D.G.’s Comments (group member since Jan 26, 2012)

D.G.’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

R9 | ROLL 46 - 6/16/21
5 ---->P: Tarbean - Dockside

Allison wrote: "And Then There Were None

Any feedback on these? I've been wanting to try Agatha Christie forever, but I also just finished watching Shadow & Bone."

I'm a HUGE Dame Christie fan and have read 80+ of her books. If you're going to start with one from her lis, ATTWN is a great choice - it's her most famous standalone. Hopefully you haven't read some other book that will spoil it (over the years I've seen many books that have heavily "borrowed" from the plot here.) And it's good if you go completely blind...

Sure, Laurla!! My first pick was It Happened One Autumn - my favorite in the Wallflower series!! Then for the rest, I went with titles with 4 letters. :)

Ooh great shelf!! Lots of books from my TBR on this.

I think I'll finally try to read one of those popular "Girl" books that have been on my TBR for ages. I'm adding here a few other popular choices:

Tien wrote: "oh no, DG, didn't you know... did you know there are points in nominations too? Here they are:

Entries for your nominated shelf will be calculated as follows;
+1 - posting the book you've read for..."

Oh thanks for the info, Tien! I was out of GR for a lot of 2018-2020 (when my husband got sick and passed away) so I didn't realize the changes.

I'll update my post above to add the rating and shelf. :)

9th Round on the Board

✔️ R9 | ROLL 45 - 5/21/21
2 ---->P: Bast’s Rooms

Title's Initials - B - in name of place "Bast"
6/8 ★★★★½

Sure Amy! What about these two?

D.G. wrote: "My first supernatural read of the month was a dud. Scarlet Heat was supposed to be a sexy vampire book but had the stupidest women characters in the history of fiction. They were du..."

Oh we can nominate shelves? In that case, I nominate action.

Sure, Joyce!

Fugitive Telemetry - this is set right after #4, so I recommend you read this one before #5 in the series.

Coyote Blue - sounds funny

Amber House - looks interesting!!

My first supernatural read of the month was a dud. Scarlet Heat was supposed to be a sexy vampire book but had the stupidest women characters in the history of fiction. They were dumb as rocks!!! ALL of them were TSTL - and this includes the heroine, a witch that helps her out and TWO female villains. I laughed my ass off when the hero chomped the head of one of them. I was like...THAT'll teach you!!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

ETA:
Rating: 2 stars
Used for: Bookpoly
Nominate: action

R8 | ROLL 44 - 5/8/21
5 ---->P: The Ctaeh

Author Initials - HH - in name of place "tHe CtaeH"

GREAT choice!!

Not sure if you know, but book #6 in the series is set almost right after the events of #4 and #5 is set some months after #6. This was a bit jarring for me so I recommend reading 6 first and then going back to 5 (which is the first full novel.)

For you Joyce!! All books I've read. :)

Exit Strategy - my absolutely FAVORITE series!! I've read each book like 10 times (except for the one that came out a week ago...I've only read that one twice.)
Mind Games - Such a different concept for a series.
Serpent's Kiss - I JUST re-read the first book in this series so I'm still in the middle of this world.

Sure Rosemary. Here they are:

Selected the first because I've read and liked it and then continued with other books that have two words in the title. :)

✔️ R8 | ROLL 43 - 4/25/21
8 ---->P: Penthe’s Quarters

Title's Initials - SH - in name of place "pentHe'S"
5/8 ★★

Supernatural is definitely my jam! Not crazy about zombies though. My favorites are probably shapeshifters. :)

I'm re-reading the Alex Verus series and I'm up to Veiled. Very likely I'll start with this one and go from there.

(This is an awesome series with lots of action and good mysteries. I totally recommend it.)

Marina (Sonnenbarke) wrote: "Thanks for the recommendations, Tien! Hounded looks really good and I've just seen it's currently €0.99 on Kobo..."

Hounded is awesome. Let me know how you like Oberon!

✔️ R8 | ROLL 42 - 4/12/21
10 ---->P: Severen - Low

Title's Initials - LR - in name of place "seveRen Low"
4/25 ★★

✔️ R8 | ROLL 41 - 4/11/21
8 ---->P: The University – The Artificery

4/12/21 ★★½
Author Initials - RA - in name of place "ARtificery"

Sure, Paola. Selecting mostly by white covers here. :)