Pick-a-Shelf discussion

A day early because my PC died 4 weeks ago and my laptop decided to follow suit last week :p As a consequence, I couldn't do this at home and sneaking this in at work, just before hometime :) Enjoy!

Letter: T

Shelves:

1. american-history
2. medieval
3. real-life
4. dragons
5. bad-boys
6. mystery-suspense-thriller
7. regency
8. tragedy
9. classic-lit
10. european
11. cozy-mystery
12. foreign

Categories:

a. Female Authors
b. Number of Pages: 100-200
c. Cover is primarily bright colours (white, yellow, pink etc) Think: Happy
d. Multiple POVs (more than 2)
e. Has more than 500 but less than 10,000 ratings
f. Number of Pages: 401-500
g. An average rating of more than 3.5 stars
h. Added to your to-read shelf after your first year of joininig GR but before 1 January 2013*
i. Plant on cover (partials acceptable)
j. Person on cover (partials acceptable)
k. Published in: 1940 - 1959
l. Published in: 1980 - 1999

*if you don’t maintain a to-read shelf of GR (as I know some of you don’t), here’s an alternative:
h. Books purchased / received before Christmas 2012 but less than 5^ years ago

^I'm just using 5 years as a gauge (PAS is also 5 yo!) -you are more than welcome to change this number to suit your books but 3 will be the lowest number. Please make a note of it on your thread if you are changing the number of years.

Oh, wow, is it that time already? I haven't read many of my July books yet -- must get to work!!!

I know, the time just seems to be flying by, doesn't it?

oh, LynnB, I haven't even completed ONE card! ;p

Tien wrote: "oh, LynnB, I haven't even completed ONE card! ;p"

Neither have I.

I have managed one. Hats off to all those who have finished several!

Lauren wrote: "I have managed one. Hats off to all those who have finished several!"

I second that!
It's definitely have been one of the most challenging game we've had so far :)

Tien wrote: "It's definitely have been one of the most challenging game we've had so far :)"

Most definitely! Fun, though, to try to find books to fit the categories, shelves, and letter. I'm finding T to be much harder than I would have thought. With "the" not qualifying, it knocks out a lot of books!

LynnB wrote: "With "the" not qualifying, it knocks out a lot of books!"

Oh, I missed that fact! Now I need to re-do my selections. No wonder I found it so easy!

Bea wrote: "Oh, I missed that fact! Now I need to re-do my selections. No wonder I found it so easy!"

Doesn't that make you crazy?!! I can't believe all the times I think I have a great slate of books, then find that some don't match the letter somehow. Argh!

I haven't even finished one card yet either guys, but these games are always so much fun!

Half of the fun is finding the books that match the shelf, letter and category. Actually reading the book is a bonus :0)

I agree Lauren!

Lauren wrote: "Half of the fun is finding the books that match the shelf, letter and category. Actually reading the book is a bonus :0)"

lol - and here I thought reading challenges were about READING????!? Ha ha ha

Bea wrote: "LynnB wrote: "With "the" not qualifying, it knocks out a lot of books!"

Oh, I missed that fact! Now I need to re-do my selections. No wonder I found it so easy!"

Oh boo! That is annoying that it's kinda fun that you get to re-do your list ;p

Halfway through the year and I have finally mastered my excel book selection chart! :-P This is the first month that I didn't sit at the computer browsing books the whole day on the 15th! I was kind of bummed that I couldn't find the time. I've been itching to knock it out!!

I've also only completed 1 month, but I'm not bothered by it. Just keep swimming ;)

lol - half the fun of this challenge is that we have something to look forward to every month :)

don't worry, Christina, I haven't completed a card... the closest I've gotten to is 10 books for Jan! 2 more and I'll complete 1 card -I'll be celebrating really hard when that day comes, ha ha ha

Tien wrote: "lol - half the fun of this challenge is that we have something to look forward to every month :)

don't worry, Christina, I haven't completed a card... the closest I've gotten to is 10 books for Ja..."

hahaha I know you will. I did when I finally finished one! Thanks for the pep talk Tien :)

I have a question about multiple POV's. Would a series of short stories count? In most, there's an omniscient narrator. In 3 or 4, there's a first-person narrator, and it's a different person in each different story. It's the book I read for the dragons category, and I got to wondering about POV's as I was reading the stories.

Susan wrote: "I have a question about multiple POV's. Would a series of short stories count? In most, there's an omniscient narrator. In 3 or 4, there's a first-person narrator, and it's a different person in ea..."

um, are the short stories in the one book?
which one is this?

Tien wrote: "um, are the short stories in the one book?
which one is this? "

Yes, they are. It's Fangs 'n Fire: Ten Dramatic Dragon Tales.

Susan, I think if the stories are interconnected / related somehow then yes, I'll accept as multiple POV but if stories are each unique / individual then I would say no...

fair?

Sounds reasonable. And I think the book fails that test. They stories are all about dragons, but have little else in common -- none of the same characters, etc. It somehow didn't seem to me quite like it would qualify, but I couldn't put my finger on it. And I think your idea of interconnectedness explains it well.