Alicia’s Comments (group member since Dec 25, 2019)

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

Charlsa, didn’t see your comment. Completely agree that you should keep it as is

I think more accurate to the intention of the prompt would be “a book with a title that starts with a preposition”.

Also, I know we say people don’t understand the prompt so they don’t vote, but I don’t think this is necessarily true and in a way infantizes (sp??) people. If a prompt sounds interesting to people, they’ll look it up or read about the suggestions or discussions. If it doesn’t, they won’t. I’m active in posting and read the discussions, but if something doesn’t interest me, rarely are explanations and posts about the different ways it can be interpreted going to sway me. But then there are others that it does help. We all go ‘about this process’ (prepositional phrase lol) differently.

I don’t think we need to create new things based on something that is ultimately a guess and a narrative that hasn’t been proven.

Submit the prompts you like and try to make it as clear and concise as possible. Then hope for the best. We’ll get a great list regardless.

We had to learn a song in school about prepositions but that was so long ago and YouTube didn’t exist. But this is the closest I found.

https://youtu.be/IKdMJYptNRI

Ooh I love that idea Charlsa

City of Girls definitely fits musical. Set in Manhattan (setting for many musicals) and sounds like the setting is very theater/Broadway-esque

Another push for musical, for those interested in civil rights prompt, that could pair well with the musical Hairspray

I actually feel like we have more “creative” prompts this early on than we’ve ever had. And already more than we have on the whole list for 2023.

I really like how the list is turning out and I like trying to find creative ways to interpret prompts. For example, maybe for the multi week land, sea and air you also connect them based on Eurovision countries. For chilling atmosphere, you can read a book about ice cream!

I’m not a supreme vet, but after about 4 years, the challenge is really what you make it. And once the new year hits, I never think oh I don’t like the final list. I’m just excited to be doing the challenge.

Some Examples for related to musical

Camelot - anything with King Arthur (highly recommend this series Legendborn)
My Fair Lady - set in London
Rent - set in New York
Six - connected to Henry VIII
Hamilton - related to American revolution
Sound of Music - WWII or music
Mama Mia - a book with a mom character
Tina - domestic thriller
Sister Act or Book of Mormon - related to religion or nuns (for those of us that remember the nuns prompt)
Grease - set in the 50s
Disney - books related to disney song/musical

Also, here are some lists of popular musicals around the world
- Tony Best Musical Nominees and Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Aw...
- Brazil: https://www.hercampus.com/school/casp...
- Australia: https://beat.com.au/from-tim-michin-t...
- West End/London: https://www.westendtheatre.com/107492...



Robin, you can copy and paste all the info from this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o...

Thanks Robin! If you give me ten minutes, I’m working on examples that can be pasted in the voting thread

A book related to a musical

I’m happy for the prompts that made it in. I used all downvotes this round so glad those didn’t make it in.

Sad about Going for Gold. I think it was just too soon to have it again and I think 3rd times the curse here.

NancyJ wrote: "Robin wrote: "Bec wrote: "Robin wrote: "I need a get away so I'm suggesting

~~ A book related to a Las Vegas hotel...."

Here's a few:
Luxor - Egyptian theme, pyramids
Flamingo - Florida, tropic..."

Another really good King Arthur one is Legendborn. It's a series and amazing!

Because I'm still singing the Six: Musical songs in my head daily....

what do people think about "a book related to a musical"

It could be a book that a has a musical in it, or related to a musical.

Every Tony Award Best Musical winner: https://deadline.com/gallery/best-ton...

Could also include Disney (for fans of that prompt) or musical movies (my research turned up 8-Mile, which I think Eminem would enjoy knowing it's being dubbed a musical).

@robin I think there’s also a difference between ratings and reviews. A lot of people rate, but usually there are less reviews

Less than 100 ratings is incredibly limiting. The only books I have on my TBR with less than 100 ratings are 8 books that haven’t been published yet. I have more books that haven’t been published and have more than 100 ratings than with less.

The problem with this is also that people rate books just because they like or dislike the author not because they’ve even received an ARC. George R R Martin’s 6th book which hasn’t even been finished has 11,000 ratings.

I've been really sitting on these, and I have 7 I really don't want to see on the list, but then I do really like some of the others:

- Going for Gold: I like books about athletes and like the broader interpretation but still connected to Olympics next year
- Sailor Moon: although I do see how now people can think it's too broad, but I'd probably also try to read manga or a book set in Japan
- Reading Title: It's like a hidden book about books prompt, which I love

I also wouldn't mind independent bookseller, because I would read off of Tookie's list from The Sentence

at this point it's just whether my enjoyment of those prompts outweighs my dread of the others.

Won not one 🤦🏽‍♀️ stupid app

But isn’t the prompt about a book turned movie that one an Oscar. Not any Oscar film? Now I’m confused.

I wouldn’t count an original screenplay as a book that was the basis of a movie.

Robin, I think that list is just all the winners in general. Not winners based off of a book.

At least I’m fairly certain Titanic is based off of the actual event 😉

Another Alicia's June, July and August Raffle Entries. You can call me Alicia L

June
1. Father's Day:
c. Author's initials can be found in PATERNITY = The Measure completed on July 3 --- Author name Nikki Erlick

2. Estival Solstice:
c. Book is set in the Northern Hemisphere = The Diviners completed on June 4 -- set in NYC

3. Hibernal Solstice:
a. Book that is at least 400 pages long = Manslaughter Park completed on July 10 --- 416 pages

4. Pride Month:
a. Written by an author who identifies as LGBTQIA+ = Cemetery Boys completed on July 24 -- identifies as queer and trans

July
1.Let's Play:

a. First letter of the book's title is in HORSE AROUND = All the Sinners Bleed completed on June 28 --- the letter A

2. Travel Season:
b. A book with a map = Fourth Wing completed on July 21

3. Halfway there!
a. Book with an even number of pages = The Lady of the Rivers completed on August 11 --- 502 pages

4. Turn Up the Radio:
b. Set in the 19th century = The Late Mrs. Willoughby completed on June 11

August
1. Book Lovers Day:
c. First letter of the book's title appears in BIBLIOMANIA = Babel: An Arcane History completed on August 4 --- letter is B

2. Perseid Meteor Shower:
c. Inspired by or retelling myths = Clytemnestra completed on July 27 --- Greek mythology

3. Make Waves:
c. A sea creature is on the cover = The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi completed on July 7 --- octopus

4. Go Camping:
a. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies = Love, Theoretically completed on July 13 --- birds & bees = sex = romance (but there was also sex in the book lol)

Haha what does it say about me that my first thought is “ooooh deadly sins” and “meh virtues” lol