Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Welcome to the Orphan Train.

Place your requests here, and I promise to send your picks as quickly as I can.

Congratulations, Lagullande!

Your silent partner for this enterprise is Lyn. Please PM her if you should be offline for more than 48 hours. Otherwise, she will also monitor and respond to requests if not responded to (sometimes real life can takeover), after 48 hours.

Hi Lagullande! I've landed on your property. Can you please pick 3 books for me from my shelf?

Lusie wrote: "Hi Lagullande! I've landed on your property. Can you please pick 3 books for me from my shelf?"

Hey Lusie! Lagullande is away right now, so I get to pick for you. Here are the books that I picked:

In the Barren Ground
The Obsession
Alias Grace

Thank you Lyn! Great picks. I think I'll go for either The Obsession or Alias Grace

Lusie wrote: "Thank you Lyn! Great picks. I think I'll go for either The Obsession or Alias Grace"

I'm back from Italy now. Thanks, Lynn, for looking after the shop while I was away. Alias Grace definitely would have been one of my picks for Lusie too.

I hope you had a great trip.
Alias Grace does sound like a good book. Have you read it, Lagullande?

Lusie wrote: "I hope you had a great trip.
Alias Grace does sound like a good book. Have you read it, Lagullande?"

Well, I have, but a long time ago so probably when it was new and I now remember nothing about it. I recently read Atwood's The Blind Assassin and found that very interesting...and recommendable.

That one is on my tbr as well. Thanks for the tip!

Hi, Lagullande! I've landed on the Orphan Train.
Please could you choose 3 picks for me?
Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Rosemary wrote: "Hi, Lagullande! I've landed on the Orphan Train.
Please could you choose 3 picks for me?
Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Hi Rosemary. This is my first ever pick for someone!

A Boy's Own Story (because I read this in my teens, although I can't remember much about it)
Portrait of a Murderer (because I love these British Library Crime Classics)
Home (because it's been on your shelves for a while, and it's the only one that is also on my shelves!)

Hope whichever one you choose is fantastic.

Oh wow, I'm proud to be your first pickee! :)

I'd like to go with Portrait of a Murderer because I love those books too, and it's coming for a Christmas read. But I don't actually have it yet. So I'll wait a few days and hope it arrives. If not, I do have both of the other two.

Hi, Lagullande :)
I have just landed on "Orphan Train"
May I please have 3 picks:

My Bookopoly Shelf

Thanks!

Sue wrote: "Hi, Lagullande :)
I have just landed on "Orphan Train"
May I please have 3 picks:

My Bookopoly Shelf

Thanks!"

Here you go, Sue:



Happy New Year. Hope you have a great reading year in 2018.

Lagullande wrote: "
Here you go, Sue: ...

Thank you, Lagullande, and Happy New Year to you too!
I like all 3 of your picks! I'm doing some final comparisons between the three, regarding which might be the quickest available from the library at this time; which can be best used in January for other challenges (in this group and other groups), and also waiting to see what my next category will be in the AAMP group's White Elephant Party game - and then I will make my choice. I'll be back again Sunday or Monday to let you know which one I chose.

Sue wrote: "
... I'll be back again Sunday or Monday to let you know which one I chose.

My new "White Elephant Party" category turned out to be "Crime (and Mystery)", so I am going to choose Flying Too High. Thanks again for the picks, and thanks for your virtual hospitality on the Orphan Train property :)

Hi Lagullande! I landed on Orphan Train. Can you please pick 3 books for me? Thanks!

Stacey's bookopoly shelf

Stacey wrote: "Hi Lagullande! I landed on Orphan Train. Can you please pick 3 books for me? Thanks!

Stacey's bookopoly shelf"

Hi Stacey.

Here you are. Three picks for you. I have read them all, and enjoyed them. Hope you do too.

Lagullande wrote: "Stacey wrote: "Hi Lagullande! I landed on Orphan Train. Can you please pick 3 books for me? Thanks!

Stacey's bookopoly shelf"

Hi Stacey.

Here you are. Three picks for you. I have read them all,..."

Thanks! I'm excited to read all three, not sure how I will pick!

Hi Lagullande, I have landed on your property and would like three picks from my bookopoly shelf. Thank you.

Coralie wrote: "Hi Lagullande, I have landed on your property and would like three picks from my bookopoly shelf. Thank you."

It would be a pleasure, Coralie. Here are your picks:

La Belle Sauvage (I listened to the audio - 4 stars)

Ilium (the one that's been on your shelves the longest)

The Master of Ballantrae (I recently read Treasure Island for the first time, and have Kidnapped on my Wishlist, I hadn't heard of this one by RLS)

I hope one of these will float your boat.

Lagullande wrote: "Coralie wrote: "Hi Lagullande, I have landed on your property and would like three picks from my bookopoly shelf. Thank you."

It would be a pleasure, Coralie. Here are your picks:

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Thanks Lagullande. I have all three of them sitting on my read very soon shelf. I don't know which I'll go for.

Hi Lagullande

I've just boarded the Orphan Train, could you please select three books from my shelf

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

Thanks

Karen wrote: "Hi Lagullande

I've just boarded the Orphan Train, could you please select three books from my shelf

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

Thanks"

Here you go, Karen. Three that I have read and rated all of them 4 stars:

La Belle Sauvage
The Essex Serpent
The Silkworm

Hi Lagullande, I've just landed on the Orphan Train (good book!) and would appreciate three selections from Amy's Bookopoly shelf. Thanks!

Amy wrote: "Hi Lagullande, I've just landed on the Orphan Train (good book!) and would appreciate three selections from Amy's Bookopoly shelf. Thanks!"

Hi Amy. Welcome aboard :-)

Here are your 3 picks:

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (because it was long listed for the Bailey's Prize, which I like to follow)
Half of a Yellow Sun (because it is the only one on your shelf that I have read - I gave it 4 stars)
Bunheads (because the title made me laugh!)

Let me know how it goes.

Lagullande wrote: "Amy wrote: "Hi Lagullande, I've just landed on the Orphan Train (good book!) and would appreciate three selections from Amy's Bookopoly shelf. Thanks!"

Hi Amy. Welcome aboard :-)

Here are your 3 ..."

I think I'll go with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Thanks!

Started the above book, but the reader of the audio version speaks way too fast with minimal inflection. Going to switch to Half of a Yellow Sun.

Can I have three picks from my shelf please?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Can I have three picks from my shelf please?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Here you go, Jayme:



I think they should all be good for other challenge groups too ;-)

Those are all for SRC mainly.

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Those are all for SRC mainly."

The first two are good for RwS also.

Which tasks for rwa?

Err rwa I meant

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Which tasks for rwa?"

Kristin Hannah is good for 20.6 Dead Souls (repeating H)

Colson Whitehead is good for 20.3 Sanctuary (on list of Pulitzer winners), and 20.6 Dead Souls (also repeating H).

Good to know, I will add them to my RWS, list

I need a pick please:

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

Thanks

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "I need a pick please:

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

Thanks"

Hi Abbie. I'm not familiar with any of the books on your list, but here goes:

Sleeping Beauties (the longest)
Hearts in Atlantis (the oldest)
Millie's Fling (on your shelves for the longest time)

I finally made it! May I please have 3 picks from my shelf?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Lagullande wrote: "Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "I need a pick please:

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

Thanks"

Hi Abbie. I'm not familiar with any of the books on y..."


Thanks!

CluckingBell wrote: "I finally made it! "

Yay! Where have you been??!

Here are your picks:

Galore It's on my Wishlist. I read Crummey's Sweetland, and it was very good.
The Coroner's Lunch. Good fun - I'm on book 3 of this series.
Madeline Miller I gave it 4 stars. Madeline Miller's new book Circe is out this year.

Enjoy!

Lagullande wrote: "CluckingBell wrote: "I finally made it! "

Yay! Where have you been??!

Here are your picks:

...

Thank you! I'm kind of leaning toward The Coroner's Lunch at the moment, since it's sitting on my nightstand raring to go.... :-)

Hi, Lagullande! I've landed on your property! Could I please have 3 selections from my bookopoly shelf? Thanks!

Here are my picks for you, Kristina:

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, because I read it last year and very much enjoyed it
A Separate Peace, because I have never heard of it before but it's described as an American classic so I'm guessing you might have, and it sounds interesting
Map of the Heart, because the other two are older books and this one is the most recently published on your shelf.

Lagullande wrote: "Here are my picks for you, Kristina:"

Thanks, Lagullande! I've been neglecting my classics challenge so I think I'm going to go with A Separate Peace for this round.

Kristina Simon wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "Here are my picks for you, Kristina:"

Thanks, Lagullande! I've been neglecting my classics challenge so I think I'm going to go with A Separate Peace for this round."

I just started reading this one myself!!

Beth wrote: "I just started reading this one myself!!"

How are you liking it? I'm hoping it's good. It's been on my list for a really long time!

hiya!!

can i get 3 picks please?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Dee wrote: "hiya!!

can i get 3 picks please?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Hiya!!

Our tastes don't seem to overlap much, so it's a bit random but here they are:

The Chemist
Singing Bird
Tangled Up

Kristina Simon wrote: "Beth wrote: "I just started reading this one myself!!"

How are you liking it? I'm hoping it's good. It's been on my list for a really long time!"

I am only a few pages in. I carry a book around to read when I have to kill time waiting somewhere and this is the current on I have for that purpose. So far, so good!!

thanks Lagullande! i'm next up on the list for The Chemist at the library and should have it very soon, so i'll go with that! thanks!