Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Note: Please ignore the number after the task's title. It is just a variation number & how the mods are keeping track of the tasks.

📅 November tasks: 📅

1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November.
You need only read from 1 shelf but if you like, you can read from all these shelves or crossover between this month's shelves

Nov-08 historical-fiction
Nov-09 Asian
Nov-10 time-travel
Nov-11 childhood
Nov-12 french-literature
Nov-13 animals
Nov-14 life-changers
Nov-15 translated
Nov-16 witches
Nov-17 sequels
Nov-18 retellings
Nov-19 lesbian
Nov-20 conspiracy-theory

2. Last Month 4: Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors" (link found on author's page, above book list)

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf

4. Recommendation 4: Go to https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended

5. Recent Release: Read book/s published in 2020

Plans:

Simple Plan: Meet / exceed your Goal

Completed Plan: Meet / exceed your Goal AND complete all 5 monthly tasks

Ultimate Plan: Meet / exceed your Goal AND complete all 5 monthly tasks with Random Letter Generator*

*https://randomwordgenerator.com/lette...
Generate a letter per month and for that month, read book/s where title and/or author's first/last name begins with that letter

Amy

Bea

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Elvenn

Jayme(the ghost reader)

Joyce

June

Lauren

LaurLa

Lusie

LynnB

Marie (UK)

Marina

Meg

Nat

Snowtulip

Susan

Tien

📅 November tasks: 📅

Completed Plan: Meet / exceed your Goal AND complete all 5 monthly tasks

Progress: 2,697/2,500 pages as at 12/26

1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November.
You need only read from 1 shelf but if you like, you can read from all these shelves or crossover between this month's shelves

368p - Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars #2) -Read 12/24

Nov-08 historical-fiction - Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars #2)
Nov-09 Asian - Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars #2)
Nov-10 time-travel
Nov-11 childhood
Nov-12 french-literature
Nov-13 animals - Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars #2)
Nov-14 life-changers
Nov-15 translated - Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars #2)
Nov-16 witches
Nov-17 sequels - Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars #2)
Nov-18 retellings - Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars #2)
Nov-19 lesbian
Nov-20 conspiracy-theory

2. Last Month 4: Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors" (link found on author's page, above book list)

Kylie Lee Baker
>Julie Kagawa
464p - Shadow of the Fox (Shadow of the Fox #1) -Read 11/15

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf

308p - Zodiac -Read 11/04
240p - My Sister, the Serial Killer -Read 11/08
352p - Her Pretty Face -Read 11/18

4. Recommendation 4: Go to https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended

Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2)
380p - Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy #1) -Read 12/26

5. Recent Release: Read book/s published in 2020

272p - Piranesi -Read 11/01
313p - The Kingdom of Back -Read 11/25

Let's Book It, November

Completed Plan: Meet / exceed your Goal (5 books) AND complete all 5 monthly tasks

November tasks:

1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November.
You need only read from 1 shelf but if you like, you can read from all these shelves or crossover between this month's shelves

Nov-08 historical-fiction
Dear Miss Kopp, Amy Stewart, 2 Nov 2021
The Last Bookshop in London, Madeline Martin, 5 Nov 2021
Nemesis, Philip Roth, 5 Nov 2021
The Girl They Left Behind, Roxanne Veletzos, 6 Nov 2021
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts, Therese Anne Fowler, 12 Nov 2021
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Apostolos Doxiadis, 21 Nov 2021
Nov-09 Asian
Nov-10 time-travel
Nov-11 childhood
Rainbow Valley, L.M. Montgomery, 16 Nov 2021
Nov-12 french-literature
Nov-13 animals
What the Cat Dragged In, Miranda James, 1 Nov 2021
Nov-14 life-changers
Nov-15 translated
Nov-16 witches
Nov-17 sequels
Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry, 1 Nov 2021
The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman, 20 Nov 2021
Nov-18 retellings
Nov-19 lesbian
Nov-20 conspiracy-theory

2. Last Month 4: Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors" (link found on author's page, above book list)
Laura Childs -> Jenn McKinlay
One for the Books, 7 Nov 2021

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K. Jerome, 27 Nov 2021

4. Recommendation 4: Go to https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended
---The Scarlet Pimpernel last 5 star read
Rainbow Valley, L.M. Montgomery, 16 Nov 2021

5. Recent Release: Read book/s published in 2020
One for the Books, Jenn McKinlay, 7 Nov 2021, pub Sept 2020
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life, Jonathan Alter, 10 Nov 2021, pub Sept 2020
The Sweeney Sisters, Lian Dolan, 15 Nov 2021, pub Apr 2020

November tasks: 📅

Plan: Simple
Goal: 3
Books read: 1


1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November.
You need only read from 1 shelf but if you like, you can read from all these shelves or crossover between this month's shelves

Nov-08 historical-fiction
Nov-09 Asian
Nov-10 time-travel
Nov-11 childhood
Nov-12 french-literature
Nov-13 animals
Nov-14 life-changers
Nov-15 translated
Nov-16 witches
Nov-17 sequels
Nov-18 retellings Spinning Silver
Nov-19 lesbian
Nov-20 conspiracy-theory

2. Last Month 4: Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors" (link found on author's page, above book list)
Michael McConnelly - John Grisham or Jo Nesbo
Soren Sveistrup - Harlan Coben or Irene Nemirovsky
Harlan Coben - Lisa Jewell or Shari Lapena
Cherie Dimalie - Naomi Novik Spinning Silver - 14 Nov
Stephen King - Gillian Flynn Sharp Objectsor Donna Tartt
Brandon Sanderson- Robin Hobb or Joe Abercombie
Jim Butcher - John Gwynne or Kevin Anderson

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
Still Life/Skyward/Dear Justyce/Elatsoe/Tooth and Claw/The Dragon Blood Collection, Books 1-3/ A Thousand Ships

4. Recommendation 4: Go to https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended

5. Recent Release: Read book/s published in 2020

Let's Book it November ✔

Completed Plan: Meet / exceed your Goal AND complete all 5 monthly tasks
Read: 10/10 books

✔ 1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November.
You need only read from 1 shelf but if you like, you can read from all these shelves or crossover between this month's shelves

Nov-08 historical-fiction
Not Quite a Husband (The Marsdens #2) [10-nov-2021] ★★
Nov-09 Asian
Nov-10 time-travel
Nov-11 childhood
Nov-12 french-literature
Nov-13 animals
Nov-14 life-changers
Nov-15 translated
Nov-16 witches
Nov-17 sequels
Temptation Ridge (Virgin River #6) [3-nov-2021] ★★★
The Girl in the Cabin: A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery [4-nov-2021] ★★★★
Lou in Lockdown [6-nov-2021] ★★★★
Maybe Not [14-nov-2021] ★
Maybe Now [20-nov-2021] ★★★
Nov-18 retellings
Nov-19 lesbian
Nov-20 conspiracy-theory

✔ 2. Last Month 4: Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors" (link found on author's page, above book list)
Richelle Mead ->A ​Court of Silver [10-nov-2021] ★★★★
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Melissa Bashardoust -> Alone by Lisa Gardner
Dea Poirier|17754995] -> StrandedStranded by Sarah Goodwin
Flames|53138095] by Sarah J. Maas
Nora Roberts|625] -> Wild Irish Heart by Tricia O'Malley (hide spoiler)]

✔ 3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
Swept Away [28-nov-2021] ★★
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✔ 4. Recommendation 4: Go to https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended
Last 5 star read: The Love Hypothesis -> Ace of Spades [24-nov-2021] ★★★
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✔ 5. Recent Release: Read book/s published in 2020
The Boyfriend Project (The boyfriend project #1) [16-nov-2021] ★★

Ultimate Plan
5 books F

✔1 Nov-08 historical-fiction
From the Wreck
✔2 Michelle de kretser
Fishing for Tigers
✔3 Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
✔4 galaxy and the ground within
Fledgling
✔5 First Person Singular: Stories

Let's Book It - November
Goal: 1,000 pages - Simple Plan - COMPLETED 28/11

1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November.
✔ Nov-08 historical-fiction - Jamaica Inn - 302 p. - read 14/11
✔ Nov-12 french-literature - Parigi nel XX secolo - 100 p. - read 28/11
✔ Nov-13 animals - La mia famiglia e altri animali - 352 p. - read 23/11

✔ 3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf - Gli amici silenziosi - 318 p. - read 19/11

Total: 1,072/1,000

Let's Book It - November
Simple Plan
4 books

1. Revisit - Historical Fiction: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

2. Revisit - Witches: Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell

3. Last Month 4 (Patricia Briggs): One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

4. Pick-a-shelf 2: Year One by Nora Roberts

Let's Book It November
Simple Plan 3
Historical Fiction
The Case of the Spellbound Child
completed 11/14/21
Retellings
One Good Knight
Animals
Hounded: The Lowdown on Life from Three Dachshunds

November tasks - DONE!
Completed
Goal: 8 books

1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November

Nov-08 historical-fiction - Trell - Completed 11/9/21
Nov-09 Asian - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur - Completed 11/20/21
Nov-10 time-travel
Nov-11 childhood
Nov-12 french-literature
Nov-13 animals - A Borrowing of Bones - Completed 11/13/21
Nov-14 life-changers
Nov-15 translated
Nov-16 witches
Nov-17 sequels - Good Girl, Bad Blood - Completed 12/10/21
Nov-18 retellings - Rook - Completed 12/17/21
Nov-19 lesbian
Nov-20 conspiracy-theory

2. Last Month 4: Pick an author you read last month (Kevin Wignall) and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors" (Gregg Andrew Hurwitz) - The Crime Writer - Completed 11/21/21

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf - Fifty Fifty - Completed 12/30/21

4. Recommendation 4: Go to https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - Completed 11/23/21

5. Recent Release: Read book/s published in 2020 - Good Girl, Bad Blood - Completed 12/10/21

Goal: 5 Books
Plan: Simple +
Random letter: A

✔︎ 1. Revisit: Historical Fiction
Book: An Irish Hostage by Charles Todd
Date read: October 31, 2021
Rating: 3 Stars

2. Revisit: Witches
Book: With Everything I Am by Kristen Ashley
Date read:
Rating

✔︎ 3. Last Month: Carola Dunn
Book: The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters (Amelia Peabody #3)
Date read: 27 November, 2021
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 4. Recommendation 4: Secret Desires of a Gentleman
Book: Tightrope by Amanda Quick
Date read: 23 December, 2021
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 5. Recent Release:
Book: Cold Wicked Lies by Toni Anderson
Date read: October 28, 2021
Rating: 4 Stars

Completed Challege
Goal: 5 books

1. Revisit
Time travel: Doomsday Book
Witches: Practical Magic
Retellings: The Wrath and the Dawn
Lesbian: Fingersmith, The Price of Salt, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

2. Last Month 4
Ursula L Ke Guin -> Dune, something by Terry Pratchett, Rendezvous with Rama
Catherynne M. Valente -> The Death of the Necromancer
Seth Dickinson -> Ancestral Night, God's War

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2
Hangsaman
The Bird King
Children of Blood and Bone
The Silent Companions

4. Recommendation 4
The Gone World -> Children of Time, Annihilation
The Dispossessed -> China Mountain Zhang, Ubik

5. Recent Release
The Only Good Indians 11/16

Random Letter G

1. Shelves retellings Geekerella OR Scarlet
2. Naomi Novik read last month A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
3. on PAS bookshelf News of a Kidnapping
4. I cannot find anything it is like repeating number 2 with title rather than author
5.

I may not do this

November
Goal: 5 books
Plan: Complete

✔︎1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November.
You need only read from 1 shelf but if you like, you can read from all these shelves or crossover between this month's shelves

Nov-08 historical-fiction
The Huntress, 12/10/21, 4 stars

✔︎2. Last Month 4: Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors" (link found on author's page, above book list)
Happily Letter After, 11/4/21, 3 stars

✔︎3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
Riot Baby, 11/5/21, 4 stars

4. Recommendation 4: Go to https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended
Cemetery Boys

✔︎5. Recent Release: Read book/s published in 2020
500 Miles from You, 11/4/21, 3 stars

📅 November tasks: 📅 - COMPLETED

Goal: 2000 pages
Simple

2000/2000

1. Revisit: Nov-18 retellings
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold 11/24/21 442 pages

2. Last Month 4:
T. Kingfisher- got Alix E Harrow
The Once and Future Witches 11/5/21 517 pages

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 11/18/21 416 pages
Touch the Dark 11/12/21 307 pages
The Giver 11/15/21 258 pages

completed 23 December
November
Simple
5 Books

1. Revisit:

✔ Nov-10 time-travel: A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor 3 December 2021 ★★★★★



✔ Nov-18 retellings: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert 13 December 2021 ★★★



3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf

✔ Year One by Nora Roberts 7 December 2021 ★★★★
✔ A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown 23 December 2021 ★★★★
✔ On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle 6 November 2021 ★★★

Let's Book It! (2021)
November - December 2021

My November Plan (msg 20)

Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Complete plan

November Tasks:

🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹

1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for November
✔🔹historical-fiction - The Governess Game - 11.06 ★★★★
✔🔹sequels - Law Man - 12.09 ★★★★
✔🔹sequels - Since I Fell for You - 11.04 ★★★★

2. Last Month 4 - Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors"
✔🔹Alexandra Ivy - Rebecca Zanetti - Vampire
✔🔹Lauren Blakely - Vi Keeland/Penelope Ward - Not Pretending Anymore - 11.29 ★★★★
✔🔹Samantha Chase - Jane Porter - Christmas at Copper Mountain - 12.26 ★★★

3. Pick-a-Shelf 2 - Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
✔🔹Getting Played - 12.31 ★★★★

4. Recommendation 4 - Go to whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended
✔🔹The Will - The Wall of Winnipeg and Me - 12.13 ★★★★

5. Recent Release - Read book/s published in 2020
✔🔹The Somerset Girls - 12.19 ★★★★
✔🔹When You Kiss Me - 12.07 ★★★★

Let's Book It - Nov

Nov 1 - December 31, 2021

Goal
3 books per month

Nov 2021 monthly plan:
Completed Plan: Meet/exceed your Goal AND complete all 5 monthly tasks

✔1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for November.
You need only read from 1 shelf but if you like, you can read from all these shelves or crossover between this month's shelves
Nov-19 lesbian: Girl Mans Up - fin 12/16

✔2. Last Month 4: Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors" (link found on author's page, above book list)
The Chinese Alchemist - fin 10/4:
Dare to Die - fin 12/30

✔3. Pick-a-Shelf 2: Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
[Girl Mans Up] - fin 12/16

✔4. Recommendation 4: Go to https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended
based on Where the Crawdads Sing:
Where the Forest Meets the Stars - fin 12/31

✔5. Recent Release: Read book/s published in 2020
The Searcher, pub 10/6/2020

completed 4/4 books
completed 5/5 tasks

COMPLETED 12/31

Simple Plan, 3 books as goal, skipping 4 & 5 ~ ~ ~ (3/3 read)

1) Revisit ~ Nov-10 Time-travel -> The Paradise War ✔

2) Last Month 4 ~ Sayaka Murata -> Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case by Agatha Christie ✔

3) Pick-a-Shelf 2 -> Murder in Mesopotamia (Found on the PAS bookshelf) ✔