Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Congratulations, Nat, for completing Stage 3 & unlocking Stage 10!

Please note tasks below are just some ideas which you may wish to use and/or adapt according to your preference. You are free, of course, to come up with your own tailored tasks as long as it fits within the theme of "Author".

Dead
Live/d up to 80+
Published before they're 30
born in a particular country
living in a particular country
Has Q, X, Z in their name

(etc)

Limits on number of tasks as per the size of your goals are as follows;

Goal: up to 1,000 pages
Tasks: up to 3

Goal: up to 3,500 pages
Tasks: up to 5

Goal: up to 7,000 pages
Tasks: up to 8

Goal: up to 10,000 pages
Tasks: up to 11

Goal: 10,000++ pages
Tasks: up to 15

Amy

Bea

Jayme(the ghost reader)

Kristina Simon

Lusie

Mary

Sandy

Sassafrass

Tien

My Goal: 5,400 pages
Up to 8 tasks
OoZ: books in Bahasa Indonesia

Progress: 5,428/5,400 pages as at 11/02

1. #AWW (Australian Women Writers)
🗸 244p - Walking to the Moon by Kate Cole-Adams -Read 09/30
🗸 369p - Good News, Bad News (A Scout Davis Investigation #2) by Maggie Groff -Read 10/02
🗸 352p - The Dark (Guardians of Time #2) by Marianne Curley -Read 10/19
🗸 268p - The Book of Rapture by Nikki Gemmell -Read 10/30
🗸 320p - The Last Magician by Janette Turner Hospital -Read 11/02
sub-total: 1,537p

2. Authors born within decade (either side) of my birth year
🗸 372p - The Name of the Star (Shades of London #1) by Maureen Johnson -Read 10/09
🗸 321p - Bring Me Sunshine: A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather by Charlie Connelly -Read 10/18
🗸 420p - Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson -Read 10/22
🗸 173p - Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire -Read 10/27
sub-total: 1,286p

3. POC
🗸 210p - Dear Martin by Nic Stone -Read 10/07
🗸 343p - The Yield by Tara June Winch -Read 10/16
🗸 304p - Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -Read 10/16
sub-total: 857p

4. Authors who died before I was born
🗸 207p - Dubliners by James Joyce -Read 10/08
🗸 160p - The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie -Read 10/09
sub-total: 367p

5. Author's published names with initials
🗸 218p - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton -Read 10/08
🗸 410p - The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2) by N.K. Jemisin -Read 10/21
sub-total: 628p

6. Author who writes in language other than English
🗸 192p - The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury -Read 10/21
🗸 192p - China Dream by Ma Jian -Read 10/25
🗸 161p - The White Book by Han Kang -Read 10/28
🗸 208p - Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi -Read 10/29
sub-total: 753p

Stage 10 - Authors = COMPLETED 10/26/19
Goal 5% - 4,456 pages.
up to 8 tasks
Out of Zone goal: books I own as of 12/19/18 and have not read before.
4607/4456

1. Authors who write under more than one name. - 931 pages.
- The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (also Stephen King). 9/25/19. 370 pages.
- The Institute by Stephen King (also writes as Richard Bachman). 10/25/19. 561 pages.

2. Authors who share an initial with me (S or W) - 2815 pages.
- Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire. 10/10/19. 442 pages.
- The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine. 10/14/19. 272 pages.
- The Shooting in the Shop by Simon Brett. 10/15/19. 357 pages.
- A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi. 10/16/19. 144 pages.
- Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire. 10/18/19. 420 pages.
- The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out by William Dameron. 10/19/19. 286 pages.
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. 10/20/19. 339 pages.
- The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire. 10/20/19. 368 pages.
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire. 10/26/19. 187 pages.

3. Authors whose initials are in consecutive alphabetical order (forward or reversed). - 861 pages.
- Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda (LM). 10/12/19. 285 pages.
- Recursion by Blake Crouch (BC). 10/13/19. 336 pages.
- The Waters and the Wild by Mercedes Lackey (ML). 10/17/19. 240 pages.

Stage 10: Authors

Goal: 2,675 pages
Up to 5 tasks
OOZ: Magical Realism

1. Authors born outside of USA
465 pages - Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong (China)
445 pages - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (Italy)
336 pages - Sun Storm by Åsa Larsson (Sweden)
368 pages - Angel of Death by Rochelle Krich (Germany)
384 pages - Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle (Ireland)
480 pages - Flower Net by Lisa See (France)
439 pages - The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)

Total pages = 2917

Still planning...

Lusie's Stage 10: Authors - Completed ❑ ☑ ✅

Goal: 5% - 3975 pages: Up to 8 tasks
Out of zone goal: Science Fiction

Total: 4575 pages

1. More than 1 author
☑ 384p How to Lasso a Cowboy [3-nov-19] ★★★

2. New to me
☑ 249p The Belle of Bath [1-nov-19] ★★★
☑ 400p The Gingerbread House [2-nov-19] ★★
☑ 336p The Pearl Thief [7-nov-19] ★★

3. Favorite Authors
☑ 528p The Pearl Sister [11-nov-19] ★★★★
☑ 368p A Noise Downstairs [19-nov-19] ★★★
☑ 706p Fool's Assassin [22-nov-19] ★★★★
☑ 757p Fool's Quest [29-nov-19] ★★★★
☑ 847p Assassin's Fate [2-dec-19] ★★★

Stage 10: Authors COMPLETED

Goal: 2500 pages
OOTZ: Pulitzer Prize winner
Number of tasks 5

Task 1: Playwright
144 p Agamemnon by Aeschylus
164 p An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
104p. Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
218 p. The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Task 2. British
326 p The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff
491 p Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
128 p. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

Task 3. African American
212 p. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

Task 4. Ex Military
537 p. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

Task 5: Library Lovers
192 p. The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson

Total 2516 p

Stage 10: Authors

Goals:
2,112 pages (5% of 2018 pages) ==> up to 5 tasks
🎯Out of the Zone goal: nonfiction

1. Nice to Meet You! ~ new-to-me authors
🎯 White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (168 pages + 17 OotZ = 185 pages) Read: 10/4/19
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen (375 pages) Read: 10/8/19
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (208 pages) Read: 10/14/19
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (172 pages) Read: 10/15/19
The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey (336 pages) Read: 10/20/19
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (205 pages) Read: 10/22/19
🎯 Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health by Gene Stone (213 pages + 21 OotZ = 234 pages) Read: 10/26/19
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (153 pages) Read: 10/31/19

2. Old Favorites ~ authors I return to over and over
🎯 Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich (235 pages + 24 OotZ = 259 pages) Read: 10/28/19


Total = 2,127
Goal = 2,112

Stage 10: Authors - DONE!
Goal: 5,000 pages
Total: 5,132 pages

1. Author's initials are in PICK-A-SHELF
✔Solo by Kwame Alexander - 464 pages - Completed 12/31/19
✔Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog by Susannah Charleson - 320 pages - Completed 1/19/20
✔The Myth of Perpetual Summer by Susan Crandall - 355 pages - Completed 1/21/20
✔Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray - 400 pages - Completed 12/21/19
✔The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth - 340 pages - Completed 12/27/19
✔The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri - 400 pages - Completed 12/2/19
✔Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry - 329 pages - Completed 11/24/19

2. New to me authors
✔Lexicon by Max Barry - 390 pages - Completed 1/25/20
✔The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh - 323 pages - Completed 12/31/19
✔The Whisper Man by Alex North - 355 pages - Completed 12/17/19
✔This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein - 576 pages - Completed 12/10/19
✔The Genius Plague by David Walton - 384 pages - Completed 1/2/20

3. Authors not from the U.S.
✔The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly - 496 pages - Completed 12/19/19

my spot

New to me:

Ladyfish (264 pages) 11/4/19

Stage 10 Authors
Goals: 3,500 pages
OOZ 5 nonfiction books
Pages Read: 391

1)New to me authors


2)English authors


3) American authors
Winter Gardenby Kristin Hannah
Completed 11/21/19

4) Authors from countries other than US or English


5) Authors with more than 5 letters in their last name

Goal: 3000 pages
Tasks: up to 5
OoZ: Nonfiction

1. WOC
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim (320 pgs) 9/28
The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (96 pgs) 9/28
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (287 pgs) 10/20
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (352 pgs) 10/28

2. Authors who are new to me
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (368 pgs) 9/29
The Printed Letter Bookshop By Katherine Reay (324 pgs) 10/1
The Au Pair by Emma Rous (360 pgs) 9/29
Again, but Better by Christine Riccio (373 pgs) 10/5
Lot by Bryan Washington (240 pgs) 10/3
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte (413) 10/13

= 3133

Completed: 3133/3133

DONE!

Stage 10: Author
Goals: 2500 pages
1001 list books (bonus of extra 10% of the book's pages if it qualifies)

Books read = 11
Pages read = 2603

1. Dead author
The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates, 20 Oct 19 - 160 pages
Young Anne by Dorothy Whipple, 7 Nov 19 - 292 pages
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, 10 Nov 19 - 156 pages
Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge, 17 Nov 19 - 344 pages

2. New-to-me author
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand, 29 Oct 19 - 288 pages
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, 4 Nov 19 - 384 pages
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick, 22 Nov 19 - 273 pages

3. Born in a country where English is not the main language
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, 22 Oct 19 - 84 + 10% 1001 bonus = 92 pages
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, 4 Dec 19 - 320 + 10% 1001 bonus = 352 pages

4. Has Q, X, Z in their name
Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? by Paula Danziger, 30 Oct 19 - 160 pages
Hemingways' Attic: Surviving as a Writer by William Hazelgrove, 31 Oct 19 - 92 pages

Stage 10 - Authors
Goal - 3,500pgs
**OOtZ Goal - MPG Classics

304/3,500pgs
OOtZ books:

Scientists turned Authors
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - 304pgs - 10/6/19

Dee

Goal: 8452pgs
Current Total: 8030/8452
Remaining Pages: - 422/8452

up to 11 categories

1. Authors who have the same initials (M.M; K.K)
Not a Drop to Drink- Mindy McGinnis - 309pgs - Finished - 10/13/19
Impact - Cassandra Carr - 155pgs - Finished - 11/9/19
Deep Burn - Kimberly Kincaid - 328pgs - 11/9/19
Angels & Whiskey - Kimberly Knight - 382pgs - finished - 11/10/19
Playing by Her Rules - Amy Andrews - 162pgs - Finished - 11/16/19
Collision - Cassandra Carr - 143pgs - finished - 11/28/19
Smolder: A Military Reverse Harem Romance - Cassie Cole - 336pgs - finished - 12/15/19
Rescued by Her Mountain Men - Shae Sullivan - 165pgs - Finished - 12/15/19
Frisked by Her Mountain Men - Shae Sullivan - 162pgs - Finished - 12/15/19
Shared by Her Two Cowboys - Shae Sullivan - 167pgs - Finished - 12/15/19
Seducing their Small Town Girl: A MFM Western Menage Romance - Shae Sullivan - 167pgs- Finished - 12/15/19
A Nice Boy - Rocklyn Ryder - 92pgs - finished - 12/24/19135
A Smart Choice - Rocklyn Ryder - 159pgs - finished - 12/24/19
A Great Catch - Rocklyn Ryder - 120pgs - finished - 12/24/19
A Real Keeper - Rocklyn Ryder - 135pgs - finished - 12/24/19
A Good Move - Rocklyn Ryder - 91pgs - finished - 12/24/19
A Wise Investment - Rocklyn Ryder - 120pgs - finished - 12/25/19

2. Authors Who Have Three Names
Storm Front - Susan May Warren - 336pgs - Finished - 10/13/19
Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 368pgs - finished - 10/31/19
Happy Pants Cafe - Mimi Jean Pamfiloff - 290pgs - Finished - 11/29/19
Dirty Player - Mira Lyn Kelly - 197pgs - finished - 11/23/19
The Bromance Book Club - Lyssa Kay Adams - 352pgs - finished - 12/13/19
The Unquiet Dead - Ausma Zehanat Khan - 387pgs (352+ 10% OOZ Diversity) - Finished - 12/16/19

3. Authors Who Use initials
Kissing Cowboy - J.C. Wilder - 136pgs - finished - 10/15/19
Night Stalker - B.R. Kingsolver
Dark Dancer - B.R. Kingsolver

4. Author has a Color in their name
Teach Me - Red Phoenix - 274pgs - Finished - 10/25/19
Love Me - Red Phoenix - 260pgs - Finished - 10/25/19
Catch Me - Red Phoenix - 278pgs - Finished - 10/26/19
Bound - Sasha White - 274pgs - finished - 11/9/19
The Strawberry Hearts Diner - Carolyn Brown - 288pgs - Finished - 11/22/19

5. Authors with Sequential Initals (R S; S R etc)
The Fountains of Silence - Ruta Sepetys - 512pgs - Finished - 11/9/19
The Ex (purchased July 28. 2016) - 304pgs - Finished - 11/28/19

6. Has Q, X, Z in their name
Wildfire Sea Dragon - Zoe Chant - 275pgs - finished - 11/24/19
Must Love Breeches - Angela Quarles - 306pgs - Finished - 12/29/19
Hector - Zoe Chant - 244pgs - Finished - 12/28/19

Stage 10 -- Authors
Goal: 5468 p.
Tasks: up to 7
OOZ: Non fiction
Pages Completed: 5614 p.

1. New To Me
The Shadowy Horses 1/25/20 421p.
The Vines 1/31/20 217p.
The Summer House 2/5/20 279p.
Fahrenheit 451 2/14/20 190p.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2/20/20 388p.
In the Woods 2/28/20 429p.
My Life as a White Trash Zombie 3/31/20 320p.
Worth the Risk 4/2/20 210p.
Nuts 4/22/20 308p.
A Dog's Purpose 4/27/20 304p.
Whiskey Sour 5/5/20 289p.
Cold Waters 5/22/20 326p.
Marked 5/26/20 319p.

2. Nora Roberts

3. Ilona Andrews
One Fell Sweep 1/25/20 332p.
Sweep of the Blade 2/8/20 322p,
Iron and Magic 3/19/20 392p.
Sweep with Me 4/7/20 140p.

4. Kristen Ashley
Rock Chick Redemption 3/20/20 428p.

Pick 'n' Mix (2019) ~~ Stage 10 Authors ~~ COMPLETE
January - December 2019

Page Goal: 5,000 Total Pages Read: 5,019
Out of the Zone: classic or literary fiction

Task limit is 8

Stage 10 Authors (msg 18)

Authors with First or Last Intitial L or H (son #1)

🔹Can't Stand the Heat ~ Louisa Edwards ~ 368 pp ~ 11.24 ★★★
🔹The Promise of Surrender ~ Liliana Hart ~ 120 pp ~ 10.06 ★★★
🔹Scorch ~ Liliana Hart ~ 300 pp ~ 12.03 ★★★★
🔹Trouble Maker ~ Liliana Hart ~ 177 pp ~ 11.20 ★★★★
🔹Driven to Distraction ~ Lori Foster ~ 384 pp ~ 11.30 ★★★★
🔹My Lucky Charm ~ Lisa Mondello ~ 191 pp ~ 11.08 ★★★
🔹Ham Bones ~ Carolyn Haines ~ 305 pp ~ 11.13 ★★★★
🔹Yellowstone Awakening ~ Peggy L. Henderson ~ 290 pp ~ 11.30 ★★★
🔹Counterpoint ~ Shay Lacy ~ 189 pp ~ 12.22 ★★★
🔹Offbeat Love Stories and More ~ Jennifer K. Lafferty ~ 232 pp ~ 11.12 ★★
🔹After Shock ~ C.J. Lyons ~ 111 pp ~ 11.30 ★★★

Authors with First or Last Intitial N or D (son #2)

🔹Accidental Bride ~ Noelle Adams ~ 187 pp ~ 12.05 ★★★
🔹The Quietest Woman in the South ~ Nancy Radke ~ 101 pp ~ 12.07 ★★★
🔹Year One ~ Nora Roberts ~ 419 pp ~ 11.08 ★★★★
🔹The Graveyard Book ~ Neil Gaiman ~ 336 pp ~ 12.117 ★★★
🔹A Dundee Christmas ~ Brenda Novak ~ 93 pp ~ 12.20 ★★★
🔹Coulda Been a Cowboy ~ Brenda Novak ~ 288 pp ~ 12.19 ★★★
🔹Too Wilde to Tame ~ Janelle Denison ~ 335 pp ~ 11.27 ★★★
🔹Classified Christmas ~ B.J. Daniels ~ 256 pp ~ 12.08 ★★★
🔹Eleventh Grave in Moonlight ~ Darynda Jones ~ 321 pp ~ 12.14 ★★★★

Stage 10: Authors , opened 9/24

Goal 1225 pages, up to 5 tasks

1. favorite authors - I've given at least 2 of their books 4 stars or more
Her Dark Curiosity(The Madman's Daughter #2), Megan Shepherd, 422 pages - fin 11/3
So Lucky, by Emma Donoghue,180 pages - fin 11/5
Landing, by Nicola Griffith, 336 pages - fin 11/22

2. authors new to me
The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill, 323 pages - fin 11/11

Total pages read: 1261
COMPLETED 11/22

completed
2353/2234

Stage 10: Authors
Goal =2,234 5% of 44,686

New to Me
✔ The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I. Hitchcock19 October 2019 ★★★★ 672 (audio)
✔ Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin 25 October 2019 ★★★★ 395 (audio)



At least one initial in: CHRISTINA
✔ Trapped by Kevin Hearne 20 October 2019 ★★★ 290 (audio)
✔ A Will and a Way by Nora Roberts 17 November 2019 ★★★★ 288 (audio)
✔ Kitty Rocks the House by Carrie Vaughn 21 November 2019 ★★★★ 324 (audio)
✔ Hunted by Kevin Hearne 28 November 2019 ★★★ 384 (audio)

Stage 10: Authors
Goal - 2,202 pages (up to 5 tasks)

**OotZ Goal - Nobel Winner OR Women's Prize/Man Booker shortlisted

Pages Completed: 2,202
Pages Remaining: -

1. Initial A:
9/2/20 Sanditon 240pp (Jane Austen)
4/4/20 Portrait of a Murderer 240pp (Anne Meredith)

2. First language is not English:
28/1/20 Mr Darwin's Gardener 112pp (Finnish)
8/5/20 The Hotel Tito 236pp (Croatian)

3. Initial C:
**12/2/20 A Month in the Country 128pp + 10% Booker 1980 = 140pp (J L Carr)
4/2/20 A Single Thread 352pp (Tracey Chevalier)
7/2/20 The Awakening 195pp (Kate Chopin)
31/5/20 1473687918 352pp (Clare Hunter)

4. Initial S:
22/3/20 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World 305pp + 10% Booker 2019 = 335pp (Elif Shafak)

5.