Group Read Selection Cycle One (Closed June 1, 2020)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Group Read Selection Cycle One

We're going to have a selection pool of group read themes that you suggest and we cycle through every six months.

This is the first cycle.

*You can add your suggestion to the list, and/or if you really like a suggested theme, feel free to second it.
*We're not going to vote on these unless I get plenty of feedback that several readers don't want/like this process and want to go back to the old way of doing things.
*I can use the themes in order until we run out, and we'll start over again with a new pool.

Some general guidelines:
1. We will take six group themes and one alternate for each cycle. The alternate is kind of a wild card/extra just in case. If it's not used, it will go at the top of the list for the next cycle.
2. The themes need to be distinctive from each other. As much as possible, avoid extremely general themes. I'm going to suggest we don't pick a theme that is limited to one specific authors' books.
3. One suggestion per member per cycle (a cycle is six months)
4. If your suggestion is not straightforward, I will ask for clarification and narrowing down. If you aren't able to do so, I will have to table the suggestion until it's clear enough for others to understand/be able to generate book choices to vote for.
5. For some reason, if we don't have seven, I will give members about a month to make a sixth and seventh suggestion and then I will close the cycle and we will just go through what we have.
6. If we get more than seven suggestions (and each one has been posted by a separate member) before the cycle closes, I'll add it to the new/next cycle.
7. The last two months before the end of the cycle, I will open up a new suggestion list to accumulate new themes.
8. We will still vote on the books as usual.

Cycle One Suggestions:

1. Chockful Action/Adventure Novels (Action-Packed)
2. Historical Action Adventure
3. Superhero Fiction
4. Assassins
5. LGBT Characters/Authors
6. Military/Spec Ops/Black Ops/PMC
7. (alternate) Fantasy

* I am waiting for Jamie and Agniezska to pick their favorite theme off their list and we two one more from another two people and we'll close the cycle.--Done! (5/22/20)


Reminder: This cycle will close June 15th, so members do have time to get one more in.

**See Group Theme Selections General Questions and Comments Thread to post general questions. I will close this thread on June 15th, so it will not be open to post additional comments or questions.**

[Jenny]

How about a Sigma Force Theme?

[Magiccats]

Perhaps an Assassins Theme?

[Agnieszka]

If I have to decide on one I'll go this time with:
military/PMC/special forces/Black-Ops & similar

[Jamie]

I'm sorry I didn't see your comment! I'll go with LGBT characters and/or authors.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Jen_Ken wrote: "How about a Sigma Force Theme?"

Thanks for the suggestion, but let's try to make a suggestion that is not limited to one author.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

So we only need one more suggestion and we'll be good for the next seven months! :)

[Magiccats]

Sci Fi action

[Alejandro]

Chockful Action/Adventure Novels (Action-Packed)
Assassins
and Military/Spec Ops/Black Ops/PMC
all sound good to me

I might add a Fantasy action to the choices

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Since Magiccats already suggested Assassin, I'll add Fantasy as our Alternate.

Thanks everyone.

This cycle is officially closed!