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August 2021 - Turning Tables
I’d like to play. Here is the same shelf I used last month. If I have number 3 in a series listed and you are on a different number…I think ( Janice gets to decide) that would be fine too or should I delete series from the shelf and replace with stand alones? https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
I guess I should add my name to the list! LOL! I will use the same shelf as last month:https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Marnie wrote: "I’d like to play. Here is the same shelf I used last month. If I have number 3 in a series listed and you are on a different number…I think ( Janice gets to decide) that would be fine too or should..."Oh that's a good question.
Rusalka wrote: "Marnie wrote: "I’d like to play. Here is the same shelf I used last month. If I have number 3 in a series listed and you are on a different number…I think ( Janice gets to decide) that would be fin..."Excellent idea! I will add that to the rules.
Shoot, I deleted my shelf already. I'll make another one and participate!Edit: Dinner is ready. Hope the menus suit your taste!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
I updated my list, but there are still not very many books on it. It might be difficult for someone to choose from my shelf, so I'm going to go back and add some of my 5 star reads to the mix. Hopefully, that will give someone some good options. :)Edit: I updated it again and now there are plenty of options. Going through my old reads was fun.
Ayacchi wrote: "Shoot, I deleted my shelf already. I'll make another one and participate!"Aya - You could just link to a shelf you already have if you want to. Since someone else is reading off your shelf, it doesn't have to be something that you plan to read in August. So, you could link to your want to read shelf or your read shelf or even your favorites if you chose to.
Sign me up! I will come back and add my shelf when I am on-line. I am not sure it will be fair to use the same shelf as I had for the previous challenge because the titles were ALL next books in series that I had already started. I have a few other shelves that would be better for someone else to pick a book from. There are over 500 series titles on my “first-in-series-to-read” shelf but that may be overwhelming. 😂edited. 7/26 Here is my link for books to pick from.
Cherie's list
Oh fun, I’m in 😃 and I will use the same list, which I believe Rusalka managed to link properly for last month, and I will endeavor to replicate as soon as I am off the app
I'm in. I'm using the same shelf, but did add a few books that I read this year that i thought were good. The Shelf
Kristie wrote: "Ayacchi wrote: "Shoot, I deleted my shelf already. I'll make another one and participate!"Aya - You could just link to a shelf you already have if you want to. Since someone else is reading off y..."
Didn't think of it, only focused on my WTR, lol. But I've done making a shelf, a combo of all the shelves available!
I am in pick from my want to read shelf https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
I am quite happy for you to pick longer books
Can i just check I am picking from their shelf and so it would not matter if something on my shelf fits the year long challenge?
I updated my original post with my "love-the-covers-to-read" shelf.If nothing on that list meets, please feel free to pick from my "to-be-read" shelf - it is HUGE, or any of the sub shelves, even something I have already read.
Marie - you cannot use a book for the monthly challenge and the yearly challenge too. If you pick a book from your buddy's shelf, and it is on your yearly challenge task list, you have to choose which challenge you are going to use the book for. Same for someone else choosing from your to read list.
Marie (UK) wrote: "Can i just check I am picking from their shelf and so it would not matter if something on my shelf fits the year long challenge?"I think this is correct. You won't be reading the book, the other person will. So, they will just choose something that doesn't fit for their yearly challenge and you will do likewise from the shelf you are given to pick from.
I'm in. Please choose from the list of books that I've read this year: Books read in 2021. I'd love to know if your opinion matches mine.
Cherie wrote: "Marie - you cannot use a book for the monthly challenge and the yearly challenge too. If you pick a book from your buddy's shelf, and it is on your yearly challenge task list, you have to choose ..."
Yes I know that Cherie I was checking that we would be picking from someone else's shelf not having one picked from our own to read as I would need to remove the ones earmarked for the annual challenge. I am not sure if i am making this clear, I only have 4 books to go for the annual challenge but I cannot get round to them
Marie (UK) wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Marie - you cannot use a book for the monthly challenge and the yearly challenge too. If you pick a book from your buddy's shelf, and it is on your yearly challenge task list, you ..."
I understood what you were asking. I didn't respond because I thought Kristie had correctly answered. Just to clarify in case there is any confusion, you will be picking from someone else's shelf so it won't matter to you what is on your own shelf.
Thank to the new rule... I have add my next-in-series books to my challenge list : )
Marie (UK) wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Marie - you cannot use a book for the monthly challenge and the yearly challenge too. If you pick a book from your buddy's shelf, and it is on your yearly challenge task list, you ..."
okay - got it! Wow - only four books left. Awesome.
I'm in! I will use the same shelf, It's mostly books I own so someone can be my guinea pighttps://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Vicki wrote: "I'm in! I will use the same shelf, It's mostly books I own so someone can be my guinea pighttps://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."
My plan too, Vicki lol
I put the names into a randomizer and came up with the following selections:Sharon selects from Peggy
Christina selects from Shirley
Rusalka selects from Cherie
Marnie selects from Christina
Janice selects from Vicki
Aya selects from Kristie
Kristie selects from Almeta
Almeta selects from Jayme
Peggy selects from Katrisa
Katrisa selects from Jocelyn
Cherie selects from TrudyAn
AnneFindsJoy selects from Ellie- May
Jenn selects from Rusalka
TrudyAn selects from Marie UK
Margo selects from Jenn
Jayme selects from Margo
Abby selects from Sharon
Marie UK selects from Abby
Shirley selects from Aya
Ellie-May selects from Janice
Jocelyn selects from AnneFindJoys
Vicki selects from Marnie
I put the names into a randomizer and came up with the following selections:Sharon selects from Peggy
Christina selects from Shirley
Rusalka selects from Cherie
Marnie selects from Christina
Janice selects from Vicki
Aya selects from Kristie
Kristie selects from Almeta
Almeta selects from Jayme
Peggy selects from Katrisa
Katrisa selects from Jocelyn
Cherie selects from TrudyAn
AnneFindsJoy selects from Ellie- May
Jenn selects from Rusalka
TrudyAn selects from Marie UK
Margo selects from Jenn
Jayme selects from Margo
Abby selects from Sharon
Marie UK selects from Abby
Shirley selects from Aya
Ellie-May selects from Janice
Jocelyn selects from AnneFindJoys
Vicki selects from Marnie
Oh yay! Our matches have been posted! Time to find my book!! :)
Anne ✨ wrote: "I'm in! Here's my shelf for this round:https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."
I get to pick from yours and I'm so excited!
Almeta wrote: "I'm in!Almeta's August List"
So many good options!!
I have a couple of good options I am looking at from Jocelyn's shelf! So fun!
Hey Margo, I was thinking about it, and the shelf I had offered up was just a random selection of strange things that I own. My “owned” shelf is huge, but you are welcome to use that instead 😃 I hope that you find something that strikes your fancy 😃
I have four books that I own that are also on Katrisa's shelf. One is too short, one is chunky and a series and I'm not sure I want to start another series right now.That leaves two. I'll see if I'm in the mood to read one of them later this month :)
Wonderful! I feel honored to pick from TrudyAn’s list. I looked over the choices and found many that were on my TBR list. It was hard to choose but, I am going to read Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin.
I am picking from Abby's shelf there are some great books hereI have chosen 3 - so that if I get stuck finding them or don't like the first I have choices
1. IQ - I like Mystery/ thrillers and this is a new author for me
2. Malice again Retellings are a favourite genre and another new Author
3. As You Like It I put this in as I know it will be free on Kindle but it feels like a cop out as Shakespeare's Work is so well known to me. I have seen this several times at the Globe and at a pop up shakespeare theatre in York
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Here's how it works:
1. Sign up below and link to your shelf that you would like a person to pick from. If you created a shelf for last month's challenge, perhaps you'd like to use that one again.
2. On Wednesday, I will tell you whose shelf you get to snoop through.
The list!
3. Pick one of the books on that shelf, and that will be your challenge book.
Just a reminder about privacy settings - If your profile is private, you will need to temporarily change your settings or add your buddy as a friend.
And a note on those dang pesky series books.... If your buddy has a series book on the list, say book 3 of the series, you may read either the 1st book if it's a new to you series, or whatever book you are currently at. Eg, buddy has The Cabinet of Curiosities which is book 3 of the Pendergast Series. I could read Fever Dream which is book 10 because that's the next book in the series for me to read.
General Rules:
1. The book may be in any format - paperback, ebook, audiobook.
2. The book may NOT be combined with the Year Long Challenge.
3. The book must be read between August 1 and August 31, 2021 (based on your local time zone).
4. The challenge is for one book. You may read more books if you chose but you may only report one.
5. The book must be 175 pages or more determined by the issue you read.
In the case of ebooks & audiobooks, use the hardcover or paperback edition to determine page length. From the book page, select “all editions”, then select the first paper edition as your guide. If reading an ebook and there is no paper edition, the ebook book must be at least 250 pages. If reading an audiobook and there is no paper edition, your book must be a minimum of 6 hours long.
Report your finished books in the reporting thread using your WoF name.
Please tell us whose shelf you got to snoop in, link to the book, tell us why you picked your book, and what you thought of it. Please be analytical in your presentation, and not just that you liked it or didn't. We want to know why.