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

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

Almost hit my guess on the head. I figured it would take me 40 spins... 41 was the magic number! although I hit 3 LOTs and 2 bankruptcies, so technically it will take me 36 books to read 12,114 pages :-o

My worst shelf was Fabulist - had to replace that one. I lucked out on the Elderly shelf... was glad I hit it only once. Also lucked out on Pastiche since I hit it twice and it so happened someone put the entire Lunar Chronicles series on it. Who-dun-it and Kick-ass-heroines was harder than I expected considering my reading preferences but so many of the series I'm reading had only the first or second book tagged and not the book I'm on in the series :-(

Had to dig deep into the TBR for some of these which I guess is the point... so well done, mods!! Looking forward to the actual reading now! But don't expect me to be the first to finish and unlock Round 2 with 39 books to read!

Wheel of Bookshelves (2018)
January - December 2018

🌸Goals: Total Pages = 110,136

🌸Goal for Round 1: 11% = 12,114 pages

🌸41 Spins = 12,307 = Goal🌸
Completed: 39 of 39 books

Round 1 Books (msg 45)


✔Spin 1: lady-detective
🌸Creation in Death - J.D. Robb ~ 1 tag ~ 364 pgs
🌸Read: 04.22 ★★★★
✔Spin 2: I-wanna-know-what-love-is
🌸Dark Lover - J.R. Ward ~ 1 tag ~ 432 pgs
🌸Read: 02.13 ★★★★
✔Spin 3: traveling-road-trips
🌸It Had to Be Him - Tamra Bauman ~ 1 tag ~ 287 pgs
🌸Read: 02.11 ★★★
✔Spin 4: other-countries
🌸Caught Up in Us - Lauren Blakley ~ 1 tag ~ 260 pgs
🌸Read: 02.19 ★★★
✔Spin 5: pastiche
🌸Scarlet - Mariss Meyer ~ 1 tag ~ 464 pgs
🌸Read: 04.06 ★★★★
✔Spin 6: Lose a Turn
🌸Love at First Flight - Marie Force ~ 0 tags ~ 0 pgs
🌸Read: 02.26 ★★★★
✔Spin 7: who-dun-it
🌸Them Bones - Carolyn Haines ~ 1 tag ~ 318 pgs
🌸Read: 02.18 ★★★★
✔Spin 8: every-written-word
🌸One for the Money - Janet Evanovich ~ 1 tag ~ 352 pgs
🌸Read: 01.03 ★★★★
✔Spin 9: one-hit-wonders
🌸Tempting Fate - Alissa Johnson ~ 1 tag ~ 322 pgs
🌸Read: 05.26 ★★★★
✔Spin 10: bankrupt (-10%)
🌸No book ~ 0 tags ~ negative 280 pgs

🌸10 Spins = 2,519 pages🌸



✔Spin 11: I-wanna-know-what-love-is
🌸Too Much Temptation - Lori Foster ~ 1 tag ~ 321 pgs
🌸Read: 05.06 ★★★★
✔Spin 12: doorstoppers
🌸Winter - Marissa Meyer ~ 1 tag ~ 833 pgs
🌸Read: 07.29 ★★★★
✔Spin 13: geek
🌸The Geek Girl and the Scandalous Earl - Gina Lamm ~ 2 tags ~ 349 pgs
🌸Read: 04.04 ★★
✔Spin 14: kick-ass-heroines
🌸Magic Bleeds - Ilona Andrews ~ 31 tags ~ 388 pgs
🌸Read: 02.11 ★★★★★
✔Spin 15: lady-detective
🌸New Orleans Mourning - Julie Smith ~ 1 tag ~ 351 pgs
🌸Read: 03.21 ★★★
✔Spin 16: who-dun-it
🌸Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich ~ 2 tags ~ 336 pgs
🌸Read: 03.13 ★★★
✔Spin 17: one-hit-wonders
🌸Vision in White - Nora Roberts ~ 1 tag ~ 325 pgs
🌸Read: 03.02 ★★★★
✔Spin 18: bankrupt (-10%)
🌸No book ~ 0 tags ~ negative 542 pgs
✔Spin 19: kick-ass-heroines
🌸Third Grave Dead Ahead - Darynda Jones ~ 18 tags ~ 330 pgs
🌸Read: 02.22 ★★★★
✔Spin 20: I-wanna-know-what-love-is
🌸Pleasure of a Dark Prince - Kresley Cole ~ 1 tag ~ 452 pgs
🌸Read: 04.14 ★★★★

🌸20 Spins = 5,662 pages🌸



✔Spin 21: Lose a Turn
🌸Take Me Tonight ~ 0 tags ~ 0 pgs
🌸Read: 01.21 ★★★★
✔Spin 22: I-wanna-know-what-love-is
🌸Demon from the Dark - Kresley Cole ~ 1 tag ~ 384 pgs
🌸Read: 06.03 ★★★★
✔Spin 23: elderly
🌸First Star I See Tonight - Susan Elizabeth Phillips ~ 1 tag ~ 389 pgs
🌸Read: 05.20 ★★★★
✔Spin 24: traveling-road-trips
🌸The Cove - Catherine Coulter ~ 1 tag ~ 388 pgs
🌸Read: 04.22 ★★★
✔Spin 25: kick-ass-heroines
🌸Endgame - Ann Aguirre ~ 5 tags ~ 352 pgs
🌸Read: 03.02 ★★★★
✔Spin 26: Lose a Turn
🌸It's In His Kiss - Julia Quinn ~ 0 tags ~ 0 pgs
🌸Read: 07.30 ★★★★
✔Spin 27: who-dun-it
🌸Body Double - Tess Gerritsen ~ 1 tag ~ 416 pgs
🌸Read: 07.22 ★★★★
✔Spin 28: necromancer
🌸Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - Darynda Jones ~ 16 tags ~ 368 pgs
🌸Read: 03.09 ★★★★
✔Spin 29: I-wanna-know-what-love-is
🌸What the Lady Wants - Jennifer Crusie ~ 1 tag ~ 236 pgs
🌸Read: 04.18 ★★★★★
✔Spin 30: love-from-afar
🌸When He Was Wicked - Julia Quinn ~ 1 tag ~ 390 pgs
🌸Read: 05.10 ★★★★

🌸30 Spins = 8,585 pages🌸



✔Spin 31: kick-ass-heroines
🌸Wild Things - Chloe Neill ~ 10 tags ~ 368 pgs
🌸Read: 02.17 ★★★★
✔Spin 32: geek
🌸How to Date a Nerd - Cassie Mae ~ 5 tags ~ 260 pgs
🌸Read: 05.02 ★★★
✔Spin 33: pastiche
🌸Cress - Marissa Meyer ~ 1 tag ~ 560 pgs
🌸Read: 07.07 ★★★★
✔Spin 34: necromancer
🌸Fifth Grave Past the Light - Darynda Jones ~ 1 tag ~ 353 pgs
🌸Read: 03.14 ★★★★
✔Spin 35: I-wanna-know-what-love-is
🌸Strange Bedpersons - Jennifer Crusie ~ 1 tag ~ 256 pgs
🌸Read: 04.30 ★★★★
✔Spin 36: fabulist - replace with gilmor-girls
🌸Welcome to Last Chance - Hope Ramsey ~ 1 tag ~ 358 pgs
🌸Read: 05.09 ★★★★
✔Spin 37: kick-ass-heroines
🌸Born in Death - J.D. Robb ~ 3 tags ~ 364 pgs
🌸Read: 02.26 ★★★★
✔Spin 38: geek
🌸Getting Out of Hand - Erin Nicholas ~ 3 tags ~ 278 pgs
🌸Read: 04.28 ★★★★
✔Spin 39: love-from-afar
🌸Kidnapping His Bride - Karen Erickson ~ 1 tag ~ 202 pgs
🌸Read: 03.06 ★★★
✔Spin 40: one -pov
🌸Mystery Man - Kristen Ashley ~ 1 tag ~ 406 pgs
🌸Read: 04.08 ★★★★
✔Spin 41: one-hit-wonders
🌸Celtic Fire - Joy Nash ~ 1 tag ~ 317 pgs
🌸Read: 04.12 ★★★★

🌸41 Spins = 12,307 = Goal🌸

Hi Dee! Here are your picks :-)


Let's finish up the old in order to ring in the new year - 3 oldest on your TBR (Bookopoly TBR, that is).



Enjoy!!!

Roll 15: Round 3
Due by: 01.23
Completed: 12.30
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 1 + 4 => 5
Timestamp: 12.26; 7:55 pm US EST
Square: T: Big and Little
Task: Read a book where title contains one (1) word only
Book: Taz - Andrea Smith
Picked by & time: n/a

Roll 14: Round 3
Due by: 01.21
Completed: 12.26
Rating: ★★★★

Roll: 4 + 4 => 8
Timestamp: 12.24; 12:33 am US EST
Square: FREE PARKING
Task: Read a "Random" book from your Bookopoly Shelf
Book: Dead By Midnight - Pamela Clare
Picked by & time: n/a

Roll 13: Round 3
Due by: 01.20
Completed: 12.23
Rating: ★★1/2

Roll: 2 + 6 => 8
Timestamp: 12.23; 8:21 am US EST
Square: S: Lyn's Library
Task: Read from shelf which correspond to number rolled => Roll 9 => free
Book: A Cowboy for Christmas - Kristen James
Picked by & time: n/a

For you, Stacey!


D is for December
Deadly Fear
Hard Stick - Dover, L.P.
See You in My Dreams - Dee, Jess

Coralie wrote: "Hi LaurLa, I have landed on your property and would like three picks from my bookopoly shelf. Thank you."

Hi Coralie!! Enjoy!!

C is for Christmas :-)

Castle Gay
Foe - Coetzee, J.M.
Weaveworld - Clive Barker

Marina wrote: "Hi LaurLa! I landed on your property (and by the way, Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things is a wonderful book!) - can I have three picks from my shelf, please?"

Hi Marina! Hope you enjoy one of these:

C is for Christmas

The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories
The Invisible Library - Cogman, Genevieve
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow

Roll 12: Round 2
Due by: 01.17
Completed: 01.05
Rating: ★★★

Roll: 6 + 3 => 9
Timestamp: 12.20; 6:11 am US EST
Square: S: Bea's Bar
Task: Read from shelf which correspond to number rolled => Roll 9 => sports
Book: One Night of Scandal - Elle Kennedy
Picked by & time: n/a

Here is the link to Cover of Snow
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Welcome to Cover of Snow!! Hope I pick you something you love!!

Marina wrote: "Hi! I've landed on Cover of Snow. Could I have three picks from my Bookopoly shelf? Thanks!"

Here you go Marina:

Dhon Hiyala and Ali Fulhu
Reading the Ceiling
Bethany Bettany

Enjoy!!!

BTW, I just wanted to say that you guys do the mos interesting challenges!!!

Sign me up!

One question, if we finish the participation level that our TBR gives us, can we do the challenge again? Mind you, I'm asking this question before I have even calculated my level or seen what any kind of plan would look like, so the question may become moot once I start doing the maths ;-)

Okay, I think I might give this a try...


Total Pages = 110,136

Goal for Round 1: 11% = 12,114 pages
Goal for Round 2: 12% = 13,216 pages
Goal for Round 3: 13% = 14,318 pages
Goal for Round 4: 14% = 15,420 pages

Roll 11: Round 2
Due by: 01.11
Completed: 12.23
Rating: ★★★

Roll: 4 + 4 => 8
Timestamp: 12.15; 7:38 am US EST
Square: T: Pick-a-Shelf's 10th Anniversary
Task: 6. Read a book where initial letter of each word in title (ignore subtitle) is found in PICKASHELF.
Book: Songbird - Maya Banks
Picked by & time: n/a

LaurLa wrote: "I would like to purchase Cover of Snow. I will be reading Dating-ish"


Read: 12.15
Rating: 5 Stars
Review:
I gave this five stars and I could gush and gush but I won't. It's one of those books I just want take home, and hug it and pet it and tell it how much I love it, but I said I wouldn't gush, so. But I will say it was pretty much perfect. I mean, I wish the author let the MCs be together-together earlier in the storyline and you did kind of want to butt their heads together over their mutual fear of rejection, but the author did such a good job entertaining us with their platonic relationship that it made everything else okay. And it was entertaining with many LOL moments but also the building and building-up the relationship of the MCs was very good - and kept me up way too late in the wee hours - even though I knew how it would end, I just knew it would be awesome and yummy when they finally got it together so I couldn't make myself stop reading. We got to see our other favorite characters but they didn't play a big roll in this one. But it does wet your appetite for the next one...

Stacie wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "Hello Friend!!! I have landed on Dust with you - May I have 3 choices please?
LaurLa's Bookopoly Shelf"

My darling!!

[book:Haunted in Death|8..."

Seduction Game it is!!! Thanks :-)

I would like to purchase Cover of Snow. I will be reading Dating-ish