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2021 April Pick-It-For-Me Challenge
TIPS TO MAKE THE CHALLENGE ENJOYABLE FOR EVERYONE!Pickees
✱ To help your picker understand the type of books you like or are currently reading, please make sure your ‘read’ shelf is up to date. You can create shelves for books you DNFed (Did Not Finish) or authors that don’t work for you as well as favorite books and authors. In addition, you might consider updating your profile. You can include info about your favorite books, authors, genres, themes or tropes (or themes/tropes you dislike – i.e. secret baby).
✱ Please do not specify likes/dislikes in the sign-up thread. This information will not be included in the pairings and your pickee may not see your message and does not need to rely on that information when making picks.
Pickers
✱ Please remember this is primarily a romance readers group. Thus, most, if not all, of your picks should be romance. There are various sub genres within the romance category - Contemporary, Historical, Paranormal, Romantic Suspense, Erotica, M/M, Urban Fantasy. If your pickee reads a wide variety, you could add a non-romance as a choice.
✱ You will be using 8 picking rules to select books for you pickee. Choose at least 4 new titles for your pickee. These can be brand new to them (not found on any of their shelves) or a book found on their shelves if they've never read any of the author's work previously. The remaining 4 titles should come from your pickee's tbr, with a minimum of one from their preferred shelves if provided. Be sure to pick at least one book for each picking rule, but please limit your picks to no more than two books per rule as sometimes having too many options is worse than too few.
✱ Please remember when you are giving new recommendations, you are not limited to titles that you have read. You can choose books that are new releases, on your tbr, or titles you looked up on Goodreads or Amazon that you think your pickee would enjoy.
A few hints to help with book selection:
✱ Check the book’s publishing date. Select "date pub" from the checkbox selections and save.
✱ Check pickee's personalized shelves, especially their exclusive shelves. A personalized shelf is one the member has created. (e.g., 'to read next', 'favorites' ‘didn’t like’)
✱ Make sure the books you choose are not on their 'read' shelf. Just because it isn't rated doesn't mean it wasn't read.
✱ Look at your pickee's 'read' shelf and see what genres they have recently read or read the most. Reviewing their ‘read’ shelf might help you in choosing something they are interested in reading right now.
✱ If your pickee reads lots of books in a genre you are not familiar with (erotic romance, GLBT, YA, etc.) Contact the Mods or the month's organizer for guidance.
✱ Include a variety of books (e.g., shorter page count, new addition to their 'to-read' shelf, an older book on their 'to-read' shelf) This variety gives your pickee options when choosing the book or books they will be reading this month. Use the sort feature within their shelves to determine date a book was added, published or read; page numbers, ratings, etc.
If you want to volunteer to make repicks:
✱ We love that you want to help out, but please remember those who need picks have been waiting for a long time already. Please only volunteer if you are able to make the repicks within a few hours of the deadline. Thank you!
2021 April PIFM PairingsPlease pick for the person below you in your group. The last person in the group will pick for the first person. For example: Sonja picks for Carina and Avigail picks for Sonja.
Picks are due March 30th (9 pm US EDT)
✔️ = made picks
Anything chocolate!
✔️Sonja - pifm
✔️Carina - nextofftheshelf
✔️Suzanne - on-deck-to-read-next
✔️Maggie - to read
✔️M - pick-for-me-rrr
✔️Kel - to read
✔️Lullu - to read
Arijana - to-read
✔️☘KathyD☘ - c-m-g-45
✔️Rebecca - Audio
✔️Prinzessbtrfly - meet-greet-challenge-uf
✔️MountainKat - to-read-asap
Jess - to read
✔️Carrie - pick-me
✔️Romanticbookworm - pick-for-me
✔️Avigail - pick-my-shelf
Easter eggs and jelly beans!
✔️Louise - My shelf
✔️HeatherMarie - 0-pifm
✔️Susan A - pick from here audiobook
✔️Gabriella - pifm
✔️Fran - a-pifm-shelf - Private
Those Peeps!
✔️Mary-Megan - pifm
fr0gheartᵕ̈ ೫˚∗ - to read Private
✔️Fyre.Katz - rrc_pifm
✔️〰️Beth〰️ - rom-potential-picks
✔️LaurLa - 04-pick-me-please
✔️Rachel - to read
✔️Nancy H - to read
2021 April PIFM Picking RulesEaster is in April this year. For the first time, I have no children at home to make an Easter basket for. Even as teenagers and young adults, while they were at home, I always put together some kind of 'basket' with their favorite treats. For my sons, that's Reese's peanut butter eggs or cups. But my favorite Easter treat are Those Peeps! Not because they taste so good, although they are yummy sweet, but because they're so darn cute!
Because Peeps are my favorite I thought it would be fun to explore some of the crazy flavors that exist! Not all of these are 'Easter-y' but maybe you'll find a flavor to enjoy!!
1. PEEPS DELIGHTS
These special Peeps come in a variety of flavors including vanilla, orange sherbet, strawberry, coconut, and sugar cookie. They’re partially dipped in dark, milk, or white chocolate. Some also include fillings, like chocolate caramel swirl.
Recommend a book:
🐣 where someone eats chocolate or receives chocolate as a gift
🐣 with a mostly brown, white or black cover
🐣 that has a variety of genre tags (at least three, such as romance, mystery and fantasy)
2. COTTON CANDY PEEPS
A relatively new flavor on the Peeps scene is the ambitious cotton candy. Perfect for carnival lovers with a sweet tooth, these light pink Peeps come with little flecks of blue sugar.
Recommend a book:
🐣 with a mostly pink or blue cover
🐣 that is new author to your pickee
🐣 with an alliterative title or author name (like cotton candy)
3. SOUR WATERMELON PEEPS
This is an extra cute Peep. It’s sugary green on the outside, with a bright, bubblegum pink center -- a fun attempt at imitating an actual watermelon. It smells just like a watermelon Jolly Rancher or the watermelon-flavored Sour Patch Kids. If you love watermelon-flavored candies, this might be your jam.
Recommend a book:
🐣 with water on the cover
🐣 with a mostly green cover
🐣 with a character who imitates another character in some way
4. BUBBLE GUM PEEPS
If you hate that you can’t (or at least, shouldn’t) swallow bubble gum, then maybe these Peeps are for you.
Recommend a book:
🐣 that has bubbles or something round on the cover or bubbles mentioned in the story
🐣 that starts with the letter B
🐣 where someone does something they shouldn't
5. PARTY CAKE PEEPS
Got a party coming up? Pick up a 10-pack of these festive Peeps. They even come with colorful sprinkles for added fun.
Recommend a book:
🐣 with a 1 and 0 in the page count
🐣 with a colorful cover (at least 3 colors)
🐣 where a festive event or celebration takes place
6. RED VELVET PEEPS
Red velvet isn’t just for cupcakes and waffles. The decadent flavor was part of a Christmas-themed series, which also included hot cocoa, candy cane, and sugar cookie.
Recommend a book:
🐣 tagged Christmas, holiday or (duh) Easter
🐣 with a mostly red cover
🐣 with a sweet treat (your interpretation) on the cover
7. PANCAKES AND SYRUP PEEPS
These Pancakes & Syrup Peeps are a perfect excuse to eat sweets for breakfast.
Recommend a book:
🐣 where characters eat breakfast in the story
🐣 that you consider to be (syrupy) sweet
🐣 with a title that starts with P or S
8. SWEET LEMONADE PEEPS
Another limited-time flavor we're hoping will return, Peeps released these summery lemonade-flavored marshmallows in 2013. Part of the proceeds for each package sold went to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.
Recommend a book:
🐣 with a mostly yellow cover
🐣 takes place in summer time
🐣 where a character is sick or hospitalized
I'm in! (private profile, happy to friend anyone who picks for me)B. I'm in a jellybean mood!
PIFM shelf- https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
It's all about the CHOCOLATE!Please use my to-read-asap shelf - thanks!
Note to self - update that shelf!!
UPDATED: I’m in please and it’s A all the way! Please use my PIFM shelf. Thank you for hosting, LaurLa!
Definitely C - I'm all about the peeps...and Brach's marshmallow Easter hunt eggs!
It’s A for me. Also, this is my first time 🙃
Welcome to all and especially to our first-timers!! Everyone has been added up to here.
If it is your first time, be sure to read all of the information in messages 1 and 2 - but if you have any questions please let me know. You can ask here or send me a private message.
Also - if you have shelf you prefer to have picks made from, be sure to add the name and link in your sign-up post. Otherwise picks will be made from your general To Read shelf.
Lots of chocolate lover so far!! Where are all the Jelly Bean or Peeps lovers??? :-)
LaurLa wrote: "Lots of chocolate lovers so far!! Where are all the Jelly Bean or Peeps lovers??? :-)"If you need more people for the other two groups, you can put me with the one that has fewer people. I don't mind at all.
I can help any way you want to organize it, LaurLa.
Sign-ups and Picking deadlines extended!!!When I set up the challenge, I was thinking April with 30 days... not March with 31 days for our actual sign-up and picking period! So I've moved both the sign-up period and picking deadline by a day:
Sign ups will remain open until March 25th (9 pm US EDT)
You’ll have until March 30th (9 pm US EDT) to make your recommendations.
Peeps are the best! I'm into this... or should I say back into this... My Shelf is this!https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Peeps! I haven’t done this challenge for some time! Looking forward to rejoining. Please use https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
A) Anything chocolate: eggs, bunnies, solid, filled - just give me chocolate!https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
C) PEEPS! I love romance and PEEPS I'm in if it's not too late :) https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
I’m in!please look at the books on my want to read list to inspire you when picking for me!!!
C) I love marshmallows so much!! Anything marshmallow and i love it😍😍
I'm in for B.I'll update my list in a bit, but the link will be this: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Hi! I’m in! Chocolate all the way for me please. Feel free to use any shelf but my “read”. Thank you!!!
Just a few more hours until sign-ups close... I will post picking groups and rules as soon as I can after 9p eastern!!Welcome everyone!!!
Hello Beautiful people. I am all about the chocolate for sure. Group A please but if there are too many in that group I don’t mind B. I like Easter eggs as well! Here is my link:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Arijana wrote: "Hello Beautiful people. I am all about the chocolate for sure. Group A please but if there are too many in that group I don’t mind B. I like Easter eggs as well! Here is my link:
https://www.go..."
thank-you!
Sign-ups are closed! Be back soon with picking groups and rules!
Pairs and Rules are posted! Have fun!Picking deadline is March 30th (9 pm US EDT)
Re-picks will be assigned after that time
Picks for Susan AHey Susan,
Here are your picks. Hope you find something good to read!
1. PEEPS DELIGHTS
TBR: Radio Silence (variety of genres)
New: Back Piece (black cover)
2. COTTON CANDY PEEPS
TBR: Synnr's Saint (alliterative title)
New: Showing Him the Ropes (blue & pink cover)
3. SOUR WATERMELON PEEPS
TBR: Lord of Chance (green cover)
New: The Tutor (character imitates another character- Jane Eyre)
4. BUBBLE GUM PEEPS
TBR: Affair (round item on cover- veil)
New: Bitter Spirits (B titled story)
5. PARTY CAKE PEEPS
TBR: Teddy Spenser Isn't Looking for Love: An LGBTQ Romcom (colorful cover)
New: His Road Home (festive- Thanksgiving)
6. RED VELVET PEEPS
TBR: Happy Trail (holiday)
New: The Lotus Palace (red cover)
7. PANCAKES AND SYRUP PEEPS
TBR: Sleepless Over You (S titled story)
New: Tender with a Twist (sweet story)
8. SWEET LEMONADE PEEPS
TBR: Loud Mouth (yellow cover)
New: The Bride Test (yellow cover)
For Gabriella1. Peeps Delights
TBR: 3+ tags The Shining
New: black These Violent Delights
2.. Cotton Candy Peeps
TBR: alliterative Sense and Sensibility
New: new author The Gilded Wolves
3. Sour Watermelon Peeps
TBR: water Where the Crawdads Sing
TBR: green Heir of Fire
4. Bubble Gum Peeps
TBR: B author Crooked Kingdom
New: lots they shouldn't do Kingdom of the Wicked
5. Party Cake Peeps
TBR: colorful Caçadas de Pedrinho
New: colorful The Lost Apothecary
6. Red Velvet Peeps
TBR: Red cover Ruin and Rising
new: red cover Ruby Red
7. Pancakes and Syrup Peeps
TBR: starts with S Six of Crows
New: starts with S Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
8. Sweet Lemonade Peeps
TBR: yellow King of Scars
new: yellow Late to the Party
Carina! I’ll be working on yours tomorrow and hope to have them done by the end of my day!
Picking for 〰️Beth〰️1. Peep Delights
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new
2. Cotton Candy
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3. Sour Watermelon
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4. Bubble Gum
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5. Party Cake
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6. Red Velvet
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7. Pancake and Syrup
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new
8. Sweet Lemonade
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new
edited hopefully i did it right this time :|
Hi Jess! I think I have your picks all figured out, but it is too late to type them up, so look for them tomorrow. 😊
Sonja, hi I had fun browsing through your bookshelves and looking for books to suggest to you. So let's get started:
1. Peeps Delight:
New -
( where someone eats chocolate or receives chocolate as a gift)TBR -
(with a mostly brown, white or black cover)2. COTTON CANDY PEEPS
New -
(that is new author to your pickee)TBR -
(with a mostly pink or blue cover)3. SOUR WATERMELON PEEPS
New -
(with water on the cover)TBR -
(with a mostly green cover)4. BUBBLE GUM PEEPS
New -
(that starts with the letter B)TBR -
( where someone does something they shouldn't)5. PARTY CAKE PEEPS
New -
(where a festive event or celebration takes place)TBR
(with a colorful cover (at least 3 colors))6. RED VELVET PEEPS
New -
(tagged Christmas, holiday or (duh) Easter)TBR -
(with a mostly red cover)7. PANCAKES AND SYRUP PEEPS
New
(with a title that starts with P or S)TBR -
(with a title that starts with P or S)8. SWEET LEMONADE PEEPS
New
(with a mostly yellow cover)TBR -
(takes place in summer time)I hope you find something good to read!
Enjoy your reading, and have a great weekend.
Fyre.Katz wrote: "Picking for 〰️Beth〰️These are great but aren’t you supposed to suggest two books for each? One from my TBR and one new to me that you select? I haven’t done this challenge in over a year but I thought there were 16 books you select.....🤷🏻♀️
Susan A wrote: "For Gabriella1. Peeps Delights
TBR: 3+ tags The Shining
New: black These Violent Delights
2..."
Thank you for the picks, Susan! I love them! Can't wait to get started!
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What is the Pick-It-For-Me Challenge?
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.
The idea of the PIFM challenge is that you will get new-to-you books and authors selected for you as well as a push to read some books that have been lingering on your shelves. You may not be interested in the new books recommended, which is why you also get a minimum of four books from your shelf.
You only have to read ONE book to complete this challenge!
After signups are closed, your names and any extra info will go into the super secret PIFM randomizer and it will select someone for you to recommend books to and someone to give you recommendations. This list will be posted along with any specific picking rules for the month.
In order to participate you need to either HAVE YOUR PROFILE SET TO PUBLIC (preferable), or friend the person giving you recommendations.
PLEASE NOTE: if you choose to keep your profile private, it is your responsibility to send a friend request to the person picking for you as soon as possible after the matchups are posted. Whether your profile is private or not, it is also very important that your profile be set to receive Private Messages (PMs) in case anyone needs to reach out to you (mods, organizer etc.)
Everything gets done in this thread so be sure to come back often!!!
Repicks:
You can ask for repicks if:
✱ The books picked for you are not yet released.
✱ If you have already read the chosen book(s) and they are on your ‘read’ shelf.
✱ If you did not receive four picks from your ‘to-read’ shelf, with at least one from your preferred shelf.
You may NOT ask for repicks because:
✱ A book is not available at your library.
✱ A genre or author you don’t enjoy.
INFORMATION NEEDED TO SIGN UP
Please sign up in this thread with the answer to the following question:
Easter is in April this year which brings to mind the different candies and treats people enjoy during this time of year.
✱✱ What's your favorite Easter treat? ✱✱
A) Anything chocolate: eggs, bunnies, solid, filled - just give me chocolate!
B) I'm a traditionalist: decorated Easter eggs and jelly beans!
C) Those Peeps! Who can resist those fluffy marshmellow-y puffs for cuteness?
✱✱ If you have a preferred shelf, please list it along with your pick! ✱✱
IMPORTANT DATES
Sign ups will remain open until March 25th (9 pm US EDT)
For your convenience a Time Zone Converter.
You’ll have until March 30th (9 pm US EDT) to make your recommendations.
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 note that late sign ups will be included at the host's discretion and no one will be included after re-picks are assigned!✱