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I nominate cyber crimes
Archeology or similar (maybe there's a better term for this)
As an archaeologist I’d have to agree with Jamie on this one and suggest something involving archaeology😃 Archaeological thriller or similar. Ben
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Added. You may have to define this better so when the month comes around, I'll know how to explain it. Thanks!!
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Off-Earth/Another Planet/Space Setting Action
We have two more slots!
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Lisa P wrote: "I suggest 'Survival'...survival from anything that may want to kill you (person, disease, natural disaster, creature, alien, etc.)"I'd second this one from Lisa too! I'd envisage something akin to Jaws (Peter Benchley). Appreciate we're on themes and not specific titles here, but besides the thrills, there's actually some serious depth to that particular novel if anyone's yet to read it - it's an allegory for sure. The Martian (Andy Weir) is also a great example of a survival story. Ben
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If it were ok with you I'd nominate 'Kick-ass heroine' as alternate and won't nominate another topic in the next cycle - though I understand if you want to stick to the one theme per person rule and won't accept it.
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Since we don't have any other nominations, we'll take it! Thanks!
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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 second 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 Two Suggestions:
1. Fantasy: January 2021
2. Cyber Crimes: February 2021
3. Domestic Thriller: March and April 2021
4. Archaeology: May 2021
5. Off-Earth/Another Planet/Space Setting Action: June 2021
6. Survival: July 2021
7. (alternate) Kickass Heroine: August 2021
Reminder: This cycle will close December 21st, so members do have time to get one more in.
**See Group Theme Selections General Questions and Comments Thread to post general questions. The thread is closed to further nominations as of January 4th, 2021.**