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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.

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.

Whilst 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!!!

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!


IMPORTANT DATES
April 27th (4pm CDT) - Sign ups close, matches made and rules posted

May 1st (4pm CDT) - Deadline for Recommendations and repicks are assigned.

May 31 - Deadline for reading your pick and giving some feedback on it

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

**What are you giving your mother for Mother's Day...Candy, a Hug, Flowers, Something Else?**

List of those signed up
through post 90

Hug
Fran
~KarenH~
Erin
Lady Allison
MountainKat
Alyssa
renee
Cacophony
Vi
Lekshmy

Flowers
Skandia
Elke
Rishika
Laura
Megan L
Nicole
Tiffany
Kate
Mommaseymour
Carla
Macwolf01[Elise]

Candy
Suzanne
Nancy
Susan (susayq)

Something Else
Dee
Mandy
Lauren
D.G.~Shameless Hussy~
Naynay
Sue
Melissa
Christine
Leslie
Pat
Yz the Whyz
Kami
Rena
Brett
Pam
Irina
Cathy
Lacy
Sandy
Amy J.
Daffodil
Sallie(Shuga)
Ruth Ann
Gigi
Ana
Diane~Firefly~
Barbara
Jojo
Penney
Regina
Pollyanna
Nelly
Roxy
Laura
Eimeriina
Joyce
Nici
Iris
Lexa

May 2012 PIFM ~Pairings

This month you'll be picking for someone who thinks about gift giving the same way you do!

**Please pick for the person below you within each group. The last person on the list for your group will pick for the first one in your group.

**Picks should be posted by May 1st at 4pm Central time in the USA. Repicks will be assigned shortly after that.

REPICKS!!!!

�Dee is picking for Macwolf01 [Elise]

�D.G. ~Shameless Hussy~" picks for Dawn

� = made their picks
� = read at least one of their picks
through post #476

Hugs
☺✔~KarenH~
☺✔MountainKat
☺✔Cacophony
☺✔Fran
� � Lekshmy
☺✔Erin
☺✔renee
�Vi
☺✔Alyssa
�Lady Allison

Flowers
☺✔Elke
Nicole
☺✔Macwolf01[Elise]
☺✔Tiffanny
☺✔Skandia
☺✔Megan L
☺✔Kate
☺✔Carla
☺✔Rishika
☺✔Mommaseymour
☺✔Laura

Candy
☺✔Suzanne
☺✔Susan (susayq)
☺✔Nancy

Something Else

☺✔Mandy
☺✔Rena
�D.G.~Shameless Hussy~
☺✔Lauren
☺✔Sue
☺✔Melissa
☺✔Naynay
☺✔Pollyanna
☺✔Leslie
�Pat
☺✔Yz the Whyz
☺✔Kami
☺✔Lacy
☺✔Brett
☺✔Christine
☺✔Pam
☺✔Irina
☺✔Cathy
�Dee
☺✔Nelly
☺✔Sandy
☺✔Ana
☺✔Daffodil
☺✔Penney
�Sallie(Shuga)
☺✔Amy J.
☺✔Gigi
�Diane~Firefly~
☺✔Nici
☺✔Barbara
� �Ruth Ann
☺✔Jojo
� �Lexa
�Regina
�Roxy
☺✔Laura
☺✔Joyce
☺✔Iris
Eimeriina
☺✔Dawn

Picking Rules:

We're celebrating some of the holidays in May this month with our picks...Your picks can be something you've read or off of your pickees list :)

May is Loyalty Month - rec a book that is from a favorite author or series you love


May is Graduation Time - rec a YA book


International Space Day, May 4 - rec a book that is set in an alternate universe


Join Hands Day, May 4 - rec an author your pickee hasn't read before or a genre your pickee normally doesn't read


Tourist Appreciation Day, May 6 - rec a book that is set in a place you've visited or somewhere you'd like to visit


National Teacher Day, May 8 - rec a nonfiction book that you enjoyed or a classic


Armed Forces Day, May 18 - since being in the armed services can be scary, pick a book that is a thriller or scary, or pick a book that is a military or special ops series


Maritime Day, May 22 - pick a book that would be a great beach read


Buddy Reads: Buddy reads are not optional picks. You must pick one for each catergory, however, you are not required to do a buddy read if your schedule won't let you fit it in :)

Clean Up Your Room Day, May 10 - rec a book that is one of the oldest on your pickees TBR list that you'd like to read as well


Chocolate Chip day, May 15 - Pick a book with a yummy cover

through Post 476

Books Read:

Interesting Pieces of Information about our books and our Recs!

The most rec'd book: with 10

Total number of different books rec'd: 668

Total number of different authors rec'd: 459

Author with the most individual books rec'd: Lisa Kleypas 11 different books (15 times)

Most rec'd author: Maya Banks 17 times!

Of course, if we combine Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb, we recommended her 23 times using 14 different books!

Here's our final stats:

62 people participated this month

52 completed the challenge and of those, 19 peeople read more than one of their recs!

Would it surprise you to know that Lisa Kleypas was the most read author this month? LOL Probably not since she was the most rec'd. We read her 4 times this month :)

Thank you so much for letting me host this! I enjoyed it :D

me please...and something else...since she lives in another country ;)

I'll join Dee in the something else group.

My mom likes flowers. She will get a big bouquet of tulips :)

I am in...I will give her flowers!

I'm in too - something else.

I'd say something else but it's really nothing. I'm anti commercial Holidays.

I'm in...my Mother is no longer with me, but if I could it would be SOMETHING ELSE.

I'm in! I will be giving my Mom a hug and something else so I will go with...Hug

I'm in, and I'm definitely giving her "something else." I'm making my mother a tote bag. She has a funky fetish with outhouses and behinds, and I found some material called "fruit bottom women" that has all of these ladies in bathing suits that look like their big bottoms are fruit! I know it sounds odd, but I really think she'll like it. I just have to find some lining material and buy the handles.

I'm in and alas like Naynay said my Mother is no longer with me either - if she were here I would give her something else

I am in! I will be giving my mom flowers

I'm in for the "something else" group.

I'm not sure yet, maybe flowers or maybe something else, but a Hug is pretty much a given, so I'll go with that.

I'm in. I will definitely be giving my Mom a hug for Mother's Day. It's never been much of a gift holiday in my family.

I'm in and I'll go with Something Else - as I haven't decided yet. I leave the flowers to my brothers and she doesn't like candy. And a hug won't happen unfortunately until the end of May.

Sue wrote: "I'm in, and I'm definitely giving her "something else." I'm making my mother a tote bag. She has a funky fetish with outhouses and behinds, and I found some material called "fruit bottom women" tha..."

LOL, Susan! That sounds great. :)

My mom is no longer her so its gotta be something else for me - I'm in

For me, it's something else and i'm in.

I'm in & although I'd love to get her a trip to France, she'll have to go with a hug one more year! :)

I'm sorry lacking in mothers, seems I've lost them all - no mother, no grandmother, no mother-in-law. I do have an aunt who helped raise me and I relatively recently gained a stepmother and I would love to give them both hugs if they were here!

I'm in and I always get my mother a bunch of candy! Her favorites are Peanut M&M's!

I'm in and I will go with the "Something Else" crowd.

"Something else", haven't figured it out yet. =P

I'm in and my mother is getting something else. It has been in my purse since February hahaha

I will be giving my mother all of those things plus the 'something else', but she really loves candy, so I will go with candy for our purposes here!

I'm in and in the "something else" category.

I'm in, and I'll be giving my mom a hug as well as something else...cause her birthday is in May as well. XD So...I'm gonna stick with HUG.

Alyssa wrote: "I'm in, and I'll be giving my mom a hug as well as something else...cause her birthday is in May as well. XD So...I'm gonna stick with HUG."

Same goes for me. :) My mom's bday is in May as well. I'm signing up for Hug too.

I haven't decided what to get her yet... so I'll go with Something Else..

Sign me up please! And I think my mom would like a hug for mother's day this year.

Please sign me up. And I will be getting my mom "something else" this year

im in and will give my mom flowers :)

I am in and since I live over 3,000 miles away from my Mom she will get flowers for Mother's Day!

I'm in, something else. My mom is fun to shop for!

I'm in. Something else.

I'm in. And I'll go with something else.

Since my mom lives 2 states away, I'm sending her flowers :)

I'll be making a card and sending "something else" to my mom.

Put me in, Im sending something else...

I am in. my mother is no longer with me. but my gift would've been something else. my gift for my mom every year was a 50 pound bag of crap(manure). She used it in her rose garden. No in the family had the nerve to buy her manure except me. She was always grateful.

Ruth Ann wrote: "I am in. my mother is no longer with me. but my gift would've been something else. my gift for my mom every year was a 50 pound bag of crap(manure). She used it in her rose garden. No in the fa..."

I'm sorry to hear about that : (

I'm in. Flowers.

I'm in, flowers =)

I'm in! Something else