Laura Taylor - Desert Rose - 10.21 ★★★★
✔🔹Ten of Spades - Tawny Weber - Sex, Lies and Valentines - 08.16 ★★★
✔🔹Five of Hearts - Ryan Ringbloom - Whiskey Chick - 01.16 ★★★★

Seriously Serial '21
January - June 2021

My Seriously Serial '21 Challenge (msg 27)

🔹1: Accidentally Yours #1 - Accidentally in Love with...a God? - 01.03 ★★★


🔹2: Whiskey Creek #2 - When Snow Falls - 01.05 ★★★★


🔹3: Rakes #3 - Secret Nights - 02.03 ★★★


🔹4: Tommy and Tuppence #4 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs - 01.08 ★★★


🔹5: New York Blades #5 - Chasing Stanley - 01.09 ★★★


🔹6: Escape to New Zealand #6 - Just Not Mine - 01.30 ★★★★


🔹7: Shopaholic #7 - Shopaholic to the Stars - 01.31 ★★★


🔹8: Great Wedding Getaway #8 - Last Year's Bride - 01.23 ★★★


🔹9: Lexi Graves #9 - A Few Good Women - 04.17 ★★★


🔹10: Black Dagger Brotherhood #10 - Lover Reborn - 04.27 ★★★★


🔹11: T-FLAC #11 - White Heat - 01.22 ★★★★


🔹12: #44 [4+4=8] + #4
In Death #44 - Echoes in Death - 01.143 ★★★★
Hart's Boardwalk #4 - The Truest Thing - 02.03 ★★★★


🔹13: #5 + #8
Hidden Legacy #5 - Emerald Blaze - 01.17 ★★★★
Guardians of Eternity #8 - Bound By Darkness - 02.12 ★★★


🔹14: #7 + #3 + #4:
Red Team #7 - Razed Glory - 03.05 ★★★★
Cowboy Cafe #3 - Cowboy with a Cause - 02.14 ★★★
Modern Fairytale #4 - Dark Sexy Knight - 02.27 ★★★★


🔹15: Lords of the Underworld #15 - The Darkest King - 02.07 ★★★★


🔹16: Fatal #16 - Fatal Fraud - 02.01 ★★★★


🔹17: #5 + #3 + #9
River City #5 - A Son - 01.25 ★★★
Las Vegas Dragons #3 - Dragon Her Back - 02.18 ★★★
Nauti Series #9 - Nauti Angel - 05.02 ★★★★


🔹18: Gansett Island #18 - Yours After Dark - 03.16 ★★★★


🔹19: Gansett Island #19 - Trouble After Dark - 06.19 ★★★★


🔹20: #5 + #5 + #5 + #5
Boyfriend Material #5 - Your French Kisses - 03.09 ★★★
Once Upon a Wedding #5 - The Next Best Bride - 03.21 ★★★
Wildstone #5 - The Summer Deal - 03.23 ★★★★
Beyond #5 - Beyond Addiction - 03.31 ★★★★


🔹21: #2 + #8 + #11
Whiskey #2 - Whiskey Chick - 01.16 ★★★★
Heartbreaker Bay #8 - Wrapped Up in You - 06.17 ★★★★
Sarah Booth Delaney #11 - Bones of a Feather - 06.22 ★★★★

LOST 2021
January - December 2021

My LOST 2021 Challenge (msg 98)



✔🔹1: added July 2013 - A Son - 01.25 ★★★
✔🔹2: added April 2014 - Flirting with Disaster - 04.29 ★★★★
✔🔹3: added July 2014 - Miracle Pie - 05.29 ★★★
✔🔹4: added July 2014 - Love's Wild Desire - 05.03 ★★★
✔🔹5: added April 2013 - Wilde for Him - 04.11 ★★★
✔🔹6: added April 2013 - Coming Home - 04.13 ★★★★
✔🔹7: added May 2013 - Honeymoon Hotel - 10.08 ★★★
✔🔹8: added March 2013 - More Than Memories - 10.10 ★★★
✔🔹9: added July 2013 - More Than a Promise - 10.01 ★★★
✔🔹10: added July 2014 - Beneath a Texas Star - 08.23 ★★★

Roll 9: Round 2
Due by: 01.11
Completed:
Rating:

Roll: 4 + 4 => 8
Timestamp: 12.24; 8:53 m US EST
Square: S: Tailor Shoppe => Roll 9 => historical-fiction
Task: read a book tagged historical-fiction
Book: Love's Wild Desire
How fits: tagged HF 4 times