Lyn (Readinghearts)’s Comments (group member since Apr 07, 2009)

Lyn (Readinghearts)’s comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.

Sounds like fun, D.G. The quote made me laugh and I know nothing about the book. :)

Susan wrote: "I completed one of my reserved scripts (author first name O), and would like to reserve T for name in title."

Sorry Susan, for some reason I missed this before. My boys are here for a week, so my focus has been hit or miss :P I will cross of first name O as finished and put you down for name in title T. :)

Susan - I have the Ink series of books, and really want to read them at some point, if I ever get caught up on my review books.

I can imagine that it would be quite disquieting to a writer to have to watch someone else twist and tweek your writing.

That is one of the things I really like about the recommending, too, D.G. If you can pick books that the others have read, it gives you someone to discuss them with. :)

Congrats to you and Lauren. :)

Your quote really paints a picture for me, Coralie. I can just see two people standing in a farmyard in the dawn hours, fighting over a water hose. Great quote. :)

Susan wrote: "from Something Rotten, p. 280

"If you even need a government," added Stig, "you are a life-form flawed beyond redemption.""

Thought provoking, for sure.

Susan - great quote and an age old issue. Would love to know how the author decides to answer that question.

That is good to know, Lynn. :)

Bea wrote: "1. As far as giving an incentive to be the first team finished with the first book, we wanted to encourage people to complete their reading, but do it in a positive way. Do you all think that this ..."

Bea - I think that you hit the nail on the head about the advantage of having multiple pickers, in both your original post and the one above.

I finally finished my recovery task. I read The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones

A well written story about the inhabitants in a small town in Kentucky whose lives intersect in a tragic way. The mystery part of the story was good, but the best part were the interesting slate of characters and what their actions tell us about human nature. Not only does the book have leaves on the cover, but it has a big red maple leaf in the middle of the cover.

D.G. wrote: "1. As far as giving an incentive to be the first team finished with the first book, we wanted to encourage people to complete their reading, but do it in a positive way. Do you all think that this ..."

Thanks for the comments, D.G.

I actually hadn't thought about the fact that the 7 days might be good because participants may not be able to start a book right away. That is a good point.

Just a question for you all about the POTS game.

I have done this challenge in another group and there are two main differences between this one and the way that the other group runs it.

1. In the other group, there is no incentive to finish first, last, or at all. Members simply pick books for other members who are then "challenged" to read the book/books in the alloted amount of time. It is less of a group effort and more of a personal challenge and a way to help others choose what book to read next and pare down their huge TBRs.

2. The team members each pick for all the other team members, therefore the amount of choices you have is the amount of books that you chose to read x the amount of members in your team.

In discussing and developing this game, we thought about both of these differences. The concerns were:

1. As far as giving an incentive to be the first team finished with the first book, we wanted to encourage people to complete their reading, but do it in a positive way. Do you all think that this detracts from the purpose of the game, which is to help each other whittle down our TBRs?

2. Although having every team member pick for every other team member would give you more choices, I think, the concern here was that it would get unwieldy and complicate things if each person had to pick books for more than one person. The fear was that the time that it would take to go through three or four different people's shelves to find books for each member would be too time consuming. So my question is..How time consuming was it to pick the books for the other member? Would you rather pick for more than one person, or just one?

Additionally, it seemed that most teams picked their books pretty quickly and then were just sitting around waiting to read. Do you think 7 days was too long to leave for the picking? Would you rather have more time to read?

Bea wrote: "Hi, Lyn M. Amy and I have finished our first book. Amy completed hers, The Silent Girl, on 3/16/13, and I completed mine, Little Bee, today (3/19/13)."

The first team to finish their first book for Cycle #1 is (drumroll, please) Amt and Bea

Congrats Amy and Bea. You get to pick the theme for the next cycle. I will remind you closer to the beginning of Cycle #2!

Dee wrote: "I like the idea of teams - I kind of thought that was going to originally be how it played out...so like 4 of us signed up for 2 books...all 4 had to read at least one book and report to win"

Thanks Dee. :) Do you have any ideas about how to address the issue of one team member dropping out?

LynnB wrote: "Tien wrote: "Could you please let me know what you mean by 'semi-specific' as opposed to 'toooooo specific'? Maybe an example?"

Semi-specific is, for example, choosing a particular shelf, a "green..."

Thanks for the feedback on the POTS game, Lynn. The fact that you are relying on only one other person was certainly a concern when we were devising the game. There is a provision that the game be played in teams instead of just pairs of buddies, would that be better. BUT - with that provision, everyone in the team still had to finish the stated number of books. What I think you are saying, though, is that you would possibly prefer teams, and a minimum number of members need to finish?

I would love to hear your ideas about how to address that concern. I will think about it tonight also.


And I certainly understand your need to join in them all, lol. I always tell people I am challenge challenged. :)

Cool. I will have to decide how I want mine to look. I may have to move some books around to get a good representation. :)

I agree with LynnB, Tien, you are the master at challenges and your creativity and imagination amaze me.

As for the number of challenges. I particulary like the ability to crossover. My one other group that has great challenges, they do not allow the books to cross over and it makes it really hard because you do have to pick and choose carefully.

I'm working on a recovery task, myself. ;P

I think it would be cool. I always love to see what others have on their shelves, and how they organize their books. It gives me ideas.....which as you know, can be a dangerous thing.

Tien wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "What a great idea, Tien."

Thanks, Lyn... you'd be sending in your shelf too, of course? ;p"

Didn't think I had a choice, lol, so yes! My shelf is really quite rustic, though. But I was already thinking about what shot I wanted to send. :)