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2013 December Pick It For Me! Challenge
INFORMATION NEEDED TO SIGN UPPlease sign up in this thread with the answer to the following question:
What are your plans for December?
A. Staying home with my family/friends
B. Going on a short getaway, a long weekend
C. Planning a longer trip
***If you have a preferred shelf, please list it along with your pick!***
*Participants-
A. Home
Crystal
Dee
Skandia
Gea
Elke
Katie
Elizabeth
Sandy
beppy
Daffodil
Nancy H
Larissa
Lacy
Zara
Suzanne
Alicia
Isa
Christina
Erin
Breann
Victoria
Penney
Shane
Carla_Collette
Kitten
Jaime
Nikita
Yz
Grace
Mary Ann
Joyce
Brandilyn
Lauren
Debra
MountainKat
miss butterfly
Logan
Carrie
Arena
Alexis
Angela
B. Short trip
KarenH
Nichole
Ezinwanyi
Diane ~Firefly~
c. Long Trip
Ty
Leslie
Fran
Sallie(Shuga)
Ashley
Amy J
Re-picks
Runell
December is a time when many of us get a few days off. Maybe longer for some of us. School is out, holidays are celebrated, families gather, or head for a destination spot. Just getting to sleep late for a few days can feel like a vacation! What are your plans?Picking Rules
1. Amusement Park/Disneyworld- Choose a fairy tale retelling or a book with humor in it.
2. Safari - Choose a book with an animal on the cover or in the story. Maybe a shifter romance?
3. Gambling/Vegas - Choose a book where an MC takes a chance on love and/or tries to win the girl's/guy's heart.
4. Staycation - Choose a shorter book and/or a story centered around a family or group of friends hanging out together.
5. Beach/Tropical Island - Choose a book with a HOT cover and/or a steamy story.
6. Dude Ranch - Choose a Western/Cowboy romance or a book with several 'dudes'.
7. NYC for the ball drop - Choose a Holiday romance or a new to them author for your pickee.
8. Honeymoon - Choose a romance book with a sweet, innocent, virginal character. Or the first book in a series you think your pickee would love.
December Matches*Please remember to recommend at least 4 books from your pickees tbr/preferred shelves and at least 4 new to them books*
Please pick for the person below you. The last person in a group picks for the first person on that group. For example, in the "A" group, Angela will pick for Katie and in the 'B/C" group, Fran picks for Ashley.
A Group
Katie
Dee to read 2013 arcs to review
Kitten
Breann
Brandilyn rrrc mng choices
MountainKat to read asap
Gea
Crystal December
Zara rrrc-pifm-challenge
Elke on deck shelf
Elizabeth
Sandy
beppy to-read-soon
Daffodil
Nancy H
Suzanne
Lacy
Larissa
Alicia
Erin
Christina
Isa
Shane
Victoria pick-it-for-me
Penney
Nikita
Carla-collette
Mary Ann tbr-owned-kindle-books
Yz the Whyz
miss butterfly (private profile)
Jaime
Grace
Joyce
Lauren 2013-pifm
Debra
Alexis
Arena on deck
Logan on deck
Carrie soonish or up next
Angela
B and C groups
Ashley
Nichole
ezinwanyi-for-you-agron
KarenH can't wait to read
Skandia
Amy J
Ty
Leslie
Diane Firefly
Sallie(shuga) Rrr -meet&greet shelf
Fran PIFM shelf
Sassafrass
Their own group
Runell
Shelby
Another awesome group
Nadine books-on-deck-to-read
Gigi rrr-pickforme
macwolf01-(elise)
I'm a C - planning a longer trip home to New Orleans to be with my kids and other family!
I'm an C...going to take the kids to visit their Great-Grandma in Florida :) She's 94!
Please us my PIFM shelf
I am in!! Please also pick from my "on deck" shelf!A: staying home with family and friends!
Long trip....going home to Atlanta, GeorgiaPlease use my Rrr -meet&greet shelf
Staying home and hosting lots of family coming for all the holidays!
I'm a B - spending Christmas with family, but doing it at my sister's house about 50 miles away and staying there for a couple of days.Please pick from my cant-wait-to-read shelf. Thanks!
Can I still get in this one?? I'm staying home :(((
Isa wrote: "Can I still get in this one?? I'm staying home :((("yep. Sign ups will remain open until November 23rd (9 pm EST).
I'm in! I'm staying home for Christmas since it's in the middle of the week. But I'm going to the in-laws for the weekend after. So you can put me in either A or B. Whatever you need!
Ok, I'm in. We will be staying home. Would love to go for a long weekend, but with my husband working in retail, it's impossible.
Nichole wrote: "I'm in! I'm staying home for Christmas since it's in the middle of the week. But I'm going to the in-laws for the weekend after. So you can put me in either A or B. Whatever you need!"It doesn't have to be for the holidays, any time in December....I am going to put you in B- thanks!
If the A group gets too large I will split them up and add them to B and C when I randomize :)
I'm in, and I am planning on staying at home with family, so I think that puts me in Group A. Please use my Pick It For Me shelf!
Maybe I will shake things up and have one group pick for the other....you never know ;)
This sounds so much fun. I will be staying with my family would love to have a reading challenge over the holidays.
I'm in and I guess "A" applies, although there will be many hours of driving around Michigan for visits to relatives.
I'm in! Home chilling.
Staying home this year! My baby's first Christmas :) So excited..
I'm in! I'll be staying home with family this year
Shane wrote: "This sounds so much fun. I will be staying with my family would love to have a reading challenge over the holidays."It is a lot of fun - welcome Shane!
I'm in and I'm A-staying home with the family!Please use my TBR-Owned Kindle Books shelf. Thanks! https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
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The Pick-It-For-Me Challenge (PIFM) is a reading challenge where each participant gives and receives book recommendations based on a given a set of rules. The assignment method and book selection rules change each month so it’s always new and always different.
After signups are closed, I'll put your names and any extra info I’ve required into the super secret PIFM randomizer and select someone for you to choose for. This will get posted along with the rules for the month.
While you're doing your picks, someone else is doing picks for you. Once you receive them, you pick a book off the list and get reading. To complete the challenge, you only have to read 1 (one) book but many of us end up reading more because we just can't resist a list of books to read.
In order to participate you need to either HAVE YOUR PROFILE SET TO PUBLIC (preferable), or make the person who will be giving you recommendations your friend. On top of that, I strongly recommend keeping your bookshelves updated; otherwise you might end up with a recommendation that you have already read.
Everything gets done in this thread so be sure to come back often!!!
***TIPS TO MAKE THE CHALLENGE ENJOYABLE FOR EVERYONE!***
1. Check the publishing date of the book before recommending it. To check the publishing date, from your pickee's to-read or similar shelf choose shelf settings, select "date pub" from the drop down selections and save/close the menu.
2. Check pickee's personalized shelves, especially their exclusive shelves - it could be very helpful in recommending something they want to read. A personalized shelf is one that a member has labeled themselves, for example, 'to read next', 'can't wait to read', 'favorites'.
3. Look at your pickee's 'read' shelf and see what genres they have recently read the most. That might help in choosing something they are interested in reading right now.
4. Please make sure the books you choose for your pickee are not on their 'read' shelf. Just because it isn't rated doesn't mean it wasn't read. Sometimes the reader may choose not to rate a book.
5. Although Buddy Reads are no longer going to be offered as a category, if there is a recommendation that you give your pickee that you would like to read with them, please feel free to suggest a Buddy Read with them. You can PM each other and discuss it.
6. If your pickee reads lots of books in a genre you are not familiar with (erotic romance, GLBT, YA, etc.), feel free to contact either Fran, Dee, Jane or the month's organizer and they can try to point you in the right direction for recommendations.
7. If possible, try to include a shorter book, a longer book, a new addition to their 'to-read' shelf, and and older book from their 'to-read' shelf. This gives them a variety of options to choose from. You can sort the shelves by many features - ratings, date read, date added, date published, #of pages and many other items from the shelf settings as described in tip #1. And they can be sorted by ascending or descending order as well.
8. Please choose at least 4 new titles for your pickee. These should be brand new to them and not found on any of their shelves. Part of the fun of this challenge is discovering new books to read, adding new titles to the ever-expanding tbr shelf. The remaining 4 titles should come from your pickee's tbr or preferred shelves.
IMPORTANT DATES
Sign ups will remain open until November 23rd (6 pm EST).
You’ll have until November 26th (9 pm EST) to make your recommendations.
The re-picks will be assigned afterwards.
Please do not start reading your book(s) until the first of the month. You then have the entire month to read your pick(s) and give some feedback.
If you’re new please read the PIFM Guidelines and FAQ. If you have any questions that are not addressed there, please feel free to ask!
***Please add a new comment rather than updating a previous post or your progress will likely be missed. It is also very helpful if you add more information like "I finished another pick" or "I finished my third book for this challenge" and mention if your pick was a buddy read. Thanks!***