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Yay, I voted for both the winners and I'm going to have a great time picking out far too many books for We Didn't Start the Fire.I voted for two of the close calls but downvoted the other.
I almost want to twist the We Didn't Start the Fire to "Ryan Started the Fire" from The Office and read one of BJ Novak's books! That being said, I love that song and can't wait to find something related to it.
Well that’s interesting. I upvoted the top 2 but I also upvoted the bottom 2 and 1 of the close calls.
I voted NO for a winner and YES for a loser, so I’m really batting 1000 this year.
I voted for the top 2. All my other top and bottom votes ended up lost in the middle.
Is the multi-poll results also going to be posted?
If anyone was really hoping the Beatles prompt would go through, you can still use whatever you had planned for that for the Billy Joel prompt (#86 British Beatlemania).I'm tempted to do a whole side challenge of just books relating to the Billy Joel prompt. So many options!
Well, I am happy with the winners, as I up-voted both of them. I am disappointed that we didn't get more winners this week, though. I had 7 up-votes, and actually quite a few more I wanted to vote for, as well. My one down-vote isn't anywhere in the results, so I'm hoping it doesn't come up again in the future. Oh, well. Off to round 10!
Even though I had 7 upvotes, I voted for none of the winners. I dare say I will find something interesting for them, but I doubt the books I find will be on my already too big TBR, that I try to narrow down. That is the reason I didn't vote for them in the first place. I hope my local library have some good options for me...
Jillian wrote: "Is the multi-poll results also going to be posted?"If you're asking about the main results, they were posted here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
If you're talking about the other poll we set up regarding the future of multi-prompts (here), we're going to mention it in the next suggestion thread.
Sophie, I can see where my question was confusing. I was asking in regards to the future multi-prompts poll. It seems like there is a clear winner so I was seeing when the results would be posted too.
Jillian wrote: "Sophie, I can see where my question was confusing. I was asking in regards to the future multi-prompts poll. It seems like there is a clear winner so I was seeing when the results would be posted too."Jillian wrote: "Is the multi-poll results also going to be posted?"
If you click on the link to the multiprompt poll, you can see the most currently standings. Unless a lot of people reconsider their votes, we will be having more multi-prompts in future polls. :(
°~Amy~° wrote: "Jillian wrote: "Sophie, I can see where my question was confusing. I was asking in regards to the future multi-prompts poll. It seems like there is a clear winner so I was seeing when the results w..."Amy, I agree about being able to view the poll but the multi-week has been so confusing to begin with that I just wanted to know when results would be posted for everyone.
The KIS/BIO list has been updatedVoting wise I was all over the place this week. Of my three upvotes, one ended up in the top (ABE), one ended up in the bottom (Beatles) and one was a close-call (Earth Day).
Of my 5 downvotes, one was a top and none of the others showed up anywhere on the final list.
Looking forward to the next suggestion round
The results of the multi week poll question were added to message 1 on this thread. Multi week prompts will be allowed to be submitted in future polls.
dalex wrote: "I'm tempted to do a whole side challenge of just books relating to the Billy Joel prompt. So many options!"I was thinking that exact same thing!!
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I'm really excited about the two that made it in... they were really the only two I wanted in, so I'm happy. These will be two fun ones to research.
I voted for one (or both... I'd have to check my notes) of the winners, 2 of the close calls, and one of the bottoms. Interesting results. I'm particularly excited about the Abe list. So many authors I need to read.I like both of the winners, but I'm bummed that we still have no genre prompts. I hope we get some soon.
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The Earth Day prompt was in my upvotes so in a poll or two I might resubmit it.
Disappointing week for me. I didn't really care for either of the two winners and didn't vote for either of them. I have no connection at all to the Billy Joel song, and even after listening to it when it was suggested, I can't say I'm really a fan. The Abe list was okay, but I strongly preferred many of the other lists mentioned up until now. I have options I can work with for both, but I was hoping for something different. I think I also found it a bit disappointing because I predicted these would both be winners pretty much right away based on the discussion. Even though we've seen that the discussions don't always match up with the actual results, these both seemed so overwhelmingly loved that it really wasn't a surprise to see them here. I just thought we might get one or two others with them.
Katie wrote: "dalex wrote: "I'm tempted to do a whole side challenge of just books relating to the Billy Joel prompt. So many options!"I was thinking that exact same thing!!"
I am TOTALLY doing the same thing! :-D
I am really curious to see what people decide to read for the Billy Joel song prompt! Thank you Dalex for the thread identifying the different categories and topics. That’s extremely helpful!
When the Billy Joel prompt was suggested, I immediately disliked the idea, because I wasn't really familiar with the song, but after looking at the link posted listing all the things mentioned in the song, I ended up voting for it. I didn't vote either way for the Abe list but I'm sure it won't be hard to find a book on my tbr for that. Disappointed that Earth Day and 2020 didn't make it through though.
Ist lot of voting where I don't like any of the chosen ones. Oh well I guess that's why it is a "challenge".
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I'm interested to see how allowing multi-week prompts in regular polls will play out. I think that this option (not allowing BB&B to be added, but allowing for it and others to be submitted in regular polls) was the most fair, although I did vote for adding BB&B and not allowing any others to be added. In the past, multi-week prompts haven't done well in regular polls, especially if they were longer than 2 weeks, but I guess we will see how it plays out, since there were so many good multi-week prompts suggested. I'd vote for another one in the list.
Top 2:
- A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We didn't Start the Fire"
- A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Bottom:
- A book about or inspired by The Beatles
- A mashup genre book
Close Calls:
- A book written by an author who passed away in the last five years
- A book related to Earth Day
- A book published in 2020
Results are calculated by subtracting the number of voters who put a prompt in their bottom from those who put a prompt in their top (top - bottom). The totals are then compared to find the top result(s).
Regarding multi week prompts: The group has voted to allow multi-week prompts in future polls. The Beauty, Brains & Brawn prompt will not be added to the list, but may be resubmitted like any other previously submitted prompt (except those that were in the bottom on a poll).
The next round of suggestions will open tomorrow, Thursday, August 15 at 9:00am EDT.