Stacey’s Comments (group member since Nov 19, 2017)

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

Prompt 14: Arrays

Serial reads: Read 14 books:
2 books from 7 different series (ie. 7 series only from which you will read 2 books each)

Series 1:
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Series 2:
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Series 3:
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Series 4:
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Series 5:
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Series 6:
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Series 7:
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Prompt 13: Baker's Dozen

Read:
12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you

Series:
1. Scars 4/11/23 Killers #5
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New Series and Author:
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Prompt 12: Read 12 books as determined by the Wheel & list of past shelves below.

How to:
1. Spin the Wheel 12 times; one for each month (make note of them in order of spins as they will correspond with the month)

2. Find past shelves you have to read from by finding corresponding month/year below (post #2 lists past shelves)

1. 2020 -- Latin America
2. 2011 -- Science -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
3. 2015 -- Russia -- A Gentleman in Moscow
4. 2019 -- 1990s
5. 2012 -- Horror
6. 2016 -- Must - read
7. 2010 -- History
8. 2022 -- chick lit
9. 2021 -- domestic thriller -- Verity
10. 2015 -- supernatural
11. 2019 -- Lesbian -- Gideon the Ninth
12. 2021 -- dark academia -- Legendborn

Prompt 11: repdigit (repeated digit)

Read 2 books where:
titles (excluding subtitles / series names) contain same EXACT word/s
OR
authors' names (first AND last) are the same (you may ignore middle name/initial but spelling must be identical)

Prompt 10: X

Read book/s where "x" is found in:
1. title (no subtitle)
2. author's name

You can read 2 books (one for each condition) or 1 book which meets both conditions

Prompt 9 -- Square Number

Read 2 trilogies.

Trilogy #1
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Trilogy #2
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Prompt 8 -- O2

Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books
1. Magic Tides 2/2/23
2. Veils 3/6/23
3. No Mercy 3/21/23
4. Encore in Death 3/23/23
5. My Lucky #13 3/25/23
6. At Peace 4/17/23

Prompt 7 -- "Sevens"

Read 7 books that feature 'Seven'
R
O -- 2/4/23
Y -- 4/9/23
G -- 3/13/23
B
I
V -- 1/24/23

Prompt 6: Dice -- DONE

Roll: 3 series books
1. River of Shadows (Underworld Gods #1) 1/26/23
2. Athica Lane (Carpinos #3) 1/28/23
3. Trophy Hunt (Joe Pickett #4) 2/12/23

Prompt #5 Prime Number -- DONE

Read a book where page number is a prime number
Judge & Jury 419 pages 1/2/23

Prompt #4 Family -- DONE

Read book/s with person/s on cover/s where when number of people on cover/s added, we have a total of 4.
2 + 1 + 1 + 4

1/14/23
1/16/23
1/19/23

Fifteen for Fifteen -- Prompt #3: Third time's the charm -- DONE

Read 3 books by 1 author.
Probably Kristen Ashley
Until the Sun Falls from the Sky 1/25/23
The Golden Dynasty 2/16/23
Rock Chick Revolution 4/6/23

Fifteen for Fifteen -- Prompt #2 Heads or Tails - DONE.

Last book in a series from 2022 -- A Hard Day for a Hangover Book #3

1. Heads -- Throne of Glass 1/2/23
2. Heads -- Sleeping Giants 1/5/23
3. Tails -- Paint It All Red 2/22/23

Fifteen for Fifteen -- Prompt #1 Big

My second longest book in 2022 was 710 pages.

Possiblilties: The Book of Azrael 841 p
House of Earth and Blood 803 p

Congrats on 15 years! I'll be on this evening after work to reserve my spots. :)

🎵 We will, We will Rock READ you 🎵
Goal: 5000p.

You will set your own task (one only) and read for this task for the year. You can pick one of below tasks or make one up of your own.

The books I have bought over the last 2 years that are sitting on my shelf.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Lore
All the Light We Cannot See
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Fifth Season
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
The Terror
Pandemic
Grave Mercy
Matterhorn
The Alienist
and if needed for pages..... It

🎵 Your Body STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
Goal: 5000p.
Progress: 1029/5000

Read books with fictionalised settings
any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe

1. Things We Never Got Over 2/22/22 570 pages
2. All Systems Red 3/4/22 144p.
3. Sweep in Peace 4/25/22 315p.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles🎵 Heal READ the World 🎵
Goal: 5000 p.
2085/5000

Read a book set in (at least 50%) AND written by author born/live in another continent from your current residence. (Non-North American)

Last Guard 3/7/22 384 p. (Russia/India, New Zealand)
Silver Silence 3/26/22 467p.
A Girl Like Her 3/25/22 308p.
What We Deserve 4/20/22 304p.
Just One Damned Thing After Another 5/18/22 335 p.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles 5/22/22 288 p.

🎵 Bohemian Bibliophile Rhapsody 🎵
Read:
1. poetries
2. anthologies
3. music-related books

Goal: 5000p.
Completed: 953/5000

The Deal 2/7/21 342p.
Cake 6/11/22 611p

🎵 Killing Me Softly Serially 🎵
Only series books will qualify in this round.
Only 1 book per series can be claimed for this challenge
Goal: 5000p.
Progress: 3183/5000

1. The Will 2/5/21 595p.
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3. Crossing the Line 1/16/21 381p.
4. Walk Through Fire 3/3/22 615p.
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6. Kaleidoscope 5/4/22 376p.
7. Magic Breaks 1/28/21 381p.
9. Lover Unleashed 4/7/22 537p.
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16. Break the Day 5/9/22 298 p.