Pick-a-Shelf discussion

sorry, I'm late, guys... here it is!!

Letter: P

Shelves:

1. in-the-libray
2. modern-lit
3. asia
4. started-but-didn’t-finish
5. pleasure-reading
6. non-fic
7. five-star-books
8. top-100
9. non-series
10. fiction-other
11. school-reads
12. finished-series

Categories:

a. Published in: 1980 – 1999
b. Published in: 1960 - 1979
c. Number of Pages: 100-200
d. Number of Pages: 401-500
e. Published in: 1940 - 1959
f. Number of Pages: 501-600
g. Male Authors
h. Cover is primarily bright colours (white, yellow, pink etc) Think: Happy
i. Female Authors
j. Published after 2009
k. Alternating POVs (2 only)
l. Main Character (90% of book): Male

reserved

reserved

With links:

1. in-the-library
2. modern-lit
3. asia
4. started-but-did't-finish
5. pleasure-reading
6. non-fic
7. five-star-books
8. top-100
9. non-series
10. fiction-other
11. school-reads
12. finished-series

Oh,no! Not another 2-POV book already. Groan.

Ack! April's list already! My son just got married and I am so behind on March's list. We had to travel to the wedding and there were so many activities planned that I didn't get any reading done. Guess I had better do some quick reading to catch up!

I noticed that category G and I are for authorS, (plural). Does that mean a book written by multiple male/female authors or can it just be one author?

shelf 6 is wrong. its non-fic not non-fiction

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Christina wrote: "shelf 6 is wrong. its non-fic not non-fiction

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/..."

Thanks, Christina. I couldn't get that shelf to come up as non-fic. I appreciate the correction.

no problem!

Bea wrote: "With links:

1. in-the-library
2. modern-lit
3. asia
4. started-but-did't-finish
5. pleasure-reading
6. non-fic
7. five-star-books
8. top-100
9. non-series
10. fiction-other
11. school-reads
1..."

I wonder why Tien's links don't work? Some of them do and some of them don't. Wonder if GR is having problems. At any rate, Thanks for redoing the list, Bea!

Bea wrote: "I noticed that category G and I are for authorS, (plural). Does that mean a book written by multiple male/female authors or can it just be one author?"

I was looking at what people used in the prior months, i.e. Female Authors in February, and it looks like everyone is using books written by just one author.

readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "I wonder why Tien's links don't work? Some of them do and some of them don't. Wonder if GR is having problems. At any rate, Thanks for redoing the list, Bea!
"

If you copy and paste an web address without hand typing any part of if, it won't work. I just go through and delete one letter in the link and then retype it. It always seems to work that way. Many sites have that feature. Reduces spam posts.

Christina wrote: "readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "I wonder why Tien's links don't work? Some of them do and some of them don't. Wonder if GR is having problems. At any rate, Thanks for redoing the list, Bea!
"

If yo..."

There is an html way that GR uses and that is usually what Tien does, and I am sure it is what she did this time. I'm not sure why they are not all working...Maybe she did a typo in the code some where or something.

readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "Christina wrote: "readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "I wonder why Tien's links don't work? Some of them do and some of them don't. Wonder if GR is having problems. At any rate, Thanks for redoing the li..."

Yes, I use the same one. I only know because she shared January's.

(a href="http://www.goodreads.com")my link text(/a)

change the ( to < and the ) to >

my link text

From what I've found. Posting one seems to work, posting multiple must send a warning or something. I repost with the links every month and if I don't mess with the link, they never work, but I rarely post one by itself, which I just did above, and it worked fine. Who knows! :)

It has been working doing the multiple ones so far...

Christina wrote: "readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "Christina wrote: "readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "I wonder why Tien's links don't work? Some of them do and some of them don't. Wonder if GR is having problems. At any r..."

Interesting, I think I misunderstood what you were saying. I might try that if I have problems in the future. I have never done anything but copy and paste the web address before.

Got a question guys...

I'm trawling through my TBR listings and see that I have The Lightning Thief there. I know that 'P' doesn't appear in the starting of the title, but on the listing on Goodreads it has the subtitle (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) on it.

So... can this be used as identified on Goodreads or do we just go with the title on the cover?

Niamh wrote: "Got a question guys...

I'm trawling through my TBR listings and see that I have The Lightning Thief there. I know that 'P' doesn't appear in the starting of the title, but on the list..."

I understood that we can't use the name of the series. Correct?

Thats what I thought Lauren but it would be nice if it was and I could knock off a couple of my TBRs. I'm actually finding so many more books that I want to read during my searches for books that fit in the Scattershelves challenge. My TBR is starting to get out of control... I just can't stop adding books. lol

Niamh wrote: "Thats what I thought Lauren but it would be nice if it was and I could knock off a couple of my TBRs. I'm actually finding so many more books that I want to read during my searches for books that f..."

haha I know what you mean! This is my 3rd year doing one of this groups crazy challenges, and therefore, my TBR list was already out of control due to the last two years' challenges. This year I only look at books that are TBR list to see if they fit the challenge. I think only 1-3 were not on my list already... Doing good so far ;)

For those looking to fill category k (POVs), this one should work:

Eleanor & Park

It is on the started-but-didn't-finish shelf, the pleasure-reading shelf, and the non-series shelf

Niamh wrote: "Thats what I thought Lauren but it would be nice if it was and I could knock off a couple of my TBRs. I'm actually finding so many more books that I want to read during my searches for books that f..."

Tell me about it. My TBR is growing out of control because of this challenge :0)

Niamh wrote: "Got a question guys...

I'm trawling through my TBR listings and see that I have The Lightning Thief there. I know that 'P' doesn't appear in the starting of the title, but on the list..."

Lauren is right. It must be the actual name of the book or the author. For one thing, the Percy Jackson notation is not really the title of the book as it was published. It is just Goodreads way of keeping track of the series.

yup, sorry, series don't count.

single author is fine. I think I just use "authors" as in any as long as male / female as required.

apologies for the non working links. GR doesn't like it when I copy and paste from a word doc... i usually have to fix all the (") as they come out funny. Thanks, Bea, for posting working links. I was too exhausted on Sunday evening to do much more... sorry :)

Tien wrote: "Thanks, Bea, for posting working links. I was too exhausted on Sunday evening to do much more... sorry :)"

No problem, Tien. :)

Thanks for all your hard work, Tien. You've really made this a fun challenge :0)

April already, I'm only halfway through February. Roll on the end of March when I'm off for two weeks.

I know, Karen....time flies, right.