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What is the Pick-It-For-Me Challenge?

**Please notice that the deadline for picks has been moved to 10am February 2nd!**


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.

This is my own personal tip:

8. Please remember this is a romance readers challenge, so unless you KNOW your pickee would prefer something else (something off their preferred shelf, for example) most, if not all, of your picks should be romance. There are many different sub genres and related types of books - Contemporary, Historical, Paranormal, Romantic Suspense, Erotica, Urban Fantasy even. Take a look at your pickee's read shelf and see if they read non-romance genres before making your suggestions.


INFORMATION NEEDED TO SIGN UP
Please sign up in this thread with the answer to the following question:


**Who is waiting at the end of your rainbow?**

Roarke In Death series
Sawyer Thompson Head Over Heels
Lord Ian Mackenzie The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Bones Night Huntress series
One of the McKay Cousins Rough Riders series ~or~
Ty and Zane Cut & Run series

***If you have a preferred shelf, please list it along with your pick!***


IMPORTANT DATES
Sign ups will remain open until February 25th (2 pm PDT).

You’ll have until February 2nd (10 am PDT) to make your recommendations.

You then have till the end of the month to read your pick and give some feedback.

If you’re new please read the challenge specific 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!***

2013 March PIFM Challenge - Participants


Updated 2.25.13 through message # 189.

Roarke
Lacy
Skandia
Shell
Megan L
Suzanne
Leslie
Pam
ShoSho ** The sick chick**
Kristi (Passion for the Page)
Elizabeth
Kami
Pollyanna
Diane ~Firefly~
Photojim
Juliet - pick it for me shelf
Ruby - pick for me shelf
Nancy
Sandy
Daffodil
Vi
Yz the Whyz
Roxy
Regina
Joyce
Amy
Valerie
Claudia
Penney
Jojo

Sawyer Thompson
Bre
Zara - christian shelf
Inge
Arena
Dawn (Kat N Hat)
Ashley
Nadine
Brittany
Milly

Lord Ian Mackenzie
Karen
Ruth Ann
Makenzie - PIFM shelf
Irina
Emily
Carla
Gigi

Bones
Carrie
Elke - on deck shelf
Christina
Ty
Laura
Katie
Vilda
Sallie (Shuga)
Amy J.
Jensine
Melissa**
Nichole - up next shelf
LethalLovely~I Think I Might've Inhaled You

McKay Cousins
Brett
Angela
MountainKat - to read asap shelf
Sassafrass - read this next shelf

Ty and Zane
Breann
~KarenH~ can't wait to read shelf
Katie
Brandilyn - to read shelf
Fran - a pifm shelf
Ab2y - tbr
Erin
Valerie ~Varuca~ - To Pick From shelf
Jane (PS)

2013 March PIFM Challenge - Picking Rules


In a lot of places, March is a rainy month. After a long winter, that can be downright depressing! But what will brighten up anyone's world is a rainbow!

This month our PIFM challenge is going to revolve around the colors of the rainbow - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet! For each color you will be picking a book or author that starts with the same letter as the color, has a cover that is primarily that color or one that fits a theme suggested by the color. Please make sure at least half your picks come from your pickee's to-read or other unread shelf!

RED - Select a book with a red cover or one whose title or author begins with R. Or suggest a steamy book.

ORANGE - Select a book with a orange cover or one whose title or author begins with O. Or recommend a book set primarily in autumn.

YELLOW - Select a book with a yellow cover or one whose title or author begins with Y. Or pick a book set during summertime.

GREEN - Select a book with a green cover or one whose title or author begins with G. Or suggest a book with an outdoor theme.

BLUE - Select a book with a blue cover or one whose title or author begins with B. Or pick a book that has something to do with water.

INDIGO - Select a book with an indigo cover or one whose title or author begins with I. Or recommend a dark or suspenseful book.

VIOLET - Select a book with a violet cover or one whose title or author begins with V. Snow in moonlight is a beautiful shade of violet, so you could also pick a book set during the winter.

RAINBOW - Select a book with at least three colors of the rainbow on the cover or one whose title or author begins with any letter in RAINBOW. Or pick a LGBT book.

**Please remember the picking tips!!**

2013 March PIFM Challenge - Pairings


Please pick from the person below you in your group. The last person on the list will pick for first person on the list. For example, Diane ~Firefly~ picks for Juliet.

Picks are due by 2 pm PDT on Saturday, March 2nd. Repicks will be assigned at that time.

Updated 4.2.13, through message #779

� = Picks Made
� = Challenge Completed

Roarke:
★✓ Juliet - pick it for me
★✓ Yz the Whyz
★✓ Nancy
★✓ Sandy
� Pollyanna
� Jojo
★✓ Pam
★✓ Elizabeth
★✓ Lacy
★✓ Penney
★✓ Vi
★✓ Roxy
★✓ Joyce
★✓ Regina
� Claudia
★✓ Kami
★✓ Ruby - pick it for me shelf
★✓ Megan L
� Photojim
★✓ ShoSho ** The sick chick**
★✓ Daffodil
★✓ Shell(Private)
★✓ Skandia
★✓ Leslie
� Amy
Valerie
★✓ Kristi (Passion for the Page)
� Suzanne
★✓ Diane ~Firefly~


Sawyer:
� Brittany
★✓ Ashley
★✓ Dawn (Kat N Hat)
★✓ Inge
★✓ Bre
� Milly
★✓ Nadine
★✓ Arena
� Zara - this shelf


Lord Ian:
� Gigi *Rrrc-pick4me*
★✓ Ruth Ann
★✓ Karen
★✓ Carla
★✓ Dee
★✓ Emily
★✓ Irina
� Makenzie - PIFM


Bones:
★✓ Carrie
★✓ Nichole *up next shelf*
★✓ LethalLovely~I Think I Might've Inhaled You
★✓ Melissa**
� Amy J.
★✓ Jensine
★✓ Ty
� Sallie(Shuga)
★✓ Katie
★✓ Vilda
★✓ Elke(Private) *on deck shelf*
� Laura
★✓ Christina


McKays and Ty & Zane:
★✓ MountainKat - to read asap
� Ab2y *tbr*
★✓ Angela
★✓ Erin
★✓ Jane (PS)
★✓ Brett
★✓ Valerie ~Varuca~(Private) - To Pick From
★✓ Sassafrass *read this next*
★✓ Brandilyn - to read
★✓ ~KarenH~ - can't wait to read
★✓ Katie *to read shelf and to buy shelf*
★✓ Breann
★✓ Fran - a pifm shelf


Latecomers
★✓ Ezinwanyi~Mord'Sith
★✓ Magen

Repicks
100% of the people made their picks! I still have a little bit of business though...

★✓ Penney volunteered to make picks for her kindred spirit Debra!
★✓ Christina volunteered to make new picks for Kami.
★✓ And I've asked Ty to spice things up a bit for Nadine.

2013 March PIFM Challenge

All the Pretty Books We Read!

2013 March PIFM Challenge

Stats

I have to include that we had 100% of the participants make picks this month!!

75 total participants
59 participants reported completing the challenge
79% completion rate!

Overall, we had 152 books read for this challenge - WOW!!

The Roarke group had a 76% completion rate with 22 of the 29 reporting that they read one of their picks.

The Sawyer group had a 67% completion rate, 6 of the 9 reported reading a pick.

The Lord Ian group finished with a completion rate of 75%, 6 of the 8 reported reading at least one of their picks.

The Bones group came in at a 77% completion rate, 10 of 13 finished this challenge.

The McKay/Ty and Zane group finished up at 92% with 12 of 13 reporting back that they read a pick. I guess we really do like our smut! =P

Wow. That's a hard choice MK!! I'm going to have to say Ty & Zane.

Lord Ian Mackenzie :D
Im in !

all of thee above...I can't pick...can you just put me in which ever one you need to fill=out MK?

I'm in and Roarke is at the end of my rainbow!

I choose Roarke.

Breann wrote: "Wow. That's a hard choice MK!! I'm going to have to say Ty & Zane."

You notice I haven't decided yet myself... =P

Dee wrote: "all of thee above...I can't pick...can you just put me in which ever one you need to fill=out MK?"

Can do Dee!

because my option would be a six way with all of them ;)

This is a tough one...I feel almost like I'm being disloyal to Roarke, but I think for right now I have to go with Ty & Zane!

Please use my cant-wait-to-read shelf. Thanks!

Yeah... I kinda saw that! So you KNOW what you're doing to us by making us choose! I can't choose just one book boyfriend, I want them all!

I guess it helps that I have only read 3 out of the 6 choices!

Bones!!!
(I haven't read any of the others)

I like your option Dee....

Oh, I know Breann! I'm still going back and forth - between all of them!

i think my option should be the last choice ;)

the only one I haven't read is the Jill shalvis one, but i've liked all her other heros so far

I am in....Bones most definitely!! ;)

Can who ever chooses for me also use my "on deck" shelf!

thanks!!

At least with Ty & Zane I get to pick two ;)

Elke wrote: "I am in....Bones most definitely!! ;)

Can who ever chooses for me also use my "on deck" shelf!

thanks!!"

Oh thanks Elke! I forgot to ask for people to list their preferred shelves if they have one - I should go add that now!

Dee wrote: "i think my option should be the last choice ;)

the only one I haven't read is the Jill shalvis one, but i've liked all her other heros so far"

The only problem with that, Dee, is everyone would pick that option so it wouldn't break the group up at all! :)

not neccessarily...there are people who haven't read all the books; people who do have their favorites, and then there are the hero whores like me...I just can't decide

Dee wrote: "not neccessarily...there are people who haven't read all the books; people who do have their favorites, and then there are the hero whores like me...I just can't decide"

"Hero whores"?!?!?!!
I wish GR had a "like" button cause I love your statement Dee!! lol!!

MountainKat wrote: "Elke wrote: "I am in....Bones most definitely!! ;)

Can who ever chooses for me also use my "on deck" shelf!

thanks!!"

Oh thanks Elke! I forgot to ask for people to list their preferred shelves ..."

You're Welcome MK!!

Dee wrote: "not neccessarily...there are people who haven't read all the books; people who do have their favorites, and then there are the hero whores like me...I just can't decide"

Well, I'd be there with you - I love them all!

I'm in.

Ty and Zane!

ETA: In addition to my regular 'to-read' shelf, please feel free to also choose from my 'to-buy' shelf.

~KarenH~ wrote: "Dee wrote: "not neccessarily...there are people who haven't read all the books; people who do have their favorites, and then there are the hero whores like me...I just can't decide"

Well, I'd be t..."

Me too! Of course, since I made the list, they are all favorites of mine... =)

I guess I need to read the other 3. Sounds like Ty and Zane are very popular.

Out of the choices there, Roarke, though he would not be my all-time fav book boyfriend. :)

THERE'S NO WAY TO CHOOSE! Not fair MK. I'd like to make a hot hero smorgasboard. Can that be an option? LOL

I am in. Roarke is my all time favorite book husband!

In .. Definitely Ty & Zane at the end of my Rainbow :)


Please use this shelf

I'm in and it's Roarke all the way!

Is it bad that the only one besides Ty & Zane I have even HEARD of would be the McKay cousins...

Brandilyn wrote: "Is it bad that the only one besides Ty & Zane I have even HEARD of would be the McKay cousins..."

LOL! Not bad, but funny to me!

I'm going to go with Bones since this is the series that I am currently reading (and he is awesome). The only other one that I have read anything from is Roarke (In Death Series). Apparently, I have a few more titles to add to my TBR.

I only know the Mckays on this list and Ty & Zane from all the great buzz.

I will go with Ty & Zane, because I am very into m/m right now and would love to get to know them better! Cut and Run has been sitting on my kindle forever!

Please choose from my a-pifm-shelf

oh jeez. I will have to say Bones... all the way...

I was sad I wasn't going to be able to play this month but now I don't have to make a choice of those in the hot bunch....I can just keep em all, LOL!! I haven't read Ty & Zane yet but I have them on tap for next month.

Enjoy March PIFM and Make Good Choices!!�

I'm in , Ty and Zane for sure :)

Ignore all my shelves just pick from my tbr .

While I love Ian Mackenzie, I have to go with Roarke. Dreamy Irishman - yum!

Dee wrote: "all of thee above...I can't pick...can you just put me in which ever one you need to fill=out MK?"

you can do the same for me, MK.

just you my "read-this-next" shelf.

Thanks!

Roarke. Please!

and can I just say I am having a major identity disconnect here what with all the mentions of Ty. (I feel so LOVED! oh wait...)

Ty wrote: "and can I just say I am having a major identity disconnect here what with all the mentions of Ty. (I feel so LOVED! oh wait...)"

LOL, Ty!

Ty, you made me giggle!!

Ty wrote: "and can I just say I am having a major identity disconnect here what with all the mentions of Ty. (I feel so LOVED! oh wait...)"

You're too funny :D