Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Yes, that's what we were talking about. :)

I just don't read fast enough to complete it and I like participate in challenges where at least I have a shot. :)

Sherri wrote: "I think they're referring to The Seasonal Reading Challenge. It's a little overwhelming for me. When I read the rules and tasks, I almost started hyperventilating. lol It seems like something I'd h..."

Wow...that is some challenge! It's like zombies on steroids. I can see why some find it overwhelming.

Sherri wrote: "When I read the rules and tasks, I almost started hyperventilating. lol It seems like something I'd h..."

ha ha ha! I have to admit that I gave the rules only cursory looks. The main thing was to make sure books have enough number of pages and my books usually do. When I'm contemplating something short then I'd recheck the rules. Stuff like that... I have to admit though that I've been participating on and off since nearly the beginning of it all. To begin with, it really wasn't that complex! But, as the number of people participating increased, they needed to adjust so it's fair to all & can be checked easily.

Okay, Okay. I've finally gotten around to deciding I can do this one again this year. So, here's my list:

1. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout - Read 5/17

2.Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money - Read 6/1

3. The Paris Wife

4. Please Look After Mom - read 7/30/13

5. Embassytown - I gave it 100 pages, but I just couldn't do it.

6. Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery- Read 8/5/13

7. Zoo City - read 8/13/13

8.
My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store - Removed because I have realized I no longer care.

9. House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home - Read 8/22/13

10. Nerd Do Well - Read 9/1/13

11. The American Heiress - Added to replace Embassytown.

12. The House At Riverton - Added to Replace My Korean Deli.

Adrienne wrote: "Okay, Okay. I've finally gotten around to deciding I can do this one again this year."

You're starting later than most of us although most of us have a list but haven't even started reading yet, lol. Good luck! I see a number of NF on your list. Let me know how you find My Korean Deli - I've got that on TBR :)

Adrienne, I loved The Paris Wife!

Woo Hoo! One down.

I read by Philip Connors. I really enjoyed this one. A lot of that might be because I've been to some of the areas he talks about. Connors is a Forest Service lookout in Southern New Mexico four months a year. His descriptions of the landscape are beautiful, and he manages to make Forest Service history not mind-numbingly boring.

Adrienne wrote: "Woo Hoo! One down.

I read by Philip Connors. I really enjoyed this one. A lot of that might be because I've been to some o..."

yay! great work, Adrienne! Keep it up :)

Finished book number 2! Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money

On a roll!

My 10 books I will be reading (trying to) will be:

1) Sacred Sins by Nora Roberts - read 06.10.13
2) The Search for Joyful: A Mrs. Mike Novel by Benedict Freedman - could not finish, added an 11th book
3) Life Support by Tess Gerritsen could not finish, added 12th book
4) Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen could not finishe, added 13th book
5) The Amber Room by Steve Berry
6) Speak No Evil by Allison Brennan
7) The Next Best Thing by Kristan Higgins
8) The You I Never Knew by Susan Wiggs
9) A Dog Named Christmas by Greg Kincaid
10) Christmas with Tucker by Greg Kincaid
11) Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him by Luis Carlos Montalván read 06.24.13

Could not finish my 2nd book, so I added an 11th to my list.

Good work, Adrienne. I'm trying to push myself to pick up my 6th book. Hopefully, sometime this week :)

Welcome, Julia! Dust off those books and get the read ;)

I got stalled in my first book and haven't been able to finish it. I listened to 16 hours of the audiobook straight and now I can't seem to be able to finish the last 4 hours!! Grrr!

D.G. wrote: "I got stalled in my first book and haven't been able to finish it. I listened to 16 hours of the audiobook straight and now I can't seem to be able to finish the last 4 hours!! Grrr!"

oh no, is that the book's fault or technical problem or you just don't have the time to listen atm?

I just lost interest after a while. But I'll force myself to finish it this week.

I finished Rainbows End, and gave it 4 stars. My review here . That's 6 down out of my first 10, 8 of the 30 I'd set as a goal for the year. I really should have finished 15 by the end of June, but at this rate, I don't think that's going to happen.

I started reading for my L.O.S.T. challenge and I have to say I'm a little disappointed in this book. I think this may be the 1st NR book that IMO is just ok. There doesn't seem to be any meat on the bones compared her other writings. I'll finish it out, hopefully it gets better (I'm on page 117).

Finished my first book and started my second! I'm on a roll!

hang in there, Julia, though if it's really not worth it - don't waste too much time on it...

Go, DG!

Finished my 6th, got 7 & 8 out of the library and hopefully starting 7 tonight or tomorrow :)

Thanks Tien, it's not too bad so I'll finish it out. Sounds like you're on quite the roll.

DG - I'm right behind you, hope to finish my first book today and start on my second.

Thanks Tien & Julia. Both books are over 500+ pgs and I always have problems reading those. The rest are shorter so I hope I won't have the same problem!

Once I'm done with book #2, I hope to start with #3, which also happens to fit the Mt. TBR AND Book-A-Fort. I love killing 3 birds with one stone!

Finished reading Sacred Sins for the LOST challenge, now back to the "death" shelf - back to , book 2 of the hunger games.

yay, 7th book down, halfway through 8th (on audio), and have 9th out from library! Happy I'm on a really good roll

though had to wonder which other challenges are suffering from this! ha ha ha... oh wells...

Currently reading by Benedict Freedman. I read Mrs. Mike by the same authors and I loved it! It's one of my favorite books EVER! I hope to enjoy "The Search For Joyful" just as much.

I'm reading (trying to read) , but so far I'm really not enjoying it. The writing is so different from the previous book, , that it's hard to believe that the same authors wrote it. I'm trying, but I don't know if I'll be able to finish.

I have finished my eighth book.s I own the last two I have no excuses for not reading them.

You go Coralie!! I'm struggling with my 2nd :(

Halfway done! 5 down, 5 to go. Yay!

Yay Lynn!!

I was not able to finish my 2nd book "The Search For Joyful", so I added an 11th book to my list. I'm going to start my 3rd book from my list, Life Support by Tess Gerritsen. I've read several books by her, so I shouldn't have any problems with this one.

LynnB wrote: "Halfway done! 5 down, 5 to go. Yay!"

Yay! Good work, Lynn! You're on track :)

Waiting for my L.O.S.T. books to be delivered from the library. While I'm waiting, I'm reading , which has also been on my TR shelf for about 2 years. So far I'm enjoying this book, but I'm getting a little disillusioned with our govt.

Finished reading "Until Tuesday", which I thoroughly enjoyed. Still waiting for my other L.O.S.T. books to come from the library.

I got totally bogged down in new books from the library that had to be read and returned, so I STILL haven't got to book number 3. It's up soon, though.

Started reading by Tess Gerritsen for my L.O.S.T challenge, but got sidetracked by , which I started reading for the July Adventure challenge. I think I'm going to have to put "LIFE SUPPORT" on the back burner until I'm finshed w/ "CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR".

I've just made a decision on give up on my 9th book :(
I just couldn't read it anymore. I think it's actually a good book but it's the wrong timing for me (I don't like knowing right from the beginning that characters will have to go through a lot of suffering etc etc etc and the end is still not certain etc etc etc - too much anxiety in reading :p)

A shame really as I loved this author's YA fantasy works and I've loved one of her adult fantasy but I just couldn't get into this one.

I've added an extra book to my LOST list to replace the above - Oscar and Lucinda

Which book was it, Tien?

I finished book #3...Woohoo!

oops, sorry, it was The Dark Mirror

yay on finishing book #3, DG :)

Oh I have that one on my shelves! Don't have any copy handy though so not sure when I'll read it.

Could not finish my 3rd & 4th books, so I'm adding a 12th and 13th to the list.....

12) The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
13) Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Lisa Scottoline

Oh my goodness! I've been reading, but I forgot to update.

I read Please Look After Mom which I really enjoyed. That poor unappreciated woman.

And I read Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery which was meh. It's easy to spot the mistakes others made after the fact.

Now, I'm reading Zoo City which is fabulous!

#3 down:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ***** (finished Aug. 8, updated Aug. 13)

Read: 3/10

Half Way Done!!!

I finished Zoo City today. Oh my goodness it is fantastic!!!

Nine down, just one more to go!

Oh so close, Coralie!!!

Coralie wrote: "Nine down, just one more to go!"

Go, Coralie! I've got one more to go too but not sure when I'll get there, sooner than later, I hope :)

Gemma wrote: "I know there's only four and a half months left in the year, but I'm gonna jump in and see how many I can knock off. Considering I've had half the books on my selected list lying around for year(s..."

When they've been around a loooonnnnng time, I feel great success just in getting any of them read. So in my mind, any you knock off that list is a success in itself!

Welcome to the challenge, Gemma! You've plenty of time to smash 10 books really though I see you have some tough chunky one (ie. Atlas Shrugged).

Loved A Tale of 2 Cities and quite enjoyed The Grapes of Wrath & Frankenstein.

I think though, any books you'd managed to take off this list will be awesome especially since they've been there for years! I know that's how I feel!

ps: understand completely what you mean about the 2nd home shop that sells them for a dollar or two! I have to continually tell myself, "No" each time I drive past! I'm really hopeless. And btw, I've just packed all my books for a move and I believe I now have more TBR books than read ones :p But! But! a Lot of the times, I'd hand my books around after I read them and not keeping track of them if I don't particularly care about having them back so many of 'my' books out there, hopefully, being loved :D

Gemma wrote: "I know there's only four and a half months left in the year, but I'm gonna jump in and see how many I can knock off. Considering I've had half the books on my selected list lying around for year(s..."

Welcome to the challenge, Gemma. Glad to see you here. Like everyone above has said, whatever books you read and clear off the list is a good thing. I have done this challenge every year and have yet to finish my list, lol. I think I have only read one book each year, but then everyone knows that any books I own become "orphans" as I am always thinking I can get to them later.

You have some great books on your list. My favorites there are Grapes of Wrath, Fahrenheit 451, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Alchemist.

Finished Good Omens. Three more to go on my first list. But I'd hoped to finish 3 lists of 10 this year. Not sure that's going to happen.

My list at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1....

Wow, three lists of 10, Susan. That is really quite a goal. I would be happy if I just got ONE list of 10 done in a year.