PickPanBailSoSo

The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster | Tim Crothers

So excited to receive these from the fabulous @Cinfhen and her #pickpanbailsoso giveaway. Had a slight moment when the package arrived in a Royal Mail 'already damaged when it got to the UK, not our fault' plastic bag, and saw the envelope was wide open 😳, but thankfully nothing damaged inside. Thank you so much, Cindy! Looking forward to all of them, especially the Queen of Katwa! And I'd love to know what the bookmark says!

rockpools P.S. Mr Penumbra really does glow in the dark! 😎(It's the little things!) 7y

MinDea 👏👏👏👏👏 7y

emilyhaldi Awesome!! 7y

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LeahBergen Lovely! 👏🏻👏🏻 7y

Cinfhen I‘m happy it arrived, but sorry it arrived damaged 😫I did include tea & chocolates but I guess they got lost 😥😥believe it or not they don‘t sell padded mailers in this country!!!!! The bookmark says Take time to enjoy the moment (I think) my Hebrew is still a work in progress 😘😘😘 7y

Kalalalatja What lovely books! 7y

rockpools @Cinfhen Oh boo! ☹️I was hoping the damage was just bad handling. Thank you for sending tea & chocs as well 💕 - lets hope they sweeten up whoever found them. I'm very grateful for the books & looking forward to seeing if/where our pick/pan/soso s match up! 😉And thanks for the translation 👍 7y

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Wbabdullah

The Giveaway: The True Story of One Soul's Journey | Malini Pamela Benda

#pickpanbailsoso #pickpanbailsosogiveaway

Thanks @Cinfhen for this giveaway! Here are some of my most memorable reads from this year. I‘m not usually a bailer but I panned for a little too long in Americanah and decided that it just wasn‘t for me. She has a beautiful writing style and way with words but the plot was not for me. Looks like all my picks for this giveaway are written by women! Girl power!

Cinfhen Nice picks💚happy new year... 7y

tricours Bail on Americanah? 😱 7y

Wbabdullah Happy New Year @Cinfhen Yeah @tricours I know everybody in the world seemed to love Americanah but the plot wasn‘t doing anything for me but annoying me, and I was more than halfway through. I found another Litten who felt the same. Just couldn‘t spend more time hoping the narrative would change. 7y

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tomes4gnomes

The Crossing Places: A Ruth Galloway Investigation 1 | Elly Griffiths

@Cinfhen Congratulations on your Litsy milestone! Here is my #PickPanBailSoSo for 2017 (I bail a lot more often these days, but rarely pan, probably because I already bailed!):

Pick: The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
Pan: Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black
Bail: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
So-so: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Thanks for celebrating with a giveaway — so nice of you!

Cinfhen I also had very few pans, probably for the same reason❣️Although sometimes I‘ve gone back to a bail and it ends up becoming a five star read...that happened this year with

Commonwealth

eanderson ❤️ Loved the Crossing Places 7y

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mrp27

Anya's Ghost | Vera Brosgol

#pickpanbailsoso graphic novel style.

It was definitely a year of reading outside of my normal genres with the reading of gn's and I enjoyed the journey. I rarely bail so no bails for me although I seriously contemplated bailing on Ghostworld. Thanks for the fun #giveaway @Cinfhen !

EvieBee I really disliked Ghostworld, too and almost bailed on it as well. 7y

mrp27 @EvieBee Glad I'm not alone. I think perhaps if I was 20 years younger and still feeling angsty I may have liked it more. 7y

Cinfhen I‘ve tried several times with comics...just not my thing 🙄thanks for sharing your hits and misses💗 7y

Cinfhen Happy new year 😘😘 7y

mrp27 @Cinfhen Welcome, it was fun! Happy New Year to you and your family as well! 7y

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LazyOwl

Giveaway | Tod Goldberg

@Cinfhen thanks for the great giveaway.

These are my choices. I tend to struggle with classics, hence why I bailed on A Study in Scarlet.

#pickpanbailsoso

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FantasyChick

A Year in Books: 52 Weeks : 52 Books | Lyall F. Harris

Great #giveaway @Cinfhen I think I bail more than I pan, but I finally found one!!! I still think Final Girls is my top book for this year! Thanks again 🤗🤗🤗

#pickpanbailsosogiveaway #pickpanbailsoso

Hope I got the tags right, lol

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Morr_Books

The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas

@Cinfhen is having a #giveaway! This is my #pickpanbailsoso. I rarely bail on books, so I don't have one of those. #pickpanbailsosogiveaway

Cinfhen Really? You didn‘t like Tornado Weather? I thought it was good. A little offbeat and a strange ending, but I was impressed by this debut author. Thanks for sharing your choices 7y

Morr_Books @Cinfhen I did want to like it, but I thought it was too disjointed. It started off as an intriguing thriller but then the author seemed to get sidetracked from that to talk about the town drama and characters that I lost care for the initial thriller. The end was also not great. 7y

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starlight97

The Giveaway Box | Michael Dostillio

Congratulations @Cinfhen for reaching a Litsy milestone! Here are my #PickPanBailSoSo choices! #HouseOfPenance is both pan and bail because I finished the third book but didn't continue the series. It was too weird and hard to follow.

Cinfhen I love the calligraphy 💗💗💗and I‘m looking forward to reading Rupi Kaur‘s new poetry collection 7y

starlight97 @Cinfhen I'm sure you'll love it :) 7y

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Debiw781

Giveaway | Tod Goldberg

@Cinfhen is having a #giveaway! Hop over to her page to see the rules/timeframes and pick your #pickpanbailsoso book choices for the year. Here are my picks this year for the #pickpanbailsosogiveaway

Cinfhen Ha, my so-so was your pan...and truthfully I was close to giving it a pan, too

Dept. of Speculation

Debiw781 @Cinfhen i listened to it on audio and it would have been a bail if I'd had any other options at that moment 😂 7y

DGRachel I wish I had bailed on Saturn Run. That was so very, very disappointing. 7y

Debiw781 @DGRachel I tried and tried to read it but I would actually stop to do things like cleaning because I hated it so much. 7y

Cinfhen Hahaha 😂😂😂 7y

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Avanders

The Honours | Tim Clare

@Cinfhen #pickpanbailsoso #pickpanbailsosogiveaway (yes, I know my "pan" pick is controversial ?)

Cinfhen Is your pan a new emoji?!? It's awesome 💟 thanks for playing 🙌🏻 7y

Lwiesman I tried baby wise with my first one and no!!! 7y

Avanders @Cinfhen lol yes! I love the new iPhone emoji 😄But I know they're not always visible to others.. nice when we can show them. 😁 @Lwiesman yeah... the book was so defensive and aggressive (at the same time!)... 😳 7y

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