Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Sign ups for cycle #2 are open from now until May 7th. When signing up, please indicate the number of books that you would like to read during the cycle.

I have posted the changes to the rules in the Rules of the Game thread.

Theme for Cycle #2 (at least one book picked for each member of your team has to meet this theme):

Since it is SPRINGTIME please pick a book where the letters of the author's initials can be found in the word SPRINGTIME.

Thanks Bea and Amy for the theme.

1 Book Team
Members pick two books (one theme, one not) for each other--for Donna pick one theme and two others

D.G.
Lyn M
Carrie
Donna (2 books actually for her)

2 Book Team
Members pick three books for each other, one theme and two others

Dee
Amy
Lauren
Karen of the bookworm

3 Book Team
Members pick 4 books for each other, (one theme and three others)

Bea
Tien
Susan
Fairlee

i'm in for 2 books please

please pick from to-read-2013

I'm in for 1 book, please.

I think I m in for 2 books this time.

Changed my mind...sign me up for 3! I am excited about my new shelf!!!

Please pick from my POTS shelf.

I'll go for 2 again, but if you need to bump me up to 3 (or even 4) to balance out a group, feel free to do so. Please select from my to-read shelf.

I managed to finish my third book just yesterday - a day late but I did finish it so I think I'm in for another 3 books from my own-to-read shelf

Don't forget to provide link of your nominated shelves

Awesome theme, Bea & Amy, love it! :)

I am tentatively in for 1 book, but I will wait to see where I am needed to round out teams.

AND - to echo Tien, Don't forget to list the link for the shelf that you want the books chosen off of.

My shelf is to-read-mine

I'm in for two books again.
Please pick from my to-read shelf.

I figured I would mention the shelf in my group's thread.

I'm in for 3 books again. The person choosing for me should choose from my POTS choices shelf.

I'm going to be too busy to sign up for this cycle and my reading is going to be minimal, but I'll sign up for the cycle #3 when it comes up!

Susan wrote: "I'm in for 3 books again. The person choosing for me should choose from my POTS choices shelf."

Oh, Susan, I liked the idea of a special shelf for POTS!

So, eveyone, I have created my own POTS shelf and edited my signup to allow picking from that shelf.
I picked books from other challenges and my LOST list that I want to read and ended up with 21 for y'all to chose from. I am so excited!

EDIT: Lyn, I increased my number of books too!

Sound like fun, everyone. I like the idea of a POTS shelf, too.

Please use my pick shelf and bump me up to 3

Remember all, there is a theme this cycle. My only thought is that if you are making up special lists, you need to make sure that there are books on the list that fit the theme. We will probably have teams of 4, and the original thought is that each of your team members has to nominate at least one book that fits the theme. That would mean that there needs to be at least three books that fit the theme on the list.

The other option is to have just one person in the group pick a theme book for you, in which case you would only need one book to fit the theme on your list. But I was afraid that would get to complicated?

Lyn M wrote: "Remember all, there is a theme this cycle. My only thought is that if you are making up special lists, you need to make sure that there are books on the list that fit the theme. We will probably ..."

Headed back to my list to check. I know there is at least one...but, now I see they need to pick different books...(I had thought they each could pick the one plus 5 others, since I am reading 3 now).

Whew! I have 5 on my list....

No worries. My shelf has all my LOST and Mt. TBR books in it, so 112 books. Author's initials from the 9 specified letters shouldn't be hard to find.

And -- to be clear about the rules -- each chooser needs to include one from the theme, but readers are not limited as to whether the book(s) they read include any of those theme-related books. Right?

I'm in for two books

This shelf please http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Susan wrote: "No worries. My shelf has all my LOST and Mt. TBR books in it, so 112 books. Author's initials from the 9 specified letters shouldn't be hard to find.

And -- to be clear about the rules -- each cho..."

Exactly right, Susan.

Bea wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "Remember all, there is a theme this cycle. My only thought is that if you are making up special lists, you need to make sure that there are books on the list that fit the theme. We ..."

I see how you thought that, Bea. Since everyone will be picking for everyone else, and there will be teams of 4 this time, so if you want to read 3, the other three people would each pick 1 theme and 3 others for you. That would give you a total of 12 books to choose from. Does that make sense?

I mainly changed it because I didn't want the lists to get too unwieldy for those of your reading a large number of books.

For those of us picking 1 book, we would still get 6 choices.

Lyn M wrote: "Since everyone will be picking for everyone else, and there will be teams of 4 this time, so if you want to read 3, the other three people would each pick 1 theme and 3 others for you. That would give you a total of 12 books to choose from. Does that make sense?"

Nope. Now I am more confused. In the rules, it says "The number of books you will pick for your team member will be equal to the number specified to read + X, with X being the number of books you've nominated to read. For example, if you choose to read 1 book, you would get 2 referrals, 2 books - 4 referrals, etc."

That makes me think that each team member will pick 6 books for me (3 [# chosen to read]+3). Since I am one of the four on the team, and I am not picking for myself, wouldn't I have 3 team members picking 6 books each for me or 18 total? And, must they all be different books? I thought the books would range from 6 distinct books (every one chose the same 6 books) to 18 distinct books (everyone chose different 6 books) and anything in between. NO? Good thing this does not start next week. I need time to figure out the new multiples!

Ahh, I see where the confusion is. I put the changes for Cycle #2 in bold at the top instead of incorporating them in the rules. My bad. Sorry. I will go fix that. Any way, the new rule is:

-Each person on the team will pick for ALL of their other team members.
-The number of books you pick for each member is equal to the number they have elected to read +1.

And they do have to be distinct book (I hadn't made that clear, so will update the rules with that, too), so if someone has already picked a book from your list, it cannot be picked again for his cycle. So you would have 12 distinct books chosen, of which you need to read three.

Lyn M wrote: "Each person on the team will pick for ALL of their other team members.

OK...I'm getting there, Lyn. 4 books picked by my three team members = 12 to choose from. "By George, I think she's got it!" Some days my brain just goes into "DUH" mode. LOL

Bea wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "Each person on the team will pick for ALL of their other team members.

OK...I'm getting there, Lyn. 4 books picked by my three team members = 12 to choose from. "By George, I think ..."

My fault, Bea. I should have redone the rules better. Sorry it was so confusing. It was one of those things that seemed right at the time, you know, but then when I went back and looked at it, I was asking myself why I would EVER leave the original rules there. Talk about DUH moments. :P

But you do have it now!

Lyn M wrote: "But you do have it now!"

So...now I wait until my team is determined...and then I wait for the members to pick the books for me...and then I wait until the day to start reading....Wow! Running for my current books to read so I don't focus on WAITING.

You know what they say, Waiting is the hardest part, right?

At least it is a shorter wait than last time

I'm in for 1 this time, and can you pick from soonish-or-up-next shelf.

Wow! Sign ups are almost closing already!! (If we go by the Sydney time, then we have less than 12 hrs to go.)

D.G. wrote: "Wow! Sign ups are almost closing already!! (If we go by the Sydney time, then we have less than 12 hrs to go.)"

lol - less than 2 hours to 7th (it's 10:08pm now)

Not sure exactly what time Lyn's closing the sign up, though?

Here's what in the rules about the time zone:

TIME ZONE NOTE: Since technically this group is "located" in Australia, for purposes of reading, the 15th shall be determined 8:00 am on the 15th in Sydney, Australia.

I figured it also applied to the sign ups. :)

well that means now! because it is 8:01am Sydney time according to http://24timezones.com/au_map/austral...

you guys crack me up! ;p

you ain't seen nothin'...compared to waiting for the PIFM in the RRRC...we stalk that thread for days!

We want teams!

is it time yet - whining!

Teams, teams, teams!

Where are the teams? It is 4:11p on 5/7/13 right now!

It's already 5/8 in Australia.

Sorry All, I was sick yesterday and TOTALLY spaced this out. I am working on putting up the teams right now.


MY BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!

*****Drum roll, please******

The teams are up in the second post. Again....I apologize everyone. I have been sick for a few days and although feeling better today, totally forgot about this. Next time I am going to book myself an appointment with a reminder.

Just a note - I put one person who signed up for 2 books in the one book team to even things out. So for those of us on the one books team...Don't forget to pick three books for Donna instead of just two.

FYI

I moved all of the discussion threads from Cycle #1 to the Archive folder for POTS. IF you still want to see them, they are here