Emily’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2017)

Emily’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

That's fine, thanks for letting me know!

Thanks Nadine! I'm leaving for the beach this week so I had to go on theme lol

Voting is open for Poll 4! Catch up on the discussion and vote here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Don't forget that this is our multi-week poll, which means no more than 6 total weeks will make it to our final list. Keep that in mind while voting!

Sorry y'all, work got hectic yesterday. Voting is open now, and I've updated the dates!

https://forms.gle/XF5gUiWKBCv5wYPT6

Nike wrote: "Emily wrote: "THOUGHTS AND IDEAS FROM THE SUGGESTIONS THREAD

1. 2 Weeks: A book related to a beginning and a book related to an end
"Some examples of beginning themes could be a new relationship, ..."

Hey Nike, could you type it out exactly as you'd want it copy and pasted?

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THOUGHTS AND IDEAS FROM THE SUGGESTIONS THREAD

1. 2 Weeks: A book related to a beginning and a book related to an end
"Some examples of beginning themes could be a new relationship, birth, starting something new like a job or hobby, the start of a civilization, childhood, title with the word “beginning” or “first” or “start”, the first book of a series, etc.

Some examples of ending themes could be death, breakups, settings of nighttime, quitting or giving something up, adulthood, New Year’s Eve, the last book of a series, the end of an empire or civilization, titles with the word “end” or “last” or “final”, etc."

2. 3 Weeks: A book relating to Blood, A book relating to Sweat, and A book relating to Tears
Blood could e g be a thriller or a romance novel or a multigeneration family saga.

Sweat could e g be a book set in a tropical environment or about a stressful situation like being hunted by enemies. Maybe a novel including sports or giving birth.

Tears could e g be a book about grief or unhappy love. Tears of relief or tears of joy.

3. 2 Weeks: Two books with sequential numbers in the title
Examples- One Hundred Years of Solitude, 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
One Italian Summer, A Tale of Two Cities
The Three of Us, The Four Winds
Station Eleven, Twelfth Night
Twelve Years a Slave, Thirteen Reasons Why
Slaughterhouse Five, Six of Crows
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Eight Hundred Grapes

4. 4 Weeks: A book connected to Northeast, A book connected to Southeast, A book connected to Northwest, & a book connected to Southwest
The NE, SE, NW, and SW is a geography prompt.
Reads could use the equator and prime meridian and read from one of the 4 quadrants of the globe.
Or use a continent, like Africa or Asia.
Or use a country, like the one they live in, or a country they'd like t read more books from

5. 2 Weeks: Two books related to high and low
Ideas:
High and low altitude settings, eg. mountains and sea-level
A high fantasy and a low fantasy
High and low temperatures
High stakes and low stakes plots
High and low income characters
High rises and single story homes

6. 2 Weeks: Two books featuring complementary colors
Examples of Complementary Color Combinations

In the traditional red, yellow, blue color wheel, the complementary color combinations are as follows:

red and green
yellow and purple
blue and orange
red-orange and blue-green
yellow-orange and blue-violet
yellow-green and red-violet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compl...

So, for example, one book red cover, one book green cover. Or for BIO challenge, red book with green accents, then a green book with red accents.

7. 2 Weeks: Two books with a connection from different genres
Possible examples:
connection ""octopus"" Remarkably Bright Creatures (fiction) and The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (non-fiction)
connection ""apple on cover"" Apples Never Fall (mystery/thriller) and Twilight (YA)
connection ""set in London"" Wolf Hall (historical fiction) The Flatshare (romance)
connection ""same title"" Joyland (horror) Joyland (fiction/graphic novel)

possible genre pairings:
fiction and non-fiction
contemporary and historical fiction
classic and retelling
thriller and romance
science and memoir

Everyone gets to choose what their connection is and genres

9. 2 Weeks: One book that asks a question and one book that offers a solution
This may refer to the title or the theme

11. 3 Weeks: A book relating to "up", A book relating to "down", & A book relating to "sideways"
You could look for the words in the title, or it may be part of the plot:
Up: climbing a mountain, flying into space, moving up in society, heaven, treetops, high-rise buildings
Down: going underground, plot taking place underwater, in a cave or a subterrean world, graves and graveyards, having bad luck, being sad
Sideways: something going sideways (wrong, out of control), directions in the title (east, west, north etc or left/right), something going an unexpected way, a parallel universe – plotline, a profile picture on the cover

12. 2 Weeks: Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles
Example pairs of words:
Before / after
Light / dark
Everything/ nothing
Come / go
Summer / winter
Wet / dry

13. 2 Weeks: A book that matches the season/month that you read it during, and a book that is opposite the season/month that you read it in
Examples:
Read a holiday romance in Dec. and then one in July.
Read a book that is about Black history for Feb. and then one in Aug. (6 months later)
Read a 'beach read' during the summer, then read a book about people trapped by a blizzard.
Read a book about sharks for shark week, then read about birds

14. 2 Weeks: A book that is short (less than 250 pages) & A book that is long (greater than 450 pages)
Reason: One report said that typical novels are 250-450 pages long.
Although for these prompts both fiction and non-fiction would count, in fact, you could do one of each!

Pros:
• Sometimes I worry about a longer book in case it affect my ability to finish the challenge. But by balancing it with a shorter book this would not be a problem
• For anyone who tracks total pages read in a year, this would balance out the same as two average length books as well

15. 2 weeks: Lost and found: One book featuring themes of loss and another "found"
for example - lost love, death, grief, lost fortunes
or - found family, finding identity, reunited characters (second chance romances) etc

It's now time to get ready to vote for our next set of prompts! The thread will be open for at least 24 hours before the poll gets posted. This is a good opportunity to ask any question you may have regarding the prompts, do some research, or ask for recommendations.

Voting will open in the morning of Saturday, July 20 and results will be posted in the morning of Wednesday, July 24 (CST time).

How it works:
- When the voting opens, follow the link to the mini-poll that will be added at the end of this post
- You have a total of 8 votes this poll to spread across your favorite and least favorite prompts (you can also use less than 8 votes)
- You can find examples of acceptable voting practices on the Introduction thread.
- The prompts with the more favorable votes (comparing top votes to bottom votes, and looking at the overall number of votes it received) will be added to the final list

We are asking people to include their Goodreads profile address when they vote. To find this, just go to your own profile and then copy the URL/web address. If for some reason you can't link to your Goodreads profile, please post your full Goodreads name with enough identifiable information that we'll be able to access your profile.

Poll Prompts:
1. 2 Weeks: A book related to a beginning and a book related to an end
2. 3 Weeks: A book relating to Blood, A book relating to Sweat, and A book relating to Tears
3. 2 Weeks: Two books with sequential numbers in the title
4. 4 Weeks: A book connected to Northeast, A book connected to Southeast, A book connected to Northwest, & a book connected to Southwest
5. 2 Weeks: Two books related to high and low
6. 2 Weeks: Two books featuring complementary colors
7. 2 Weeks: Two books with a connection from different genres
8. 3 Weeks: Three books by authors from 3 different European countries
9. 2 Weeks: One book that asks a question and one book that offers a solution
10. 3 weeks: Three books by authors from three different continents
11. 3 Weeks: A book relating to "up", A book relating to "down", & A book relating to "sideways"
12. 2 Weeks: Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles
13. 2 Weeks: A book that matches the season/month that you read it during, and a book that is opposite the season/month that you read it in
14. 2 Weeks: A book that is short (less than 250 pages) & A book that is long (greater than 450 pages)
15. 2 weeks: Lost and found: One book featuring themes of loss and another "found"

Feel free to discuss the prompts below, but please remember to be respectful to the other group members.

As a reminder, we will be limiting the amount of weeks that will make it to the top of the Multiweek Poll to 6 weeks maximum. You will have the normal amount of votes to cast, but only the top 2-3 will get in based on how many weeks they are.

VOTE HERE: https://forms.gle/XF5gUiWKBCv5wYPT6

Nadine, you're right. I was confusing 3 European countries and 3 continents.

Lost and found is our last prompt! We are closed!

If someone else wants to word it in a way that I can add it to the list, that would be helpful!

3 spots remaining

Mandy, can you please submit that in the way you'd like it formatted?

Sorry, I missed one. 4 spots remaining!

5 spots remaining

Nadine that one was seconded already. Feel free to suggest or second something else!

Oops sorry I must have missed it Tracy!

Done! Still have 9 spots remaining!

Bec wrote: "Emily wrote: "Three books related to Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Book 1
Three books related to Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Book 2
Three books related to Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Book 3"

So you would nee..."

Correct... so you could do three books about tears and none about blood or sweat, in this case. Which is fine, but I wanted to point it out in case that wasn't the intention.

Even if the description lays it out like that, I'm looking only at the wording of the suggestion, as that is what conveys the intent to the person taking the poll.

I will reformat!

9 spots remaining!