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Official Game Period: One week per book with a maximum of 10 weeks

Object of the Game: To read the required number of books (see rules below) within the correlating number of weeks.

Go to the page of your favorite book of all time.

Click on 'See top shelves...' and you will see numerous shelves that your book has been placed on.

1. Count down to the N-th (sorry, can't do superscript) shelf and read a book from this shelf.

**N = your age (which you do not have to disclose ;) )

2. Your next book will be from (2N)-th shelf.

3. The next book will be from (3N)-th shelf, and so on...

Up to shelf X.

**X will be 200 if you're in your 20s or 300 if you're in your 30s, etc.

For example, I'm 32, so for my first book I'd be reading from shelf #32. Then my second book from shelf #64 and so on until I reached shelf #300 which means that I'd have to read 9 books to complete this challenge.

If you are 29, you will only have to read 6 but if you're 55, you'd have to read 9 books too.

Note: Be careful to choose a book which has at least your required number of shelves (one page has approximately 100 shelves).

I would suggest to highlight the shelves, copy & paste into excel (DO NOT SORT) and count them down there, it will make it easier for you. Let me know if you need any help, I'll be happy to assist.

IF, for any reason, you can't find / get a book from a shelf you're supposed to read:
1. If your last birthday was less than 6 months ago, go to the shelf above (ie. from above example, instead of shelf #62, I'd go to #61) & pick a book from there.
2. If your last birthday was more than 6 months ago, go to the shelf below (ie. from above example, instead of shelf #62, I'd go to #63)

Reporting:

[shelf N]: Book A
[shelf 2N]: Book B
...
[shelf 9N]: Book I

Books read: 0/Y
Game Period: Y weeks (up to MM/DD/YY)

Amy - 8/10
Bea - 3/9
Coralie - Completed
Ebony
Lyn M
Megan L - 4/10
Sam - 5/8
Susan - 6/9
Tien - Completed

Updated 12/20

Of course, the great thing about creating games is that you get to "plan" First! :)

I chose The Scarlet Pimpernel as my fave.

historical-romance: Moonlight & Mechanicals - Read 11/14
to-read-classics: The Daisy Chain -Read 12/20
audio-book: The Dirty Streets of Heaven - Read 11/20
espionage: Casino Royale - Read 11/15
historic-fiction: Caleb's Crossing - Read 11/29
classic-romance: Mansfield Park - Read 11/26
women: Miss Marjoribanks - Read 11/30
best: Sunshine - Read 12/14
modern-literature: The Book of Salt - Read 12/20

Books read: 9/9
Game Period: 9 weeks (up to 12/24/12)

Omigosh. I have no clue how to choose my "favorite book of all time"!

Susan wrote: "Omigosh. I have no clue how to choose my "favorite book of all time"!"

It was tough, Susan - just pick one of your faves ;)
Is there one book that you re-read again and again?

I have a question. I chose The Lions of al-Rassan as my favourite. While it has enough shelves and to spare for this, some of them are a bit obscure to the point where one of the shelves I came to only has three books on it.
Could we replace a really small shelf with another near it?

Oh I'm so in for this one...now i just have to decide on my favourite book (this could take a while...)

Ok, so my fav book of all time is Wuthering Heights. My age is 25, so i count down the top shelves by 25.

Shelf N: 2012 1984 by George Orwell
Shelf 2N: ebooks The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Shelf 3N: read-in-2010 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Shelf 4N: fiction-literature Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Shelf 5N: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shelf 6N: must-read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Shelf 7N: fantasy (lol at the 22 people who shelved this as fantasy!) Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Shelf 8N: read-2012 Divergent by Veronica Roth

Books read: 0/8
Game Period: 8 weeks, up to 17.12.2012

I think I got that right, now I get to look for books I want to read instead of doing my uni assignments ^^ These challenges make mondays so much more fun

Reporting:

My favorite book of all time is Hawaii

wish-list: Clockwork Angel
contemporary-literature: The Help
my-book-collection: The Last Song
zzz-na-hawaii: Micro
excellence: The Dovekeepers
biography: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
pause: A Game of Thrones
to-read-interesting: The Sugar Queen
2009-and-before: The Secret Life of Bees

Read 0/9
Game Period: 9 weeks until 12/24/2012

Coralie wrote: "Could we replace a really small shelf with another near it?"

I believe I captured this eventuality at the bottom of the rules ;)

For me, at least, the links aren't going to the shelves. They seem to have defaulted to the genres again. This is what seems to be working for me:
In your browser's address bar, paste in "http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/" followed by the name of the shelf you need.

So - My reporting thread is above, but I do want to clarify. If you are in your 50's you read as many books as it takes you to get to shelf 500? And what if your birthday is in the middle of the game? Do you just go by what your age is right now?

As for my favorite book of all time, I agree with Susan. It could be any number of books, but four came to mind right off the bat, so ......I am going to roll a die to choose one.

Ok for the shelf ebooks, am i supposed to actually read a book in ebook form, or can i just read a book that's on the ebook shelf in hard copy?

Ebony wrote: "^^ These challenges make mondays so much more fun!"

Hhhmmm... maybe that's what we should do as a group - have a Mini Mondays (challenge)

Arrgh, I think you've just triggered that reading challenge button in my brain!

I think I will have to keep this idea for another year but thank you, Ebony, for the inspiration ;)

I HATE the new "Read" and "Want to Read" indicators. I keep looking at the green "Want to Read" button and getting confused. It doesn't mean I've put it on my to-read shelf; it's a button to let me do that. I like the old indicators much better. Does anyone know where the right general GR place is for me to post that comment?

Lyn M wrote: "So - My reporting thread is above, but I do want to clarify. If you are in your 50's you read as many books as it takes you to get to shelf 500? or you just read 9 books. I wasn't sure what you ..."

The first one is right: If you are in your 50's you read as many books as it takes you to get to shelf 500.

@Susan: Why are they reverting to that again!? how annoying... I'll try to log something on the feedback thread later today... in the meantime, you could also scroll down the 'genre' page and click on popular books which will take you to the shelf page ;)

Also, here's the link to the GR Feedback group: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

I know that some people do NOT like these new buttons! I have to say they're pretty ugly!

Susan wrote: "I HATE the new "Read" and "Want to Read" indicators. I keep looking at the green "Want to Read" button and getting confused. It doesn't mean I've put it on my to-read shelf; it's a button to let me..."

There is a thread in the GR Feedback group where many people are posting comments just like that. The group is a public group and anyone can join. Here is the link to the http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...

Favourite book The Lions of al-Rassan

science fiction and fantasy The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
alt history Boneshaker
aficionados best fantasy list Mary Poppins
available via library ebook Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
kingdom A Game of Thrones
read 2012 (replacing lis524 discussion) Never Let Me Go
past times in good company The Autumn of the Patriarch
pt The Woman in White

Books read 8/8
Game Period: 8 weeks, up to 17.12.2012

I am finding this hard to do - copy the shelves into excel spreadsheet.

My attempt ended up with every other line being the number of people who shelved that particular way. Since I am in my 60's....that is a lot of correction to do. I tried to just highlight the shelf name but my system would not do that!

Bea wrote: "I am finding this hard to do - copy the shelves into excel spreadsheet.

My attempt ended up with every other line being the number of people who shelved that particular way. Since I am in my 60's...."

Bea, I'm happy to help you if you want to message me your fave book & age. Then, I'll send you back your shelves ;)

Favorite Book: The Pillars of the Earth

52) favorite-books: The Story of Beautiful Girl
104) faves: Ashes
156) read-2009: Still Alice
208) read-2012: A Wanted Man
260) british-authors: Sister
312) novela-historica: The House At Riverton
364) historical-fantasy: The Night Circus
416) recommended-by-friends: Full Dark, No Stars
468) read-in-english: A Monster Calls
520) 2012-list: This Is Where I Leave You

Books read: 10/10 (completed on 12/27/2012)
Game Period: 10 weeks (up to 12/31/2012)

I'm assuming we can't overlap books with the birthday games already in progress. Also, can we read these in any order?

Amy wrote: "I'm assuming we can't overlap books with the birthday games already in progress. Also, can we read these in any order?"

yes and yes, Amy.

Tien, I think I have figured it out.

However, I do have a question about shelves. I landed on a shelf labelled "World Culture" which took me to "New Releases Tagged Cultural".

Usually there is a "more books tagged..." that can be clicked on to get a full list to review. This particular one did not have that. Am I stuck with just the 8 books listed? Can I use one of the lists noted on the same page or the "most read this week" books? I was hoping to do this with books I own, but this shelf is too narrow if I have to use the New Releases.

Actually, I decided to go with the Most Read This Week list of cultureal books. OK?

Bea wrote: "Tien, I think I have figured it out.

However, I do have a question about shelves. I landed on a shelf labelled "World Culture" which took me to "New Releases Tagged Cultural".

Usually there is a..."

With the current issue (like Susan mentioned) when you click on the shelf-link, it actually takes you to the genre page which lists New Releases, Lists, Popular books, etc... Usually, when you click on the shelf like, you are actually taken to the Popular Books... so that's where you can choose your books OR....

here's your link to World Culture :)

Tien wrote: "Here's your link..."

Thanks for the link. The book I had selected from the Most Read This Week list was on the link you sent so I can stay with my selection. :)

Just one more to decide...

Here's my list:

I scanned my list of 5* books and finally chose People of the Book as my favorite.

Shelf N: Book Club Reads One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (own)
Shelf 2N: Audible - sound is not working on my computer and I am only 5 months from my birthday, so I backed up to General Pride and Prejudice
Shelf 3N: Modern Literature Love in the Time of Cholera (own)
Shelf 4N: Pulitzer A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (own)
Shelf 5N: Bibliophile The Historian (own)
Shelf 6N: To Review The Scorpio Races
Shelf 7N: World Culture Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (own)
Shelf 8N: To Read Already Purchased The Things They Carried (library books)
Shelf 9N: Serious Interpreter of Maladies

Books read: 3/9 during game period
Game Period: 9 weeks (up to 12/23/12)

Bea wrote: "I am finding this hard to do - copy the shelves into excel spreadsheet.

My attempt ended up with every other line being the number of people who shelved that particular way. Since I am in my 60's...."

Nope. Don't bother with the corrections.
(1) Insert a blank row above the first entry if there isn't one. That puts the first shelf on row 2.
(2) Double each number you need. So, to find the 66th shelf, I looked at row #132.

I don't know how all of you are doing this planning so quickly. I finally settled on The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin as my favorite book, so I have my shelf list. But each shelf has so many to choose from that I feel like I'm only just beginning to plan.

ebook: Delirium or Matched or The Iron King
psychology
favorite-books
2005
tbr-pile
tiptree-award
scifi-fantasy-speculative
nonbinary-gender
to-read-someday

Books read: 0/9
Game Period: 9 weeks (up to 12/24/12)

Favorite book: The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin

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� nonbinary-gender: A Voyage to Arcturus - finished 12/24
✔t´Ç-°ù±ð²¹»å-²õ´Ç³¾±ð»å²¹²â: Shadow in the North - finished 11/6


Books read: 9/9
Game Period: 9 weeks (up to 12/24/12)
Finished 12/24

Ok I am going to do this challenge.

Book: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

Shelf (N): ebooks - Dead Witch Walking - 11/1/12 - 3 Stars
Shelf (2N): guilty pleasures - Bared to You - 11/14/12 - 5 Stars
Shelf (3N): genre historical romance - Devil's Bride - 11/26/12 - 4 Stars
Shelf (4N): to find - Stolen: A Letter to My Captor - 12/19/12 - 5 Stars
Shelf (5N): alpha male - Beautiful Disaster
Shelf (6N): fiction historical - An Echo in the Bone
Shelf (7N): chubby heroine - Addicted
Shelf (8N): British historical romance - Gentle Rogue
Shelf (9N): bluestocking - Miss Winthorpe's Elopement
Shelf (10N): read in 2010 - Bed of Roses

Hi Megan, great to have you join us! Hope you'd have fun too :)

Okay finally managed to decide on my favourite book for this and have gone with Dracula by Bram Stoker (largely because I have re-read this more than any other),

So my shelves and books (to follow) are thus:

Shelf (N): 1001 - Titus Groan
Shelf (2N): owned-books - The Walking Dead, Book Five read 31/10/12
Shelf (3N): my-books - The Walking Dead, Book Four read 31/10/12
Shelf (4N): gothic-fiction - Gormenghast
Shelf (5N): default - Titus Alone
Shelf (6N): spooky - Island read 11/12/12
Shelf (7N): must-reads - The Light Fantastic read 08/12/12
Shelf (8N): stand-alone - The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear read 08/12/12

Books read: 5/8
Game Period: 8 weeks (to w/c 12/17/12)

Okay I've got a question the answer to which may be glaringly obvious but my brain is too focused on planning to figure it out...

The rules state One week per book with a maximum of 10 weeks but I'm assuming that doesn't mean one book per week, we can read more than that, we just have X weeks to complete the challenge, depending how many books we have to read (up to a max of 10 weeks). Is that right (I'm being a little dull I know)?

Sam wrote: "Okay I've got a question the answer to which may be glaringly obvious but my brain is too focused on planning to figure it out...

The rules state One week per book with a maximum of 10 weeks but I..."

You got it, Sam ;)
It's probably very late where you are? lol

Awesome :-)

Its not too late (only 11.13 according to my phone), guessing its early afternoon over your wsy?

Sam wrote: "Awesome :-)

Its not too late (only 11.13 according to my phone), guessing its early afternoon over your wsy?"

um, 11 is late for me ha haha
it's just past 10am - which reminds me I've got to get ready to go, oops! having too much fun online as always! Cheers...

Sam wrote: "Okay I've got a question the answer to which may be glaringly obvious but my brain is too focused on planning to figure it out...

The rules state One week per book with a maximum of 10 weeks ..."

Thanks for pointing this out, Sam. I had missed that rule. As a result, I have corrected my post.

Tien wrote: "Sam wrote: "Awesome :-)

Its not too late (only 11.13 according to my phone), guessing its early afternoon over your wsy?"

um, 11 is late for me ha haha
it's just past 10am - which reminds me I'v..."

Aha, in that case yes it was a little late ;-)

Hey guys,

Re: the shelves links issue, I've posted on the GR feedback this morning. Sorry, it's taken me a while, I just haven't had the time and then sometimes, I forgot *oops*

Here's the link if you want to view / have inpute: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Hopefully, they'll change it back for us!

I don't know if I will get 10 books because I am coming in late, but I will at least try to get to 5 (which is still lofty since I have not been reading as much as of late).

I chose The Handmaid's Tale as my favorite
shelves
N- Gone Girl (library)
N1 If I Stay (books i own)
N2 1Q84 (wish list)
N3 Shadow and Bone (read 2012)
N4 The Iron King (ebook)


Books read: 0/Y
Game Period: 5 weeks (up to 12/25/12)

This has turned out to be a terrific game, because it helped me discover books I would never have seen any other way, because so few people had read them -- hunting through tiny shelves was frustrating, but very fruitful. (See message 32.) AND several are books my library doesn't have. I found Ammonite in the used bookstore yesterday.

I'm happy to see you having fun exploring, Susan! The Hunt is definitely the most exciting part but then if the read is good, it's even better :D

Halfway there after reading The Light Fantastic and The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear over the weekend :-)

I'm down to my last book now. Only another 400 pages to go with three and a half days left to read them in.

Well done Coralie, I've still got three left for this one and they're all rather long so I'm focusing on the Timber challenge instead :-)

I have finished this one. I really can't see myself finishing the Timber challenge by the end of the year.

I've got 2 more books (well, 1.5 since I'm in the middle of one now) to go but like you, Coralie, I'm pretty much giving up on Timber, LOL - *sighs* all good intention but not moving much out at all!