Ok people, look below to find out which books made it through to the NerdsHeartYA shortlist:
Donut Days – Lara Zielin
Me, Just Different – Stephanie Morrill
Pure – Terra Elan McVoy
The World is Mine – Lyah B. LeFlore
Gringolandia – Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Wanting Mor – Rukhsana Khan
Devil’s Kiss – Sarwat Chadda
Jumped – Rita Williams-Garcia
Guantanamo Boy – Anna Perera
Shine, Coconut Moon – Neesha Meminger
Skunk Girl – Sheba Karim
Last Night I Sang to the Monster – Benjamin Alire-Saenz
The Rock and the River – Kekla Magoon
Purple Heart – Patricia McCormick
Alligator Bayou – Donna Jo Napoli
Almost Perfect – Brain Katcher
Medina Hill – Trilby Kent
Lost – Jacqueline Davies
In the Path of Falling Objects – Andrew Smith
Funny How Things Change – Melissa Wyatt
Blessing’s Bead – Debby Dahl-Edwardson
The Blonde of the Joke – Bennett Madison
Say the Word – Jeannine Garsee
In Mike We Trust – P E Ryan
Evil? – Timothy Carter
Beautiful – Amy Reed
Tilmon County Fire – Pamela Ehrenberg
The Vast Fields of Ordinary – Nick Burd
Once You Go Back – Douglas A. Martin
Anything but Typical – Nora Raleigh Baskin
Border Crossing – Jessica Lee-Anderson
Rowan the Strange- Julie Hearn
And here’s who will be reading what:
If you’re in the later rounds, please refer back to the original judging bracket graphic to see which books could potentially filter through to you later in the competition.
The schedule for posting first round judging decisions is:
June 15th: Heidenkind’s Hideaway Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day
June 15th Bookish Blather arch thinking
June 17th: opinionated? me? Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog
June 17th: Rhapsody In Books
June 19th: Good Books & Good Wine
June 19th: Pineapples & Pyjamas
June 21st: Regular Rumination
June 21st: Beth Fish Reads
June 23rd: Melanie’s Musings
June 23rd: Book Addiction Read What You Know
June 25th: Books, Movies and Chinese Food
June 25th: Maw Books
June 27th: BookLust
June 27th: Valentina’s Room
June 29th: Linus’s Blanket
June 29th:The Neverending Shelf
Please post your reviews and your judging decision on your assigned day, no sooner. You can write reviews, general thoughts posts, just post a decision or write anything else you want about the books you’ve been asked to judge.
Joint reviewers please get in touch with your partners and work out a wonderful NerdsHeartYA decision scheme (please contact nerdsheartya@googlemail.com right away if you can’t get in contact with your partner).
The posting schedule for people judging the later rounds still needs to be finalised. Stay tuned for more news soon!
Lastly can I just ask all the judges for this first round to leave a comment here as soon as possible, or on our Twitter feed confirming that they’re still ok to judge.
That’s it, have fun reading!
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May 21, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Angela
Does it matter if we’ve already read and reviewed on our blogs one of the books we’re assigned to judge?
Otherwise, yes, I’m still fine to judge.
May 21, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Heather
Yep I’m in.
But please forgive me… what month are these dates in? LOL I can’t remember!!
May 21, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Anastasia
Still judging!
May 21, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Katie
Definitely still in!
May 21, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Michelle
I’m still in as well – a bit confused about what book I’m reviewing
May 21, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Lorin
I’m in.
May 21, 2010 at 8:18 pm
rhapsodyinbooks
Could you give us (and maybe you already have, but I don’t see it) some links for last year of NON-two blog reviews for books? What I’m saying is, I remember reading some joint reviews and can see how that can go, but I don’t remember reading any one-person review of two books. I probably did, but would love some links to refresh my memory!
May 21, 2010 at 11:54 pm
bookgazing
Angela I’m pretty sure you’re good, but I want to consult with the other organisers first so I’ll get back to you asap.
Heather please see revised dates schedule above, we’re talking June.
Michelle sorry but what is your blog name? If you tell me that I can tell you what you’re reviewing.
rhapsody I judged but wasn’t co-reviewing last year so you can check out the way I did it (not the only way though): I reviewed each book: http://bookgazing.blogspot.com/2009/06/nerds-heart-ya-first-round-review-what.html, http://bookgazing.blogspot.com/2009/06/second-first-round-review-nerds-heart.html
and then announced my decision: http://bookgazing.blogspot.com/2009/06/nerds-heart-ya-round-one-decision.html
But we didn’t get allocated specific days to post last year, just a deadline to review by, so you’d have to make sure all your reviews and your decisions post were up on the same day.
May 22, 2010 at 1:13 am
rhapsodyinbooks
Thanks! very helpful!
June 8, 2010 at 2:09 am
Michelle
Sorry I’m so late in getting back here – I’m Pineapples & Pyjamas – and thanks!!
May 22, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Meg @ write meg!
Still in — and excited!
May 22, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Kate
Looks good to me. I am still in and ready to get started.
May 22, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Lu
So excited! 😀
May 22, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Ari Reading in Color
What a great list! I need to read Last Night I Sang to the Monster and the Vast Fields of Ordinary. I’ll be looking forward to reviews of the other books listed here, I’ll probably have an even scarier TBR pile after the first round 🙂
Although I’m surprised Jumped is on there, I thought it was pretty well-known?
May 22, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Aarti
Yay! Definitely still in, but am confused as to which books I’m reading… is it the two above my blog name? Or the one on top and the one below?
May 22, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Aarti
And just commenting again so I can sign-up for followup comments!
May 22, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Deborah
still in!
May 23, 2010 at 3:11 am
Melanie
I’m still in!
I’m a bit confused about which books I’m supposed to be reading as well. I’m assuming it’s the one directly above and below my blog name? If so, I’ve already read Border Crossing. Is that ok?
May 23, 2010 at 2:18 pm
bookgazing
Everyone it’s the one above your blog name and the one below that you should be reading 🙂
May 24, 2010 at 5:33 pm
bookgazing
Melanie I will be in touch asap.
May 29, 2010 at 10:33 am
nora
what can I say…I am honored!
May 31, 2010 at 9:07 am
kidkraft
wow! there sure are a lot of books to read.
June 2, 2010 at 8:57 am
bookgazing
Nora we’re so glad you’re pleased 🙂
kidkraft there are tons of great books out there we don’t hear so much about.
June 5, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Debby Dahl Edwardson
Thanks, nerds hear ya! I am honored. In support of this effort, I am sponsoring a competition at http://www.debbydahledwardson.com/blog.htm?post=708260
Thanks again.
June 5, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Debby Dahl Edwardson
Oops: nerds heart ya, not nerds hear ya–although I hope they do. And speaking of typos: Rukhsana Khan’s book is entitled: Wanting Mor.
June 7, 2010 at 3:05 pm
bookgazing
Thanks Debby, we’ll be sure to tweet about your contest soon and ta for spotting the typo, we’ll get that changed.
June 15, 2010 at 3:31 pm
pussreboots
Our decision is posted.