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January 2014 PIFM Challenge

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

Please note the dates/times for this month as they are different due to the holidays!!

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鈥檚 always new and always different.

After signups are closed, I'll put your names and any extra info I鈥檝e requested 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.

*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!*

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, Kat, Karen, Ty 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.

8. Please choose at least 4 new titles for your pickee. These should be brand new to them and not found on any of their shelves. Part of the fun of this challenge is discovering new books to read, adding new titles to the ever-expanding tbr shelf. The remaining 4 titles should come from your pickee's tbr or preferred shelves.

9. 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, M/M, 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:

**Where are we most likely to find you this New Year鈥檚 Eve?**

At Jack鈥檚 bar in Virgin River?
With the Brothers at the King鈥檚 Mansion in the Black Dagger Brotherhood Series?
Joining the Kelly family at their compound in the KGI Series?
Gaming with scoundrels at the Fallen Angel in the Rules of Scoundrels Series?
Role playing at Club Shadowlands with the Masters of the Shadowlands?
Enjoying some winter fun in Summit City with the gang from the Sno Ho Series?

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

IMPORTANT DATES
Sign ups will remain open until December 22nd (5 pm PST).

You鈥檒l have until December 28th (5 pm PST) 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鈥檙e new please read the PIFM Guidelines and 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!***

January 2014 PIFM Challenge - Participants

Updated through message #64

Jack's bar in Virgin River:
Zara - RRRC PIFM Challenge Shelf
Skandia
~Leslie~ - to read
Laurla - tbr-owned
Nancy H
Kaleigh

King's Mansion with the BDB:
Diane ~firefly~
Mary Ann
Nandar(Private)
Carrie - soonish or up next shelf
Ekle(Private) - on-deck-and-4chlges shelf
Ashley
Sallie(Shuga) - rrr-2013-meet-greet-shelf
Jaime
Kami
Grace
Brett
Joyce
Shelby - use this shelf
Christina
Kaie
Amy J.
Sandy
Logan
Daffodil
Dee

Kelly Family Compound:
Nadine - my books on deck to read shelf
Bre
Pam
Runell
Ty

Fallen Angel with Scoundrels:
Arena
Carla_Collette
Lauren - 2014 PIFM
Suzanne
Debra

Club Shadowlands:
Isa - TBR, Erotica or BDSM shelves
Gea
Becca
Elizabeth
Victoria - Pick It For Me
Penney - PIFM Challenge
Sassafrass - read this next shelf
Carrie - Jan. PIFM shelf
MountainKat - to-read-asap shelf

Summit City:
Fran - PIFM Shelf
~KarenH~ - can鈥檛 wait to read shelf
Breann - pick me shelf
Erin
Apilif
Angi -
Vilda -
beppy - to read soon

January 2014 PIFM Challenge

January 2014 PIFM Rules


New Year, New You?

New Year, Better You?

Or perhaps the New Year is simply the time to start your reading challenges over again!!

As we approach the New Year, we often make resolutions to better ourselves, save money, get organized or travel. Who are we kidding, most of us will still spend all our money and free time on BOOKS!! Keeping that in mind, let鈥檚 approach the first PIFM of 2014 with resolutions, errr鈥� rules, that involve reading!

Please make sure you pick at least four new picks and four picks from your pickee鈥檚 TBR or preferred shelf!

1. Lose Weight: Help your pickee lose some of what is weighing them down! Pick a longer book, preferably off their to-read shelf.

2. Get in Shape: Get your pickee in the mood by recommending a book involving sports or set outdoors. Or a book where a character thinks weight or fitness is an issue.

3. Save Money: Save them some money by recommending a freebie or a book that can be borrowed. Maybe one you can loan them! Or a book where money (or the lack thereof) is important.

4. Eat Better: Suggest a book where food plays an important part in the story or one that has food or a table on the cover. Or a book that has a character involved in any aspect of the food industry from the farm/ranch to the table.

5. Travel: Motivate them to see the world, pick a book set outside of the their home country. (Or outside of yours if they don't list theirs.)

6. Spend Time with Family and Friends: Suggest a book in a series or a book with family/friends in the story.

7. Enjoy Life More: Recommend to your pickee one of your highly rated recent reads, preferably new to them.

8. Get Organized: Help your pickee clean up their shelves, pick something that has been collecting dust on the TBR for a while.

Happy Reading!!

January 2014 PIFM Challenge - Pairings

Please pick for the person below you in your group. The last person on the list picks for the first, for example Debra picks for Nadine. I merged like groups to even out the numbers so please make an extra effort to check what type of book your pickee prefers!

Picks are due by December 28th at 5PM PST.

Please make sure you pick at least four new picks and four picks from your pickee鈥檚 TBR or preferred shelf!

Updated 2.1.14, through message #375.

鉁� = Picks Made
鈽� = Pick(s) Read

Jack's bar in Virgin River, Kelly Family Compound and Fallen Angel with Scoundrels:
鈽� 鉁� Nadine - my books on deck to read shelf
鈽� 鉁� Ty
鈽� 鉁� Laurla - tbr-owned
鈽� 鉁� Nancy H
鉁� Suzanne
鈽� 鉁� Arena
鈽� 鉁� Skandia
鈽� 鉁� ~Leslie~ - to read
鉁� Zara - RRRC PIFM Challenge Shelf
鉁� Runell
鈽� 鉁� Bre
鈽� 鉁� Kaleigh
鉁� Lauren - 2014 PIFM
鈽� 鉁� Pam
鈽� 鉁� Carla_Collette
Debra

King's Mansion with the BDB:
鈽� 鉁� Sallie(Shuga) - rrr-2013-meet-greet-shelf
鈽� 鉁� Mary Ann
鈽� 鉁� Dee - to read 2013 shelf
鈽� 鉁� Shelby - use this shelf
鈽� 鉁� Christina
鈽� 鉁� Grace
鉁� Carrie - soonish or up next shelf
鈽� 鉁� Kami
鈽� 鉁� Elke(Private) - on-deck-and-4chlges shelf
鉁� Sandy
鈽� 鉁� Jaime
鉁� Brett
鈽� 鉁� Joyce
鈽� 鉁� Ashley
鈽� 鉁� Amy J.
鈽� 鉁� Katie
鈽� 鉁� Diane ~firefly~
鈽� 鉁� Daffodil
鈽� 鉁� Nandar(Private)
鈽� 鉁� Logan

Club Shadowlands & Summit City:
鈽� 鉁� beppy - to read soon
鈽� 鉁� Elizabeth
鈽� 鉁� Carrie - Jan. PIFM shelf
鈽� 鉁� Vilda -
鈽� 鉁� Breann - pick me shelf
鉁� Apilif
鈽� 鉁� Fran - PIFM Shelf
鈽� 鉁� Gea
鈽� 鉁� ~KarenH~ - can鈥檛 wait to read shelf
鈽� 鉁� Penney - PIFM Challenge
鈽� 鉁� Erin
鈽� 鉁� Becca
鈽� 鉁� Victoria - Pick It For Me
鉁� Sassafrass - read this next shelf
鈽� 鉁� MountainKat - to-read-asap shelf
鈽� 鉁� Isa - TBR, Erotica or BDSM shelves
鈽� 鉁� Angi -

Latecomers:
鉁� Macwolf01 [Elise]
鉁� Larissa

Repicks:
鉁� Dee picks for Nancy H
鉁� Breann picks for Nadine

January 2014 PIFM Challenge

What we read

Updated 2.3.14, through massage #384.

January 2014 PIFM Challenge

Final Stats:

55 Participants began the challenge. 43 reported finishing the challenge. Giving us a 78% completion rate!

We read 101 books! So that is an average of just over 2 per finisher!

I'm in and I guess King's Mansion.

I'm in. It's King's Mansion for me this New Years Eve!

I'm in again. Virgin River or Rules of Scoundrels Series so either will be OK.


Please use my RRRC PIFM Challenge Shelf

I'm in! I choose Jack's at Virgin River!

I'm in Scoundrels Series聽

I'm definitely in. I love my alpha male vampires so King's Mansion here I come!

Oh I'm in and I will be Role playing at Club Shadowlands with the Masters of the Shadowlands xxx

Role playing at Club Shadowlands with the Masters of the Shadowlands

I wanna role play!

I'll be at Club Shadowlands!

I'm in and I guess it would be at the Fallen Angel in the Rules of Scoundrels Series. Happy Holidays!

I'll be joining the Kelly family art the compound (KGI series)

please use my books on deck shelf... I'll post the direct link when I get to a computer.

my books on deck to read shelf

Please add me - I'll be at the Fallen Angel with the Rules of Scoundrels

My preferred shelf is 2014 PIFM

I'm in.

Anywhere ya need me.

MK - i'm in - put me where you need me

please use my to-read-2013 shelf...which will becoming to read 2014 on January 1 ;)

I'm in! Likely as not, you'd find me Roleplaying at Club Shadowlands...

Please use my Pick It For Me shelf.

I'm in! Since I'm hoping to have some quality alone time with my hubby that night I'll go with Club Shadowlands. But really you can put me wherever you need me :)

*If time allows I'll be editing this with a specific shelf, fingers crossed*

Edited ~ PIFM Challenge

If you pick for me I'm happy with my TBR, erotic or BDSM shelves x

Oh yeah if I could I'd be with the Brothers at the King鈥檚 Mansion.

Please use my Soonish or up next shelf

I am in for my bday month!! ;)

Definitely NYE with the Brothers at the King鈥檚 Mansion!!!

Please also pick from my on-deck-and-4chlges shelf (sorry don't know how to make it a link)!

Since I just finished Virgin River, I'll be at Jack's Bar!
And please choose from my To Read shelf only. Thanks so much.

I'm in! I'll hang out with the cute guys at Summit City :)


Please use my PIFM shelf - PIFM Shelf

Well I spend ever New Years with my two best friends who I consider sisters so I will go with.


With the Brothers at the King鈥檚 Mansion in the Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

King's Mansion...that would be a serious party!!!

please pick from rrr-2013-meet-greet-shelf

I missed the deadline for December so I'm definitely in for January!

In real life I'd probably be at Jack's Bar - in romancelandia I'd be a bit bolder and check out Club Shadowlands... so I'm good with whichever.

Please pick from my tbr-owned

Hangin with the brothers at the King's Mansion... :)

I'm in. I also missed December. Ready and Willing for 2014 and with the Brothers at the King鈥檚 Mansion in the Black Dagger Brotherhood Series.

I'm in, I guess I'd be kings mansion.

I'm in! I haven't been able to do one of these since September. Dumb school. lol! I will be at the King's Mansion. :)

I'll be with the BDB guys at the King's Mansion. Can't have too many good looking men in one room right. LOL

Oh I'm definitely with the BDB boyos at King's Mansion! All that yumminess in one place...*drool*

If you don't mind, I'd love if you'd use this shelf for my TBR if possible. :) Feel free to go elsewhere too though.

I'm in and I'll be Gaming with scoundrels at the Fallen Angel!

I'll be at King's Mansion. I'm actually starting the 4th book of this series right now.

I'm totally with the Masters and Club Shadowlands!

please use my read this next shelf
/review/list...

I think I'll go with the King's Mansion. :)

This sounds like fun! I'm in and I'd be role playing at Shadowlands!

My Jan PIFM shelf

i'm in. since the option for "sitting at home, reading" isn't there, just put me wherever you need me.
you can use my to read soon

I'm in! This was a tough choice, but I think I'd like to join the guys at Summit City!

I'd appreciate some picks from my cant-wait-to-read shelf. Thanks!

Hard choice but I think I'll go with Summit City.

I'm in and I'll be with the Kellys at the family compound.

Definitely at the King's Mansion

I'm going to add a shelf Kat

/review/list...

I'll be with the Brothers at the King's Mansion. :-)

Phew! I just edited my post #23 with my preferred list :-)