Pick-a-Shelf discussion

The aim of this game is to read through your TBR. You can start anytime and this will be one of those perpetual game –it’s open as long as someone is playing (no matter the pace!) ;)

How to Play:
1. Order your GR TBR by Position*.

*As you add books onto your TBR, GR would usually place that book on the last numerical position on your TBR and this will not change unless you manually alter the position number yourself. Therefore, to play this game, you can’t really mess with the position numbers.

2. This year will be a play on ages.

Easiest to explain by way of example.

I will be turning 34 in 2014.

3 Alternate ways to pick books to read (pick one which will suit you and the number of 'to-read' books you have):

A. Addition

To read book at position that is multiple of age.

So I'll be reading books in positions: 34, 68, 102, 136,...

B. Progression

To read book at position that is progression of each digit in age.

So I'll be reading books in positions: 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, (12), 15, 16, 18, 20,...

If there are numbers that coincide, ignore the second time you come across it

C. Subtraction

Working it backwards. So if I have 350 books on my shelf I would be reading books in positions: 316, 282, 248...

(350-34=316; 316-34=282, 282-34-248, etc)

Challenge to officially start 1 January 2014. Books must be pre-planned when joining in challenge and cannot change (as positioning in GR to-read changes as books are being read throughout the year). Remember / record the last book's position you read from


You absolutely DO NOT have to disclose your age. Just post the books you are set to read.

Additional Rules / Clarifications

*If you don’t keep a ‘to-read’ shelf on GR, feel free to create a ‘to-read’ list yourself, if you’d like to join in. You would have to number the books accordingly.

*Feel Free to PLAN ahead but remember to count position from your last book's position (which positions may have changed as books are being read throughout the year)

*Only 2 caveats to substituting books:

1. It's a later book in the series.
You can read the earlier book in same series

2. you absolutely cannot get your hands on it (without spending money that you do not want to spend). Then, you have the discretion to substitute with books of either:
*same number of pages, or
*same year of publication, or
*same author.

*If there is a book you absolutely cannot finish, I would count that as 'completed' as you'd take it out of your 'to-read'.

Note: this will not be counted in the widget, unfortunately. So if you want your widge to read 'completed', you're welcome to either:
1. update the number of books you've committed to read for the challenge (I know, this is fudging!)
2. substitute with a book of your choice.

This is an open ended sort of challenge BUT if you like having goals and seeing your progress during the year, I've set up [Challenge Widget: TBA]

Adrienne

Bea

Coralie

Jennivie

Lyn M

LynnB

Megan L

Rene

Susan

Tien

Bea wrote: "*Feel Free to PLAN ahead but remember to count position from your last book's position (which positions may have changed as books are being read throughout the year)

This is where I got lost in my last TRB try. Can someone help me with this?

If I read a book and it is moved from TBR to READ, then the position number of the following books changes. If I pre-plan my books, then do I need to pre-plan ALL the books in order to not get lost in the TBR? Am I making sense?"

Perfect sense, Bea... I know it's a little confusing!

Say you're going by Addition, you've planned the first 10 books to read. Your 10th book is (currently) number 56 of your GR to-read shelf. Make a note what books are around this 10th book so you can go back to roughly the same position for your next planning.

Say, you're nearly finished your 10th book (it's out of your to-read and on currently-reading), find that book on either #55 or #57 and start counting again from there.

The best thing to do would probably to screen print (Ctrl + alt + print screen) the page that shows your 10th book when you're first planning so you can see what other books are on the page and which one you haven't actually read (in case, you've read #55 & #57 too) that you could use to count for next stage.

Does that help?

Sorry, Bea... I keep forgetting to reserve a spot after the 'rules' etc. Hope you don't mind me deleting your original comment.

Thanks :)

Tien wrote: "The best thing to do would probably to screen print (Ctrl + alt + print screen) the page that shows your 10th book when you're first planning so you can see what other books are on the page and which one you haven't actually read (in case, you've read #55 & #57 too) that you could use to count for next stage.

Does that help?"

Yes. I think the screen shot is a good idea because I am always reading books off the TBR for other challenges too. That is what finally did in my pre-planning last time! LOL

Tien wrote: "Sorry, Bea... I keep forgetting to reserve a spot after the 'rules' etc. Hope you don't mind me deleting your original comment.

Thanks :)"

No problem.

Well, after all that discussion, I realized that my age is high enough that going through the regular TBR in planning would only result in 11 books. Therefore, my plan stands even if books move positions! LOL!

Bea wrote: "Well, after all that discussion, I realized that my age is high enough that going through the regular TBR in planning would only result in 11 books. Therefore, my plan stands even if books move pos..."

I'm right there with you, Bea! Think I'll go with the addition format, though, and just start my count again when I get to the end.

TBR Moving Mountains 2014

Nobody's Fool , read 1/14
Jerusalem: The Biography read 12/14
The Diary of Mattie Spenser
Buffalo Girls - finished in Jan 2015
Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat , read 2/25
A Month in the Country , read 9/20
Pnin , read 9/17
Grass Soup read 12/4
Invention of Clouds
Crossing to Safety , read 10/13

My goal for the year is to read 10 of my TBRs.
8/10 completed

TBR Moving Mountains 2014

Will be 34 by Jan 1 so I will start there and work my way up!

Total: 3/96

TBR:
34: And Then He Kissed Her/Laura Lee Guhrke - ★★★★☆ - 1/4/14
68: Simply Sexual/Kate Pearce - ★★★★☆ - 1/14/14
102: Pleasure's Edge/Eve Berlin - ★★★☆☆ - 2/22/14
136: Hell's Belles/Jackie Kessler
170: Four Play/Maya Banks
204: Educating Caroline/Patricia Cabot
238: Angel's Rest/Emily March
272: Love at First Flight/Marie Force
306: Barely a Lady/Eileen Dreyer
340: Like Coffee and Doughnuts/Elle Parker
374: Everything Forbidden/Jess Michaels
408: Second Chances/T.A. Webb
442: Chosen/Barbara Elsborg
476: Night Walker/Lisa Kessler
510: That Holiday Feeling/Debbie Macomber
544: Glimmerglass/Jenna Black
578: Tantalize/Cynthia Leitich Smith
612: Baby Love/Catherine Anderson
646: The Seeker/Lindsay McKenna
680: Touching Lace/Anne Rainey
714: The Legend of Michael/Lisa Renee Jones
748
782
816
850
884
918
952
986
1020
1054
1088
1122
1156
1190
1224
1258
1292
1326
1360
1394
1428
1462
1496
1530
1564
1598
1632
1666
1700
1734
1768
1802
1836
1870
1904
1938
1972
2006
2040
2074
2108
2142
2176
2210
2244
2278
2312
2346
2380
2414
2448
2482
2516
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2584
2618
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2686
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2754
2788
2822
2856
2890
2924
2958
2992
3026
3060
3094
3128
3162
3196
3230
3264

Bea wrote: "Well, after all that discussion, I realized that my age is high enough that going through the regular TBR in planning would only result in 11 books. Therefore, my plan stands even if books move pos..."

lol - hence the option for progression ;)

though it's also there, if you wanted more of a challenge as it will result in more books to be read.

TBR Moving Mountains 2014

Using A. Addition:

The Bird Sisters
The German Mujahid
Burned -> Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
The Bone House
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery
A Share In Death
Ghost at Stallions Gate -> The Boy in the Suitcase
The Thirteenth Child
Immoral
A Cold Day For Murder
A House to Let

I've decided to use this challenge to tackle books I physically own at home as I seem to keep collecting at a faster pace than my reading of it!

My bookshelf is sorted by alphabetical (author's surname) & size of books. Using Progression, just from the top shelf, I've got 14 books to read!

Edited: I've a very long list elsewhere but I'll only note those I've read here... have also amended my goal to 50 due to my circumstances this year ;)

Cecilia Read 08/27
Gone Girl Read 06/18
Bitter Greens Read 06/19
Drive By Read 07/21
The Bronze Horseman Read 07/30
The White Earth Read 08/06
The Fiery Heart Read 08/11
The Swan Kingdom Read 08/22
The Divinity of Dogs Read 09/02
One Hundred Names Read 10/23
A Confusion of Princes Read 11/05
Lick Read 12/08
What Alice Forgot Read 12/21

13/50 - 12/21/14

Since progression would result in 73 books for me, which is a tad unrealistic, I'm starting off planning addition and subtraction both, which gives 8 books. I'll decide whether I want to do more after I do those. That gives me:

✔Captain_Alatriste - finished 1/14
the-price-of-oranges
✔Thirty_Three_Teeth - finished 11/17
The_Speed_of_Dark
Fearless
✔ The_Blood_of_Flowers - finished 1/1
the-unincorporated-man

completed 3/8
last updated 12/6

I am going to see if I can do this. I am using my age, my to-read-mine shelf, and Addition, which will give me 16 books as it stands today. That should do me for 2014 at least. If I get to the end and I have added books to the list, I will continue with those.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
The Third Secret by Steve Berry
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
Evergreen A Christmas Tale by Richard Taylor
Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
Her Father's House by Belva Plain
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
Mossflower by Brian Jacques
Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
Lifeguard by James Patterson
The Whiskey Bottle in the Wall: Boxed Set by Kathleen Valentine
If Angels Fall by Rick Mofina
The Reluctant Belsnickel of Opelt's Wood by Kathleen Valentine

Bea wrote: "Well, after all that discussion, I realized that my age is high enough that going through the regular TBR in planning would only result in 11 books. Therefore, my plan stands even if books move pos..."

I am there with you, too, Bea. I was able to go through my whole to-read-mine list as it now stands and only have 16 books, so I planned them all. :) If I decide to continue after that, I will pick a new number or something.

Tien - dumb question, but if I plan the books in advance, are we supposed to read them in order? I'm thinking yes, but thought I would check.

nope, you don't have to read them in order. just like I told Bea, take a screen print of your last book's page so you know approximately where you're at for your next planning, if you get there ;)

I have eight books.
The warden's niece
Of Love and Shadows
The Dueling Machine
The Marquise of O
Death in Venice
The Final Solution
Soulless
The Call of the Wild

Tien wrote: "nope, you don't have to read them in order. just like I told Bea, take a screen print of your last book's page so you know approximately where you're at for your next planning, if you get there ;)"

Ya, IF I get there, lol. You know how bad I am with that....

TBR Moving Mountains 2014

0/17

Using both addition and subtraction

XVI
Dead Sexy Dragon
Conscientious Inconsistencies
Broken Angels
Temporary Bliss
Fading
Ground of Oam
Love Left Behind
Fallen
Chronicles of Aurderia: The Balance
Aerie and ReckoningBattlescars
At Any Price
After The Ending
The Arrangement: The Ferro Family
Eternal Rider
Lover Mine

Alrighty! I'm on board. I just have to organize my on-my-bookshelf shelf because I need to focus on books in my house.

I have had to change a couple of my planned books due to the fact that they are not available through my local library.

Burned -> Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

Same number of pages (399) and published in the same year (2010)

A Ghost at Stallion's Gate -> The Boy in the Suitcase

Published in the same year (2011)

Update post #12 to reflect these changes

Alrighty. Because I have made a goal to read stuff I already own (my shelves are groaning), I have decided to set up my Moving Mountains list on my on-my-bookshelf shelf. Woot!!

I just turned 40, so I did the Progression thing.

1. Searching for Jane Austen - Removed because I read it years ago.
2. Captain Wentworth's Persuasion: Jane Austen's Classic Retold Through His Eyes - Read Feb. 4.
3. The End of Your Life Book Club
4. The Bookseller of Kabul
5. Songs of Willow Frost
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - read July 19
7. Prodigal Son
8. Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny
9. Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages - Read Feb. 4
10. Flannery O'Connor
11. The Art of Detection - to replace Number 1.

Adrienne wrote: "Alrighty. Because I have made a goal to read stuff I already own (my shelves are groaning), I have decided to set up my Moving Mountains list on my on-my-bookshelf shelf. Woot!!

I just turned 40..."

Another neat title on your list...I think number 9 is really an interesting title. Have you ever read People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks? The main character is a person who restores ancient manuscripts and she finds all kinds of interesting things between the pages of the book she is working on. That always fascinated me.

readinghearts (Lyn M) wrote: "Adrienne wrote: "Alrighty. Because I have made a goal to read stuff I already own (my shelves are groaning), I have decided to set up my Moving Mountains list on my on-my-bookshelf shelf. Woot!!
..."

I did read that one, and liked it! I work in a library and we are forever finding strange things left in books. Bacon, anyone?

Adrienne wrote: "I did read that one, and liked it! I work in a library and we are forever finding strange things left in books. Bacon, anyone? "

euuh! gross! I hope you found it & clean the book before the bacon actually goes off, urk!

Oh, the book was a goner, but we found it before the bacon stink the place up. Gross.

Moving Mountains 2014

I'm using the progression method, and since I'll be 33 this year that makes it extra easy to count by threes. :) I won't get through my whole list, but I'm going to try to get through 33 to match my age. Also I skipped my first 10 since I plan to do the Lost challenge too.

4/33 books completed

1. Hex Hall
2. The Iron Duke
3. The Candidates
4. Ink Exchange
5. Crime Scene At Cardwell Ranch
6. The Greyfriar
7. Prophecy of the Sisters
8. Secret Society
9. Kitty and the Midnight Hour
10. Deception
11. Evernight
12. The Luxe
13. Some Girls Bite
14. Kiss of Midnight
15. Aurelia
16. Ruby Red
17. Instructions for a Broken Heart
18. Convincing Arthur
19. Wintercraft
20. Geist
21. Dramarama
22. Blood of the Wicked
23. The Map of Time
24. Dead Beautiful
25. Dark Life
26. Sweet Surrender
27. The Monstrumologist
28. Havoc
29. The Buntline Special
30. A Breath of Eyre
31. Innocent Darkness
32. Promethea, Vol. 1
33. Fantasy Lover

Logan wrote: "Moving Mountains 2014

I'm using the progression method, and since I'll be 33 this year that makes it extra easy to count by threes. :) I won't get through my whole list, but I'm going to try to ge..."

Welcome to the challenge, Logan! 33 sounds like a good number for a goal, good luck ;D

It's addition for me. I'll be 37. This should give me a good variety.

19/20

37. The Last Letter from Your Lover 2/17/14
74. Wake 1/28/14
111. The Unquiet 4/30/14
148. The Thorn Birds
185. Book of a Thousand Days 1/17/14
222. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4/18/14
259. Going Bovine 3/1/14
296. Lord Loss 3/14/14
333. I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust 8/29/14
370. If You Find Me 1/31/14
407. A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books 3/6/14
444. Snow Hunters 2/5/14
481. Unwind 2/8/14
518. The Milk of Birds 5/31/14
555. Skylight Confessions 2/12/14
592. Dreamcatcher 3/8/14
629. The BFG 7/28/14
666. Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 3/31/14
703. Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us 4/10/14
740. The Valley of Amazement 3/25/14

Sherri wrote: "It's addition for me. I'll be 37. This should give me a good variety."

Good luck, Sherri. It does look like a good variety!

Hello! I'm brand new to this party. I have an unruly TBR list going (partially this thread's fault) so I thought I would give this challenge a shot. I just found a nifty tool for those of us using the Addition option. Here's a multiples calculator. It makes it so much easier AND you can copy paste the numbers!

http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calcula...

TBR moving mountains- multiples of 33 (my age)
Oh cool I'm pretty excited about this list. I even ended up with mostly the first books of series when I hit upon a cluster of them.

0/25

33 The Host
66 The Icon Thief
99 Worlds Apart
132 Eighth Grade Bites
165 Wild Magic
198 Struck
231 Shattered Glass
264 Lies and Consequences
297 The Shadow Cats
330 The Perfume Alibi
363 The Locker Room
396 book 3 sub book 1 Rodger Dodger
429 Mark of the Seer
462 book 2 sub book 1 Kiss of Pride
495 Wings: Subversive Gay Angel Erotica
528 Finding Zach
561 Inside Out
594 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
627 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
660 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
693 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
726 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
759 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
792 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
825 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...


858 The Misfits (The Misfits, #1) Howe, James

891 The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies
Wilcock, David

924 Cowboys And Kilts
O'Quinn, Erin

957 Power of Quinn
Thornton, Eric

990 Ember (Ember #1)
Daniel, Madison

1023 Andrew Grey- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Jennivie wrote: "Hello! I'm brand new to this party. I have an unruly TBR list going (partially this thread's fault) so I thought I would give this challenge a shot. I just found a nifty tool for those of us using ..."

Thanks, Jennivie! That's useful indeed!
Good luck with your list :)

I read Captain Wentworth's Persuasion and really wish I hadn't. At first, it was okay, but it got worse and worse. Whatever. It's done. On to the next.

Tien wrote: "Thanks, Jennivie! That's useful indeed!
Good luck with your list :) "

You're welcome and thank you!

Adrienne wrote: "I read Captain Wentworth's Persuasion and really wish I hadn't. At first, it was okay, but it got worse and worse. Whatever. It's done. On to the next."

*GASP* you are referring to Persuasion by Jane Austen? or are you talking about a re-telling?

Edited: went back to your list and found you're talking about a re-telling *sigh of relief* LOL

Tien wrote: "Adrienne wrote: "I read Captain Wentworth's Persuasion and really wish I hadn't. At first, it was okay, but it got worse and worse. Whatever. It's done. On to the next."

*GASP* you are referring t..."

Oh! Sorry! I didn't mean to give you a panic attack. Yes, this is a horrible retelling of Jane Austen's perfect Persuasion. Aaargh.

It just so happens, I was going back through my old Reading Journals and found that I had already read Searching for Jane Austen. So, I'll take that one off and add something to the end. That's one way to whittle down the list!

Adrienne wrote: "It just so happens, I was going back through my old Reading Journals and found that I had already read Searching for Jane Austen. So, I'll take that one off and add something to the e..."

lol -it's a great way to trim it down :)

I'm in. My target is 50 books, I'm going to use my ebook list - once I've finished updating it. My goodreads tbr only goes back to 2010, my ebook list so far goes back to 2006.

I'm going to use addition and I don't mind anybody knowing that I'll be 41 on my birthday.

Ok - I'm going to give this a go. I want to work backwards. I started with 10 as a goal, but realized the list was 11 if I included the last book on the list, so I'm going to go with that. What an eye opener it was to look at this list - It's been ages since I thought of some of these!

1. While Beauty Slept - Elizabeth Blackwell
2. Worst. Person. Ever. - Doug Copeland
3. Nowhere But Home - Liza Palmer
4. The Lady Most Willing...: A Novel in Three Parts
5. The Restorer - Amanda Stevens
6.To Seduce an Earl - Lori Brighton
7. The Haret - Denise Parton
8. Soulless - Gail Carriger
9. The Playboy - Carly Phillips
10. The Kindness of Strangers - Katrina Kettle
11. Happiness Sold Separately - Lolly Winston

As of 6.30 p.m on the 3rd April my to be read ebook list is finally up to date, no doubt by the weekend it will be out of date again.

So my moving mountains list is

1.Byzantium
2.Hunters of the Dusk
3.Sir Thursday
4.Dark Celebration
5.Taken by Storm
6.The Endless Knot
7.Flatlander
8.Reprisal
9.The Risen Empire
10.The Hidden City
11.Death Match
12.Partisans
13.The Cold Moon
14.Sharpe's Enemy
15.Skeleton Coast
16.Mistress of Justice
17.Wild Seed
18.Hostage
19.The Devil and Miss Prym - read 24/04/2014
20.The Adventure of the Crooked Man
21.The Queen of the Swords
22.Camber of Culdi
23.The Rise of Endymion
24.L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
25.Deuces Down
26.The Fall
27.The Dragon on the Border
28.Shadow of the Hegemon
29.The Arctic Event
30.A Breach of Promise
31.Divided Souls
32.A Kidnapped Santa Claus
33.Escape from Hell
34.Galactic Pot-Healer
35.Shadow Prowler
36.Matchless: A Christmas Story
37.Living with the Dead
38.Jimmy the Hand
39.The Bridges at Toko-ri
40.Memorial Day
41.The Hellfire Club
42.Death Row
43.Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
44.Friday's Child
45.After Midnight
46.The Speed of Dark
47.A Werewolf Among Us
48.The Mask
49.An Advancement Of Learning
50,Dead or Alive

I have pledged 7 books. Let's see if I actually get to them all what with school and other fun activities.

(1) 17. Interview With The Vampire
(2) 34. Beautiful Creatures
(3) 51. Troubadour
(4) 68. Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
(5) 85. While I Live
(6) 102. Feed
(7) 119. The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive

858 The Misfits (The Misfits, #1) Howe, James

891 The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies
Wilcock, David

924 Cowboys And Kilts
O'Quinn, Erin

957 Power of Quinn
Thornton, Eric

990 Ember (Ember #1)
Daniel, Madison

1023 Andrew Grey- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

How are people going with this? Doesn't look like many of you are updating your list? I'm doing very very poorly myself, eek, and we're nearly halfway through the year!

Me too, Tien! Only 4 out of 33 done so far. It's so hard to plow through these old books!

Logan wrote: "Me too, Tien! Only 4 out of 33 done so far. It's so hard to plow through these old books!"

some of them really aren't that old (the way I sort them, I've a whole mix bag of them) -I've just finished one that was published (& bought) a couple of years ago.

I don't think I have read anything on this particular list yet! Yikes!