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I'll second Megan's complimentary colorsUpdated through message 21!
updated through message 17!
To Clarify:Prompts formatted like "Three books related to Blood, Sweat, and Tears" will be formatted as such on the final list:
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
Prompts formatted like "4 Weeks: A book connected to Northeast, A book connected to Southeast, A book connected to Northwest, & a book connected to Southwest" will be formatted as such on the final list:
A book connected to Northeast
A book connected to Southeast
A book connected to Northwest
A book connected to Southwest
Please see the formatting example in the first post. If your suggestion does not fit this format, I will reformat it to fit.
It's time for our next round of suggestions!Just a reminder that you can find a full list of prompts already on the 2024 list in the third post on this thread.
How Suggestions Work:
- The topics for the 2024 reading challenge list will be determined by a series of mini-polls, the number of which depends on the number of prompts winning in each mini-polls
- Suggestions for each poll will be opened until 15 suggestions are received and “seconded”.
- The voting thread will open the day after suggestions go live. You can find the schedule here.
Rules:
- Each member can only suggest OR second one prompt
- Suggestions close after 15 total seconded prompts
When suggesting and seconding, feel free to provide examples and descriptions that may help other members understand the prompt better. These descriptions and examples will be copied over to the voting thread for further discussion.
As always, please express any and all feedback (respectfully, of course), either here or in The Wild Discussion.
A REMINDER: This week is our ONE multi-week poll! This is the only week you will be allowed to submit prompts that span multiple weeks, and those are the only types of prompts that should be submitted.
Please submit your suggestions in the following format:
2 Weeks: First prompt and second prompt
3 Weeks: Prompt that lists three things
etc.
To Clarify:
Prompts formatted like "Three books related to Blood, Sweat, and Tears" will be formatted as such on the final list:
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
Prompts formatted like "4 Weeks: A book connected to Northeast, A book connected to Southeast, A book connected to Northwest, & a book connected to Southwest" will be formatted as such on the final list:
A book connected to Northeast
A book connected to Southeast
A book connected to Northwest
A book connected to Southwest
Moving on to Voting:
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"
To Be Seconded:
- 2 Weeks: One book with a theme of "forget" or forget in the title & One book with a theme of "remember" or remember in the title
- 3 Weeks: Three books from different time periods
- 2 Weeks: Two books by authors with the same name
- 3 Weeks: Three books with titles which combined make up a sentence or poem
Update: Suggestions for our Multi-Week Poll will open around 8 am CDT on Friday, July 19! This is a time change from what was previously mentioned.
Just a head's up, for suggestions tomorrow, I will be opening it around 8 am, NOT 3 pm like I mentioned. My day changed a bit so I will need to adjust!
Just a head's up, for suggestions tomorrow, I will be opening it around 8 am, NOT 3 pm like I mentioned. My day changed a bit so I will need to adjust!
I mean, over 100 people voted for the mystery/true crime prompt so it definitely had its supporters!
Oops thanks. It's fixed.
Thanks y'all. It's minor oral surgery, but early in the morning and we could be tied up for a while so I didn't want y'all waiting on the results when they were so clear already!I'm really excited for the multiweek poll on Friday!
POLL 3BOTTOM
A book about the “civil rights” or “human rights” of a group with which you are less familiar
CLOSE CALL
A book whose cover, title, or author’s name relates to SANDWICHES
A book with a title that is only a name or nickname
POLARIZING
A book involving a fork in the road or a life changing decision
A book featuring a circus, amusement park, or fair
NO DESIGNATION
A book with royalty
A book by a Generation Y (Millennial) writer
A book related to something you loved, learned about, or longed for early in your life
A book with an alliterative title
A book with a city skyline on the cover
A book with an ensemble cast
A book shelved as literary fiction
A book with a reflection on the cover
Results are posted for Poll 3!https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The next round of suggestions will be our Multi-Week Poll (see above for more information), and will open around 3 pm CDT on Friday, July 19.
(Called the results a few hours before it became Thursday as my husband is having surgery early tomorrow morning and the results were pretty clear!)
Happy results day!Top:
A book that fits a prompt from the 2016 ATY list
A mystery or true crime book
Bottom:
A book about the “civil rights” or “human rights” of a group with which you are less familiar
Close Call:
A book whose cover, title, or author’s name relates to SANDWICHES
A book with a title that is only a name or nickname
Polarizing:
A book involving a fork in the road or a life changing decision
A book featuring a circus, amusement park, or fair
The next round of suggestions will open at 8 am CDT on Friday, July 19.
I would say that in all my years of watching the poll numbers, multi-week is the poll that gets the most amount of downvotes only submissions, or 1 or 2 up only. Makes sense - if you know the number of prompts are limited to just 6 total weeks, you might be more strategic with how you vote.I will say, as I've been looking at previous lists, we are a lot less likely to have a 4 week prompt voted in than we were in the past.
You can add books to the lists if it fits! No need to wait until you've read it (unless you aren't sure if it fits or not until after you've read it lol).The spreadsheet is there for people to track what they've already crossed off for the challenge (or to plan for next year), or you can do like Denise mentioned and start a thread in our 2024 Plans folder.
There's no one tracking your challenge but you, though we do have a completion thread where you can post once you're finished so we can all celebrate with you! (Even if you completed half of the challenge -- we will celebrate you meeting whatever goal you set for yourself.)
Welcome Liz!
