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March 2014 PIFM Challenge

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 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 requested into the super secret PIFM randomiser 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 personalised shelves, especially their exclusive shelves - it could be very helpful in recommending something they want to read. A personalised shelf is one that a member has labelled themselves, for example, 'to read next', 'can't wait to read', 'favourites'.

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 organiser 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 an 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:

Hypothetically, if you could, how would you spend Mardi Gras and/or St. Patricks day?

- A quiet evening at home (quiet is good)
- Partying (no rules and no repercussions)

March is a month of celebration. So, we're going to celebrate both Mardi Gras and St. Patricks Day!

Mardi Gras: Signifies the beginning of Lent which is celebrated by food/drink, parties, and parades.

St. Patricks Day: A day observed to commemorate the patron saint of Ireland which is also celebrated by food/drink, parties, and parades.



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

IMPORTANT DATES
Sign-ups will remain open until February 22nd (8 pm EST).

You’ll have until February 26th (8 pm EST) to make your recommendations.

*Please note that late sign ups will be included after re-picks are assigned!*

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’re 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!***

March 2014 PIFM Challenge
Participants

Quiet Evening Home
Zara- (rrrc-pifm-challenge)
Elizabeth
Lacy
Laurla- (01-tbr-owned)
Victoria
Elke- (on-deck-and-4chlges)
Skandia
Nancy H
Diane ~Firefly~
Penney- (PIFM Challenge)
KarenH- (cant-wait-to-read)
Arena
Nichole- (PIFM Shelf)
Amy J
Grace
Nemo
MountainKat- (to read asap) and/or (meet-n-greet round 2)
Joyce
Sandy
Jaime
Carla_Collette
Breann- (PIFM pick me)
Victoria "Trea"- (pick-it-for-me)
Suzanne
Pam
Runell
Macwolf01 {Elise}
Jasmin
Erin
Mary-Ann
Rachel~Goodbye Borders
Alexis
Ra-Luka- (To-read shelf)
Ashley Private profile


Party Time
Gigi- (rrrc-pick4me)
Dee- (to-read-2014)
Leslie
Angi- (kindle-books-tbr)
Sallie(Shuga)- (rrr-2014-meet-greet)
Shelby- (Gang Bang) and/or (Meet and Greet)
Kimberly
Kami
Aarati
Ty
Ezinwanyi~still loves Spartacus
Fran- (a PIFM shelf)
Irina
Kaileigh- (Picking shelf)
Beppy- (PIFM-2014)
Daffodil
Valerie

Please pick for the person below you. The last person in the row, please pick for the first person in your row.

Pairings
� = Picks Made

Quiet Time
� Macwolf01 {Elise}
� Pam
� Grace
� Nichole- (PIFM Shelf)
� Jaime
� Penney- (PIFM Challenge)
� Carla_Collette
� KarenH- (cant-wait-to-read)
� Skandia
� Elke- (on-deck-and-4chlges)
� Laurla- (01-tbr-owned)
� MountainKat- (to read asap) and/or (meet-n-greet round 2)
� Victoria
� Lacy
� Arena Gigi
� Breann- (PIFM pick me)
� Runell
� Elizabeth
� Zara- (rrrc-pifm-challenge)
� Amy J
� Diane ~Firefly~
� Nemo
� Victoria "Trea"- (pick-it-for-me)
� Joyce
� Suzanne
� Nancy H
� Sandy
� Rachel~Goodbye Borders
� Ashley (Private Profile)
� Alexis
� Ra-Luka- (To-read shelf)
� Mary-Ann
� Jasmin
� Erin

Party Time
�Angi- (kindle-books-tbr)
� Kami
� Valerie
� Irina
� Leslie
� Kaileigh- (Picking shelf)
� Ty
� Fran- (a PIFM shelf)
� Kimberly
� Gigi- (rrrc-pick4me)
� Shelby- (Gang Bang) and/or (Meet and Greet)
� Dee- (to-read-2014)
� Beppy- (PIFM-2014)
� Sallie(Shuga)- (rrr-2014-meet-greet)
� Daffodil
� Ezinwanyi~still loves Spartacus
� Aarati


Repicks Volunteers
NancyH
Zara
KarenH

PIFM RULES

Please pick a new book and a book from your pickee's TBR for each one of the four categories below, when possible.

1. Costumes: Pick books with green, purple, gold, a hat, a mask or neckwear on the cover, or you may also select books set in Louisiana (or the South), Ireland (or Europe) or any location that has large celebrations for Mardi Gras or St. Patrick's Day.
(NEW/TBR)

2. Overindulgence: Recommend a book by one of their favorite authors and a new to them book by one of your favorite authors, because sometimes you just need to indulge in something you love.
(NEW/TBR)

3. Parties & Parades: Who doesn't love getting together with friends, suggest books with a large gathering or celebration or the next book in one of your pickee's favorite series or you may also pick a new to them series that you think they would like.
(NEW/TBR)

4. Rowdy, Out of Control, Pushing Boundaries Behavior: Sometimes you just need a push to read something new (or old)! So recommend a new genre or author for your pickee that you believe they will enjoy. Also, pick an oldie off their TBR that shouldn't be gathering dust anymore!
(NEW/TBR)

Let the picking begin! Have fun!

**FAVORITE AUTHOR TIP: on your pickees homepage on the right hand side under friends, people following, and a promotional ad, there is a list of "(pickees name) Favorite Authors" -which is really a most read author list. You can use that as a guide. Feel free to PM me if you want help finding that list. If you click on that list, it will tell you some of the last books read by your pickee by those particular authors. Very cool feature!

a quiet evening at home for me.

Please use my RRRC PIFM Challenge shelf. Thanks

A quiet evening at home.

Partying for me, not too crazy though

@ home!!!

It's about the one month I actually party :)

I'm more of a home-body these days but this year I'll be on a cruise at St. Patrick's Day, so I'm gonna say Party!!!

01-tbr-owned

I haven't participated in this for so long, but I'm really rather excited now! :)

And for me, it's a quiet evening at home:)

I'm a New Orleans girl, so it's Let the Good Times Roll for me!!

Fat Tuesday is just the culmination of 2 weeks of parades.

On St. Patty's Day in New Orleans there is big parade and they throw cabbages and other foods to make an Irish stew. It's awesome.

I am in!! Quiet evening at home....eating! Lol!!

**please also use my "on deck" shelf.

~Leslie~ wrote: "I'm a New Orleans girl, so it's Let the Good Times Roll for me!!

Fat Tuesday is just the culmination of 2 weeks of parades.

On St. Patty's Day in New Orleans there is big parade and they throw c..."

Leslie! That sounds amazing and a ton of fun. I wish I could be there! LOL

@Laurla- That is a nice way to spend St. Patricks Day!

Partying
Please use my "Kindle-books-tbr" shelf

Im in for me it would PARTY!!!but i'll be home :(
but definitely party - please use my "rrr-2014-meet&greet" shelf...

I don't celebrate those holidays anyway so I'll be at home!

Ok I'm usually the quiet at night at home girl, but being Irish and with a crazy Irish redhead for a best friend St. Patty's is usually the one holiday I get dragged out to the bar.

Please use my Gang bang or Meet and Greet for some picks. Thanks!

I'm in for party :)

Probably quiet evening at home with friends (although we tend to get quite noisy with laughter anyway!)

I'm in. I would love to party if I could hypothetically since I won't really be. Partying (no rules and no repercussions)

I'm in and I prefer the quiet

I'm in and will be drinking quietly, but happily, at home :-)
Please use my pifm shelf

partying for me. I don't do that at all. But I'd like to go out with my friends for a quite lunch/dinner, and maybe a carnival if there is one.

Gigi, I just noticed that you've missed Lacy's post #8 :)

I'm in! I'm soooo not a partier, so I'll go with a quiet evening at home.

Please use my cant-wait-to-read shelf for at least some of my picks...thanks!

Elizabeth wrote: "Gigi, I just noticed that you've missed Lacy's post #8 :)"

Yikes! Thanks Elizabeth. I'm fixing that now.

A quiet evening at home. 

I'm definitely a quiet evening at home person.
Please use my PIFM shelf.

in.

normally, it's a quiet evening, but this year, it's party time!

A quiet evening at home

I'm in. Please put me under quiet evening at home. Thanks!

For me it will be a quiet day at home, i have too much work! :)

Elizabeth wrote: "Gigi, I just noticed that you've missed Lacy's post #8 :)"

Thanks! ;)

Please count me in for a quiet evening although we should be out celebrating, hubby's family is Irish and we still carry the name! I can trace family back to Ireland too, but it is a generation or two further back than his side. I guess we didn't get those genes in the mix!

Please use my to-read-asap or meet-n-greet-round-2 shelves. Thanks!

quiet evening at home for me.

I'm in for quiet evening at home. :-)

Partying please. I have quiet evenings now. i need to cut up a little bit:D

MountainKat wrote: "Please count me in for a quiet evening although we should be out celebrating, hubby's family is Irish and we still carry the name! I can trace family back to Ireland too, but it is a generation or..."

LOL!! You're welcome, and thank you as well.

I'm in and it's a party for me :)


Please choose a few from my PIFM shelf

List updated (and double-checked) through post 40

Sorry Lacy.

in please. with a quiet evening at home

All set!

I'm in--a quiet evening at home :)

I'm in for quiet night. Please pick a couple from this shelf

/review/list...

I'm In for Partying, no rules or repercussions!

List updated!

Gigi wrote: "List updated (and double-checked) through post 40

Sorry Lacy."

No Problem!! :)

I'm in and I'm up for partying. Please use this shelf: pickingshelf xxxx

You're all set!