Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Letter: L

Shelves:

1. children-young-adult
2. comics-graphic-novels
3. young-adult-books
4. beautiful-covers
5. misc-fiction
6. social-commentary
7. family-drama
8. nature
9. speculative
10. modern-literature
11. Victorian
12. sweet

Categories:

a. Published in: 1940 - 1959
b. Number of Pages: 501-600
c. Alternating POVs (2 only)
d. Main Character (90% of book): Male
e. Male Authors
f. Cover is primarily dark colours (black, brown, dark blue etc) Think: Gloomy
g. Number of Pages: 201-300
h. Number of Pages: 600+
i. Published in: 1900 - 1919
j. Published in: 1920 - 1949
k. Has more than 25,000 ratings
l. Published in: 19th Century

Oh, wow! August is going too fast! I can't believe the September list is already up.

Woohoo! Two of the books I've been able to allocate I already have / are on hold with the library. Sadly, I'm bogged down by 2 books for August, otherwise I would start reading them tonight!

And I found another one on the bedside table. If Little House on the Prairie is in Nature then I will be very happy ! ;)

Oh, my! I haven't even started on the summer months!

I have my books chosen...now to find out if they meet the categories. I do love the choosing part.

Bea wrote: " I do love the choosing part."

Me too :0)

Working on my list now!

one of the things which worries me when planning ScatterShelves were that due to the conditions the book will have to fit in (shelves & categories) that books picked will be nearly identical but I'm so glad to see it's not at all! There are maybe, one or two of the same book between a few people but other than that, it's as varied as I could wish :D

Tien wrote: "one of the things which worries me when planning ScatterShelves were that due to the conditions the book will have to fit in (shelves & categories) that books picked will be nearly identical but I'..."

I pick all the books I can on my own and then I look to see what others have picked for shelves and/or categories I'm having problems with. Sometimes I use the book they picked or at least the same author -- or sometimes it gives me other ideas to work from.

I'm exactly the same, Lynn. I've picked up some books I wouldn't normally have read that way too, which is good :)

Amanda wrote: "I'm exactly the same, Lynn. I've picked up some books I wouldn't normally have read that way too, which is good :)"

Exactly. I've read and enjoyed books I would never have chosen without this challenge.

I think Between the Lines would count as only 2 POV, but I wanted to check. There are two protagonists, Oliver and Delilah, and alternate sections give each one's POV. So far, so good. But there are also sections where we read parts of the book in which Oliver lives. I don't think it's really a third POV, but some might see it that way.

What do you think?

I think that's fine as 2 POVs, Susan, as the other part is about Oliver anyway -though as a general background for the readers to help with understanding the story better(?)

Tien wrote: "I think that's fine as 2 POVs, Susan, as the other part is about Oliver anyway -though as a general background for the readers to help with understanding the story better(?)"

Great, thanks! I had been thinking about skipping the POV category until I started reading that book.