DECEMBER 2018: Dusty Bookshelf Challenge

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

DECEMBER 2018 Dusty Bookshelf Challenge:
🌸 LAST Shelf for 2018

Please post your shelves. NO COMMENTS in this thread please. After I post the pair, it will add a link to the shelf, and then you can add discussion comments.

How It Will Work:
1) Please only post no more than 10 books that you would like to read this month.
*minimum 4 books.

2) An assigned person will FIRST pick TWO BOOKS from your post series.

3) SECOND, the assigned person will recommend ONE MORE from a Genre of your choice.

4) You have one month: DECEMBER 2018 to try to read one of the chosen books. You can read ALL THREE if you would like (*if you don't read your book this month, it's okay because this challenge is for YOUR ENJOYMENT)

5) Please try to select for your pair ASAP as we all get excited and waiting is torture to some.


TIMELINE
NOVEMBER 14-20, 2018: Participants will Post their shelves
*If you do not list a shelf, I will not pair you with anyone
***Cut off on NOVEMBER 20

NOVEMBER 20-27: Pairs will be posted & then Selection of the books and posting it for the person you are choosing for
*Again, as I said earlier, please try to select for your pair ASAP.
***Cut off on NOVEMBER 27:

**NOVEMBER 28: Re-picks for those who didn’t get the pick

**MOD ASSIST: TCF Mods Trea, Denise & Lanelle are also around for assistance.

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[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

PARTICIPANTS
Ezinwanyi
Jenn
Connie
Lexi
Jammin Jenny
Brigia
VampAmber
Penumbra
Loriidae
Debbie
Damselflies
Avid Reader Geek Girl
Carrie
Denise
Karen♐
Tpagirl
Marty
☘KathyD☘
Katherine
Theo
Elizabeth
Chelle

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

PAIRS
☑ made a pick
☑ Katherine picks for Tpagirl
☑ Elizabeth picks for Karen♐
☑ Damselflies picks for Jenn
☑ Connie picks for ☘KathyD☘
☑ Karen♐ picks for Elizabeth
☑ Penumbra picks for Jammin Jenny
☑Avid Reader Geek Girl picks for VampAmber
☑ Jammin Jenny picks for Penumbra
☑ Brigia picks for Damselflies
☑ Chelle picks for Loriidae
☑ Theo picks for Carrie
☑ ☘KathyD☘ picks for Brigia
☑ Denise picks for Theo
☑ Lexi picks for Ezinwanyi
☑ Jenn picks for Denise
☑ VampAmber picks for Katherine
☑ Marty picks for Chelle
☑ Debbie picks for Avid Reader Geek Girl
☑ Tpagirl picks for Debbie
☑ Ezinwanyi picks for Marty
☑ Loriidae picks for Connie
☑ Carrie picks for Lexi

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

I picked for Marty: Bonus:
Lexi picked ☑ & Bonus:
Ezinwanyi's DECEMBER 2018 Bookshelf (view spoiler)[
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**Preferred Sub Genre: ** Romance (Angsty) ~ please pick something that's on audiobook


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[Jenn]

Jenn's December Dusty Bookself

Preferred genre of choice: Horror/thriller

I pick for Denise: & Bonus:
Damselflies picks for me: & Bonus:

[Connie]

Connie's DECEMBER 2018 Dusty Bookshelf



Like just about anything; prefer different things different days: mystery, character-driven literary fiction, YA, children's books, general non-fiction, memoir, family drama, and/or books with humor and/or romance in them.


Loriidae chose for me: and and bonuses: and Thank you!

I picked for Kathy D: and bonus


I've been slow. So far have read: Every Living Thing

[Lexi]

Lexi's December 2018 Dusty Bookshelf


Genre: Getting into thrillers but won't read sexual assault or serial killers of children

[Jammin Jenny]

Jammin Jenny's December 2018 Dusty Bookshelf



Genre: Romantic Suspense or Cozy Mystery

I picked for Penumbra and , and bonus .
Penumbra picked for me , and bonus pick

[Brigia]

Brigia's December Dusty Bookshelf

I chose for Damselflies: & Bonus
Kathy D chose for me: & Bonus




Bonus Genre: If you've read and liked one of this year's choice award nominees, I'd love that :-) if not, Young Adult or New Adult, please.

[VampAmber]

VampAmber's Dusty Bookshelf - December

I picked for Katherine: and plus
Avid Reader Geek Girl picked for me: and plus

My List:



Preferred Genres: Paranormal horror (fiction or nonfiction), Romance (no suspense, no erotica), M/M romance (still no suspense, but here erotica is okay), Young adult (romance, fantasy, sci-fi, or horror), Short story collections, Cozy mysteries (but only if it's the first in the series), Urban fantasy, Steampunk (something good for a newbie to the genre)

Nothing too long, no matter the genre (less than 300 pages is perfect).

[Penumbra]

Penumbra's December Dusty Bookshelf:



Genre Choice: M/M only in Holiday happiness :)


I pick for Jammin Jenny:

and Genre Choice: and

___ picks for me:

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Lorii's December Dusty Bookshelf

I have chosen the ten oldest books on my next in series shelf.

- - - - - - - - -

Preferred genre Urban Fantasy or lorii's urban fantasy shelf

Chelle picks & & recommends for me
I pick & and recommend or for Connie

[Debbie]

Debbie's Book shelf



I choose for Avid Reader and

[Damselflies]

Damselflies December Dusty Bookshelf



Preferred genre: Romance or something on my high on tbr shelf or a book you found 5* read I havent read yet

[Avid Reader and Geek Girl]

Avid's December 2018 DB



Genre of Choice: Contemporary YA available on audiobook (or a third from my shelf)

I choose & for Vamp Amber and recommend
Debbie chooses & and recommends for me

[Carrie]

Carrie's December DB



Preferred Genre: Fantasy, Historical fiction, YA, or a third or fourth book off my list or tbr.

I pick for , .& for Lexi

Theo picks for me: , &

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Denise's December Dusty Bookshelf



Genre of Choice: Holiday-themed M/M or F/F romance

I pick for Theo: &
Jenn picks for me: &

[Karen ♐]

Karen♐'s Dusty Bookshelf - December



Preferred Genre: Erotica, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary Romance

I pick and bonus: for Elizabeth
Elizabeth picks and bonus: for me

[Tpagirl Loves Romance]

tpagirl’s Dusty Bookshelf Dec 2018



Genre: contemporary romance prefer MC or erotica

I picked for Debbie: and and .

Katherine picked for me: and and

Completed:
1. Unbreakable, 12/11/18, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2. Wicked Whiskey Love, 12/28/18, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Marty]

Marty's December Dusty Bookshelf

I pick for Chelle: , &
Ezi picks for me: , , bonus &

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Preferred genres: Historical Fiction or Paranormal/Horror

[☘KathyD☘]

KathyD’s December Dusty Bookshelf


preferred genres (preferably a book that is on audio)
paranormal/erotica/contemporary

For Brigia, I chose: and . . . (bonus)
For me, XXX chose: < book 1 > and < book 2 > . . . < bonus > (bonus)

[Katherine]

Katherine's December Dusty Bookshelf



Preferred Genres: Christmas, Humor or Science Fiction.

I pick for Tpagirl
VampAmber picks for me: & &

[Theo]

Theo's December 2018 Dusty Bookshelf

Denise picked for me:
I picked for Carrie:

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Preferred Genre: Mystery (hide spoiler)]

[Elizabeth]

Elizabeth's December Bookshelf


Genre of choice:Classics, Modern Classics, maybe something you believe should be/will become a classic

Karen picked for me and . Bonus book: .

[Chelle_Rydz]

Chelle's December 2018 Dusty Bookshelf

Marty picks for me Escaping from Houdini, Becoming, and, as a bonus, The City & the City


For Loriidae I pick Throne of Jade and The Kingdom with a bonus book of The Good, the Bad, and the Undead


Bonus Recommendation - One of your favorite books of all time.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Marty's December Dusty Bookshelf

Happy Holidays, here are your picks: BONUS HF: PN:

[Penumbra]

I choose for Jammin Jenny:

and

I don't know much about cozy mysteries, but I hope these work:

Genre choices: and

[Lexi]

For Ezinwanyi:

Here are your two: and .

I do not read many romances and angst is my least favorite type but I recently enjoyed this one, though somewhat light on angst: Enjoy

[VampAmber]

Katherine wrote: "Katherine's December Dusty Bookshelf"

You had way too many great books to pick from, so I decided to just go with one of my favorite authors (Terry Pratchett) and picked , and one of my favorite Doctors (Eleven) and picked .

As for your genre pick, I went with Christmas and humor. Hopefully you haven't read this one yet, cuz I went with . I loved it when I read it, and he quickly became one of my favorite authors.

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Connie
I pick and (on my TBR - looking forward to seeing what you think.

My genre pick for you is mystery - something modern or an historical - I see you have read the first, (I am up to #10)

[Tpagirl Loves Romance]

Debbie

I pick: and .

Genre Pick: you didn’t list one so I went with a cozy mystery newer release that had a holiday theme with a 4+ rating since cozy mystery seemed to be one of your strong preferences. I picked: .

Enjoy!

[Katherine]

Tpagirl,

I've chosen for you:
&

Preferred Genre:

[Jammin Jenny]

Penumbra wrote: "I choose for Jammin Jenny:

and


Thank you Penumbra. I found the second one on KU and that works!

[Jammin Jenny]

Penumbra for you I pick and . For your bonus I pick .

[Carrie]

Lexi For you I have & . For your bonus

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Theo,

my picks for you: &

For your bonus, I'll give you a classic I loved:

[Brigia]

For Damselflies

Wow, so many of your books are on my shelves, too - that was a tough decision! :-)

I pick:
& Bonus: (because it's Romance, on your high on tbr shelf and was 5 stars for me!)

[Chelle_Rydz]

Loriidae wrote: "Lorii's December Dusty Bookshelf

I have chosen the ten oldest books on my next in series shelf...."

Loriidae I pick for you and with a bonus book of . I love this series myself.

Enjoy!

[Avid Reader and Geek Girl]

Vamp Amber for you I choose & and recommend (yes it's over 300 pgs I couldn't think of one under, but it reads really quick, I'm a slow reader and it still read really quickly, it's a seasonal YA/Romance/short-ish stories, I hope you enjoy it!)

[Karen ♐]

Elizabeth, I choose and bonus: (This book should definitely be a classic)

[☘KathyD☘]

Brigia. . . for December I choose and . . . for your bonus. . .

Happy Reading!

[Brigia]

☘KathyD☘ wrote: "Brigia. . . for December I choose and . . . for your bonus. . .

Happy Reading!"

That looks perfect - thanks!

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Chelle wrote: "Loriidae wrote: "Lorii's December Dusty Bookshelf

I have chosen the ten oldest books on my next in series shelf...."

Loriidae I pick for you and [bookcover:The K..."

Thanks Chelle all good series that I have been meaning to return to.

[Marty]

Chelle wrote: "Chelle's December 2018 Dusty Bookshelf

Hi Chelle, I choose and from your list. For the bonus, I choose my favorite China Mieville novel - . I hope you enjoy them all!

[Marty]

Ezinwanyi wrote: "Marty's December Dusty Bookshelf

Happy Holidays, here are your picks: BONUS HF: [bookcover:The Seven Husbands o..."

Thanks, Ezi!

[Theo]

Carrie

I'll pick from your shelf and
I've read both and really liked them both. I hope you do too!

For a bonus, I'll pick

[Theo]

Denise wrote: "Theo,

my picks for you: &

For your bonus, I'll give you a classic I loved: [bookcover:And Then There Were None..."

Thanks, Denise!

[Penumbra]

Thanks, Jammin Jenny! :)

[Lexi]

Carrie wrote: "Lexi For you I have & . For your bonus "
Thanks, I have decided to save The Miniaturist for Popsugar next year but look forward to reading the other two.