Another Question

I read one of my book choices and wrote my version of a review (have patience with me, I've not had much experience in reviewing), and realized that I'm not entirely sure what to do with it. So here's a question about how things should work once everyone begins reading. Do we all post here and reference reviews on our own blogs, like I see Rhinoa has done, or should the first one to read a particular book post his/her review on this site, using the title of the book as the title of the post, and all subsequent readers add their reviews/comments to the initial post for the book, or yet another option, does our kind host create an empty post (just a title) for each book, and we use the comments to discuss and link to our reviews?

Why, oh why, does this person keep asking questions??? Well, I took one of those online quizzes and found out that I can't accomplish anything without explicit, intricately detailed, step-by-step instructions. ;)

A Question...

After August 1st, how long does the challenge last? I have read every single person's list here and there are 18 books I want to read so far (and some I would want to read if I hadn't already, thank goodness I've already read many of them), and people still have a month and a half left to post more lists! If the reading part of the challenge only lasts a month, I need to narrow it down, but if it goes until the end of the year, I'm in fine shape. So, what is the deadline on the reading part?

How to list

Now that I've been invited and have logged in I notice that I do not have the priviledge of editing the sidebar. Is this something that you do for us or am I missing something?

What do you think....

.....of my posting the books to choose from in the sidebar? It has occurred to me, as people continue to join, that our sidebar is going to get pretty darn long. I like to be able to scroll down through (since my plan was to read one book by each participant - haha) but it might get cumbersome. It is, after all, only April and the challenge doesn't even start until August!! Any other ideas for how we might list the books?

Also, I have some thoughts on prizes. Originally, I was going to follow the way most people do it. See who finishes the challenge, pull a name out of a hat, give some kind of a prize...

But it seems to me that every one who even submits their list is committing an act of bravery to let people into their lives in this way. I'm thinking I may give one prize at the beginning from all the participants, and then one at the end, too.