Dee’s Comments (group member since Jan 06, 2011)

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

June Bender

Top 5 Books from April
Crow Mary
The Prison Healer
Kill for Me
Viva Lola Espinoza
The No-Girlfriend Rule

L4L
Crow Mary - Native American - The Berry Pickers
The Prison Healer - Magic - Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Kill for Me - Romantic Suspense - Silent Scream
Viva Lola Espinoza -
The No-Girlfriend Rule

Dee

Top 5 Books from March
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Malas
Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm—from Scratch
DallerGut Dream Department Store
In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

L4L
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Medicine - Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Malas - Coming of Age - This Tender Land (pg2)
Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm—from Scratch - food - The Lager Queen of Minnesota (pg8)
DallerGut Dream Department Store - asian literature - The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (pg4)
In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army - War - Once There Was a War

April

Top 5 from February
Not in the Plan
The Purity of Vengeance
The Book Censor's Library
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
The Frozen River

L4L
Not in the Plan - Lesbian - One Last Stop (pg1)
The Purity of Vengeance - - Sidetracked (pg2)
The Book Censor's Library - Speculative Fiction - Foundation (pg2)
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage - Espionage - The Secrets We Kept (pg6)
The Frozen River - Crime - The Marco Effect (pg12)

March

Top 5 books Read
The Evolution of Annabel Craig
Make Room for Love
The Lion Women of Tehran
Crow Talk
Love You a Latke

L4L
The Evolution of Annabel Craig - Southern - Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books (pg5)
Make Room for Love - Queer - Upright Women Wanted (pg3)
The Lion Women of Tehran - Iran - Daughters of Smoke and Fire (pg5)
Crow Talk = Birds - Migrations (pg1)
Love You a Latke - Jewish - Man's Search for Meaning (pg1)

getting all cuahgt up - even though i know i likely won't get these books all read :)

Top 5 Reads from Decemebr
Playground
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
When Women Were Dragons
Death in the Details -
The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

L4L (in progress)
Playground - Nature - A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life - Sports - She Drives Me Crazy (pg4)
When Women Were Dragons - Dragons - - To Shape a Dragon's Breath (pg2)
Death in the Details - Historical Mystery - In This Grave Hour (pg5)
The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers - Health - All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today (pg5)

Meg wrote: "Any fave Japanese or Korean authors Dee?
I really like Sayaka Murata and Yōko Ogawa"

whoops - i was getting zero recommendations/notifications from this group - i haven't posted since January which is crazy town :)

healing fiction sounds interesting

i'll admit that i've loved most of the japanese/korean stuff i've read recently - it just seems so fresh compared to the US published stuff

ugh November was such a mediocre month for me :(

Top 5 November 2024 Books
Birding with Benefits
That Summer Feeling
Superheroes Anonymous
Dead Man's Hand
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

Like for Like (L4L)
Birding with Benefits - Contemporary Romance - The Spanish Love Deception (added Feb 2024)

That Summer Feeling - Queer - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (added Nov 2020)

Superheroes Anonymous - Superheroes - Hench (added Feb 21)

Dead Man's Hand - Magic - The Prison Healer (added May 24) - Finished - April 27, 2025

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain - Feminisim - Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story (added Jun 19)

Found 2024 - Finished LOST 8/11/24

Read 10 books which were:
1. added to your TBR in the past 6 months AND
2. were published prior to the date you completed LOST 2024 (#1)

0/10 complete

1. Strictly Pleasure - added July 4, 2024; published January 26, 2023
2 Nine Tailed - added July 1, 2024; published August 1, 2024
3 The Animals at Lockwood Manor - added June 30, 2024; published March 10, 2020
4 Girl on a Layover - added June 29, 2024; published October 26, 2023
5 Love at First Knight - added June 15, 2024; published April 25, 2024
6 A Quantum Love Story - added May 29, 2024; published January 30, 2024
7 Summer Ever After - added June 1, 2024; published July 1, 2024
8 Southern Man - purchased June 1, 2024, published May 28, 2024
9 The Last List of Mabel Beaumont - purchased May 19, 2024; Published August 4, 2023
10 The Golden Doves - purchased May 19, 2024; published April 18, 2023

finished - post 15 - on to FOUND!

Oh it’s on - I have it slotted into a SRC task - it’s the next audiobook on the pile

one to go - woot woot - lol

I have two from my shelfbender that I'll get read this month:
A Fatal Grace from the canada shelf and The Cat Who Saved Books from the japan shelf

its not on my shelf-bender list - but it is one of my LOST books - I'm finishing up Moloka'i which apparently I bought back in 2012 in audible - i'm kicking myself for waiting so long - i don't know why i didn't read/listen to it before

Susan wrote: "I've been rethinking my choices above (message 17). I'm just not sure I'm up for reading 400+ pages in The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. It's..."

this would be one of those books i draw out and read like a chapter a day - maybe that is how you could get through it

and last genre for picks :)

1. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Cozy Mystery, pg1)
- NEXT (item on cover - glasses) - The Bad Muslim Discount

2. D is for Deadbeat (crime, pg15) - Finished - 2/21/24
- NEXT (similar author) - Two for the Dough

3. A Useful Woman (historical mystery, pg3)
- NEXT (readers also enjoyed) - A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder

4. Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (paranormal mystery, pg1)
- NEXT (wacky shelf - eye) - The King's Hounds (pg2)

5. Night of the Living Deed (amateur sleuth, pg1)
- NEXT (best of 2010) - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

get my sci-fi on :)

1. River of Teeth (alternate history, pg1)
- NEXT (similar author) - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking - T. Kingfisher (as of 12 Feb)

2. Terms of Enlistment (military science fiction, pg1)
- NEXT (item on cover - space ship) - Metal Bones

3. The Water Knife (near future, pg1)
- NEXT (wacky shelf - water) - Why We Swim

4. Against the Fall of Night (dying earth, pg1)
- NEXT (best of...1953) - The Caves of Steel (pg1)

5. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (virtual reality, pg1)
- NEXT (readers also enjoyed) - The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Fantasy

1. Captain's Fury (Epic Fantasy, pg2)
NEXT (item on cover - sword) - Masques

2 Princeps' Fury (high fantasy, pg6)
- NEXT (wacky shelf - Fury) - Iron Widow

3 A Deadly Education (magic, p2)
- NEXT (similar author - Naomi Novak) - System Collapse - Martha Wells (as of 12 Feb)

4 Discount Armageddon (urban fantasy, pg3)
- NEXT (best of 2012) - The Round House(pg2)

5 Fireborne (dragons, pg1)
- NEXT (readers also enjoyed) - Assistant to the Villain

might as well dive on it ;)

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4 - D is for Deadbeat (#4 in the Kinsey Malone series) - Finished - 2/21/24

2+7 = 27 - Murder in Rose Hill (#27 in Gaslight Mysteries series)

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3 - Competence (#3 in the Custard Protocal) - Finished - 2/23/24

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Comedy choices ;)

1. Bellwether (comic science fiction, pg1)
- NEXT (similar author) - Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi (as of Feb 9)

2. The Big Over Easy (comic fantasy, pg1)
- NEXT (best of 2005) - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

3. The Love Hypothesis (funny, pg2)
- NEXT (item on cover - test tube) - A Lady's Formula for Love

4. Bridesmaid for Hire(laughter, pg1)
- NEXT (wacky shelf - bridesmaid) - Three Little Words (pg1)

5. F*cked: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That's Screwed (Comediennes, pg1)
- NEXT (similar books) - Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (as of Feb 9)