Pick-a-Shelf discussion

seven days of the week
seven colours of the rainbow
seven notes on a musical scale
seven seas

Snow White ran off to live with seven dwarves
seven brides for seven brothers
Sinbad the Sailor had seven voyages
Ian Fleming's created code for James Bond: 007

Read 7 books that feature 'Seven'

It could be a book or a series of books featuring a family of 7 siblings, MI7, retelling of seven brides for seven brothers, or any completed series made up of 7 books, etc

I think I am going to do either
seven days of the week and read a book for each day
or the seven seas and make the setting a country adjacent to each seas the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.

OR i might re read the chronicles of narnia series - it is such a long time since i read those

Ah...Prompt 7: Lucky Seven...I knew this game was too easy!

There are 7 continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia.

1. Asia (Japan): Kitchen
2. Africa (South Africa): A Dry White Season
3. North America (Canada): I am a Japanese Writer
4. South America (Argentina): Fever Dream
5. Antarctica: In Cold Pursuit: A Mystery from the Last Continent
6. Europe (Scotland): Rock Paper Scissors
7. Australia: Every Breath

If I choose one book whose title contains the word seven (i.e., Seveneves, do all my choices need to have 7 in the title in some format, or can I mix and match? For example, a James Bond book, one of the books from the Chronicles of Narnia (a set of 7), but not all seven of them, the seventh in a series (e.g., Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows), etc.

What about seven books all published in July? Would that work? Another thought would be books published in 2007 or simply in a year ending in 7?

I like Bea's idea but I always find it hard finding books for Asia for some reason... Can't believe that Artic and Antarctica are sometimes easier!

Fifteen for Fifteen - Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"
January 15 - December 2023 ➖ COMPLETE

My Prompt 7 Plan (msg 6)

Prompt🔹Read 7 books featuring 'Seven'

Riding Hard series🔹7 primary books



Book 1🔹Adam🔹01.31 ★★★★
Book 2🔹Grant🔹05.21 ★★★
Book 3🔹Carter🔹07.07 ★★★
Book 4🔹Tyler🔹08.08 ★★★★
Book 5🔹Ross🔹09.30 ★★★★
Book 6🔹Kyle🔹12.02 ★★★
Book 7🔹Ray🔹12.08 ★★★

Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"

My tentative plan is to read books with the numbers one to seven found intact in the title/subtitle.

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One:
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
The Second World War: Alone
The Stone Diaries
The One Who Wrote DestinyThe Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The One Hundred Nights of Hero
One Another
One Amazing Thing
No One Is Talking About This
Never Anyone But You
The Loney
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
The Friendly Ones
Eugene Onegin
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Atonement
All Together Now?: One Man's Walk in Search of His Father and a Lost England

Two:
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
The Alice Network

Three:
Three Things About Elsie
The Three Musketeers
Three Men on the Bummel
Three Continents
A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas

Four:
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Five:
When Things of the Spirit Come First
Katie Up and Down the Hall: The True Story of How One Dog Turned Five Neighbors into a Family
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
The Five Orange Pips
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City


Six:
Now We Are Six,
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,
The Sixteen Pleasures,
Pocket Playhouse: Thirty-six short entertainments,
The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters,
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases

Seven:
Seveneves,
The House of the Seven Gables (hide spoiler)]

Prompt #7: Lucky Seven

Read 7 books that feature 'Seven.' (a book or a series of books featuring a family of 7 siblings, MI7, retelling of seven brides for seven brothers, or any completed series made up of 7 books, etc)

I think I'll use this prompt to complete the Seven Sisters Series by Lucinda Riley. I've already read book #1: The Seven Sisters

✓ 1. The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters #2) Read: 4/3/23
✓ 2. The Shadow Sister by Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters #3) Read: 5/12/23
✓ 3. The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters #4) Read: 6/1/23
✓ 4. The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters #5) Read: 9/30/23
✓ 5. The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters #6) Read: 10/19/23
✓ 6. The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters #7) Read: 11/17/23
7. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt

Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"

Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"
Completed 8 Jan 2024

Read 7 books that feature 'Seven'

Think I'll do like Bea and "travel" the continents.


1. Africa - Love in Color, Bolu Babalola, 5 Jan 2024
2. Antarctica - Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins, Gavin Francis, 8 Jan 2024
3. Asia - Honor, Thrity Umrigar, 20 Feb 2023, (India)
4. Australia - Exiles, Jane Harper, 4 Feb 2023
5. Europe - The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman, 22 Jan 2023, (France/Germany)
6. North America - Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard, 25 Jan 2023, (Canada/US)
7. South America - Portrait of an Unknown Lady: A Novel, María Gainza, 21 July 2023,
(Argentina)

7 colors of the rainbow:

1. An English Murder 9/9
2. Much Ado About Nothing/She Who Became the Sun
3. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America 5/27
4. Half a Soul 3/12
5. The Mountain in the Sea 8/27
6. The Current
7. The Story of the Hundred Promises

Prompt 7: Lucky 7 - DONE!
Musical scale in title

1. Do - Things We Do in the Dark - Completed 4/1/23
2. Re - The Deepest of Secrets - Completed 4/5/23
3. Mi - My Wife is Missing - Completed 2/17/23
4. Fa - Fairy Tale - Completed 5/15/23
5. So - Someone Else's Shoes - Completed 4/23/23
6. La - Between Black and White - Completed 3/12/23
7. Ti - Scarlet Carnation - Completed 4/9/23

Prompt 7 Lucky 7
Rainbow
1 Red-
completed 08/15/23

2orange

3yellow- completed 07/17/23

4green

5blue- 06/25/23

6indigo

7purple

@Susan: mix & match is fine

To be honest, publication dates and/or number of letters in titles aren't particularly what I had in mind for this Prompt but I'll allow it

Some completed 7-book series

Jack West Jr series by Matthew Reilly
Tomorrow series by John Marsden
The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage
In Search of Lost Time series by Marcel Proust
Tradd Street series by Karen White
The Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer
Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans
7 Brides for 7 Brothers Series (each book by different authors)
Days of the Week series by Rosie Goodwin
The Serrano Legacy by Elizabeth Moon
Monday's Child series by Clare Revell
Frieda Klein series by Nicci French (first 7 days reflect 7 days of the week plus 1 extra final book)
The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix

Changing my plan again!!

Seven continents (setting in each)
✔️AFRICA - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
✔️ANTARTICA - How the Penguins Saved Veronica
✔️ASIA - The Palace of Illusions
✔️AUSTRALIA - P is for Pearl
✔️EUROPE - The Liar's Dictionary
✔️NORTH AMERICA - The Sentence
✔️SOUTH AMERICA - The Puma Years

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OLD IDEAS
❓Seven numbers (1-7 in titles)
❓Seven notes (titles start with A-G)
❓Connected to each of 7 dwarves (happy grumpy doc sneezy bashful sleepy dopey)
❓Seven Deadly sins
❓Seven wonders of the world

Despite all these thoughts, I'm going to copy Coralie's awesome idea below!

1. Do

2. Re

3. Mi
Miss Benson's Beetle

4. Fa
False Value

5. So

6. La
Larry's Party

7. Ti
(hide spoiler)]

Seven notes on the musical scale

1. Do
Dogs of War completed Jan 30
2. Re
Remember Love completed Feb 26
3. Mi
Midnight Never Come completed Feb 27
4. Fa
Fated completed Feb 28
5. So
Someone to Remember completed Feb 9
6. La
Laurus completed Feb 23
7. Ti
Time Was completed April 10

I will read read the Riding Hard series: it has 7 primary books for each sibling in the family.

good find, LaurLa!

Coralie, I love your musical scale idea! Very creative!

Tien wrote: "@Susan: mix & match is fine"

Thanks! I also really like Lagullande's idea, which could still include Seveneves but use other numbers also.

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #7: Lucky Seven posted 1/15

Read 7 books that feature 'Seven' [Mix and Match]

It could be a book or a series of books featuring a family of 7 siblings, MI7, retelling of seven brides for seven brothers, or any completed series made up of 7 books, etc

I've changed my plan on this many times. Finally settled on colors, as several others have done. Posted in completed prompts, message 167.

Susan wrote: "Tien wrote: "@Susan: mix & match is fine"

Thanks! I also really like Lagullande's idea, which could still include Seveneves but use other numbers also."

Thanks, Susan. But now I'm a bit worried that it doesn't fit with Tien's original intention for this task.....

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #7: Lucky Seven - Complete

Seven Colors of the Rainbow

✔︎ Red - Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper
Read: January 27, 2023
✔︎ Orange - Faceless by Alexandra Ivy
Read: February 3, 2023
✔︎ Yellow - Illusion Town by Jayne Castle
Read: March 15, 2023
✔︎ Green - Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross
Read: August 24, 2023
✔︎ Blue - Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann
Read: February 16, 2023
✔︎ Indigo - Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz
Read: February 19, 2023
✔︎ Violet - Tactical Strike by Kaylea Cross
Read: May 23, 2023

@Lagullande - it's fine, really, though you are welcome to adjust/change as you please :)

The task reads Read 7 books that feature 'Seven' so you'll just have to be able to explain either how each book feature 'Seven' or as a whole, how all your 7 books feature 'Seven'.

Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"

Colors of the Rainbow in the title

RED - The Red Carnelian by Phyllis A. Whitney
ORANGE - Blood Orange by Susan Wittig Albert
YELLOW - Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
GREEN - Green Eyes in Las Vegas by A.R. Winters
BLUE - Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older
INDIGO - The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead
VIOLET - Violet by Lauren Royal

Prompt 7: Lucky Seven

Read: 7/7

Complete:
Do - The Doll: The Lost Short Stories - 5/2/23
Re - Remarkably Bright Creatures - 5/16/23
Fa - The Fates Will Find Their Way - 1/22/23
So - Soulless - 5/23/23
La - The Last Colony - 5/23/23
Mi - Mirror Mirror - 1/9/24
Ti - Tipping the Velvet - 2/29/24

Tien wrote: "@Lagullande - it's fine, really, though you are welcome to adjust/change as you please :)

The task reads Read 7 books that feature 'Seven' so you'll just have to be able to explain either how each..."

I understand, Tien. Thanks for explaining. I will rethink and come up with a more suitable idea. It's a good challenge.

Fifteen for Fifteen
Prompt 7: Lucky Seven

Seven colours of the rainbow in book covers.

Red:
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery, 17 Jan 23
Orange:
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto, 17 Jan 23
Yellow:
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout, 23 Jan 23
Green:
A Meditation on Murder by Robert Thorogood, 28 Jan 23
Blue:
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, 27 Jan 23
Indigo:
The Clicking of Cuthbert by P.G. Wodehouse, 9 Feb 23

Violet:

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 7: Lucky Seven

Prompt 7

i'm going to read this series because its in KU and i'm lazy: Second Sons of London by Alexa Aston

from the series description: Welcome to Second Sons of London, a new Regency Historical Romance series by USA Today Bestselling author Alexa Aston, where seven men who are second sons lay claim to fabulous wealth and lofty titles and fulfill their destinies when they find their soulmates.

Book 1 - Educated by the Earl - finished - 2/11/23
Book 2 - Debating with the Duke - finished - 2/12/23
Book 3 - Empowered by the Earl - finished - 2/17/23
Book 4 - Made for the Marquess - finished - 2/20/23
Book 5 - Dubious about the Duke - finished - 2/21/23
Book 6 - Valued by the Viscount - finished - 2/23/23
Book 7 - Meant for the Marquess - Finished - 2/27/23

Lagullande wrote: "....I will rethink and come up with a more suitable idea."

How about this, Tien?

There are 7 countries in the G7. I will read a book predominantly set in/or an author born in each of them.... Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA.

Lagullande wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "....I will rethink and come up with a more suitable idea."

How about this, Tien?

There are 7 countries in the G7. I will read a book predominantly set in/or an author born in ..."

Lagullande, Tien is away. I think that will be fine...the 7 countries. It is on the same level as my 7 continents and the example of 7 seas/7 days of the week.

Bea wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "....I will rethink and come up with a more suitable idea."

How about this, Tien?

There are 7 countries in the G7. I will read a book predominantly set in/or..."

Thank you, Bea.

Days of the week 🙃

1. ) Blue Monday
2.) Tuesday's Gone
3.) Waiting for Wednesday
4.) Thursday's Children
5.) Friday on My Mind
6.) Dark Saturday
7.) Sunday Silence

Prompt 7 - Lucky Seven
Read 0/7

Seven colors of the rainbow

Red - Four to Score
Orange - A Mango-Shaped Space
Yellow - The Velveteen Rabbit - 1/31/23
Green - Eve and the Choice Made in Eden
Blue - Out of My Mind
Indigo - Are We There Yet?
Violet - The Fishers of Paradise

Gotta jump on the rainbow wagon

Red - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (3/18)
Orange - Dragon Hoops (3/23)
Yellow - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (2/24)
Green - Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together (4/7)
Blue - The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World (5/23)
Indigo - The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue Team (8/2)
Violet - The Sirens of Titan (8/17)

Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"

7/7 books

1. Blue Monday (Frieda Klein #1) -Read 02/07
2. Tuesday's Gone (Frieda Klein #2) -Read 02/08
3. Waiting for Wednesday (Frieda Klein #3) -Read 02/27
4. Thursday's Child (Frieda Klein #4) -Read 03/17
5. Friday on My Mind (Frieda Klein #5) -Read 04/03
6. Saturday Requiem (Frieda Klein #6) -Read 05/08
7. Sunday Silence (Frieda Klein #7) -Read 06/07

Amy wrote: "7 with 7
Musical scale in title

1. Do - Things We Do in the Dark
2. Re - The Deepest of Secrets
3. Mi - My Wife is Missing
4. Fa - [book:Fairy Tale|..."
Wow!! This is ao imaginative

MY SPOT

Going with VIBGYOR
Completed 7/7

✔️1.A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers
21/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️2.Indigo Ridge
26/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️3.[book:Blue-Eyed Devil
15/4 🌟🌟🌟

✔️.Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe6/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️5 The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop 14/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️6.Five Quarters of the Orange 15/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️7 red bird christmas by Fannie Flagg 19/4 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Fifteen in Fifteen COMPLETE
Prompt #7 - (Jan 18) Read 7 books that feature 'Seven'

I think I like the rainbow idea.

1.Red - 3/1/23
2.Orange - 2/1/23
3.Yellow- 3/2/23
4.Green- 5/30/23
5.Blue - 4/24/23
6.Indigo - 5/16/23
7.Violet - 2/5/23