[2022] Poll 2 Voting

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

It's now time to get ready to vote for our next set of prompts! This thread will be open for around 24 hours before the poll gets posted. This is a good opportunity to ask any question you may have regarding the prompts, do some research, or ask for recommendations.

Voting will open in the morning of Thursday, July 8 and results will be posted in the morning of Monday, July 12.

How it works:
- When the voting opens, follow the link to the mini-poll that will be added at the end of this post
- You have a total of 8 votes this poll to spread across your favorite and least favorite prompts (you can also use less than 8 votes) - You can find examples of acceptable voting practices on the Introduction thread.
- The prompts with the more favorable votes (comparing top votes to bottom votes, and looking at the overall number of votes it received) will be added to the final list (usually between 2 and 5 depending on how the votes are spread)

As a reminder: You have a total of 8 votes to use among your top and bottom votes. The mods have access to each individual vote, so we can see if you use more than 8 votes. If you use more than 8 votes in the poll, your vote will have to be deleted, so please make sure to follow the directions so your voice can be heard.

Possible Prompts:
1. A book with a time-related word in the title
2. A book related to a famous pair
3. A book with someone's back on the cover
4. A book with a missing person
5. A book with an arthropod on the cover
6. A book related to a Taylor Swift song or album
7. A book related to the 22nd chemical element Titanium
8. A book with a full name in the title
9. A book set in Eastern Europe
10. A book published at least 10 years ago
11. A book published the month of your birthday
12. A book set in the Arab world
13. A prompt related to the 2022 Year of the Tiger
14. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
15. A book relating to Catch-22

Feel free to discuss the prompts below, but please remember to be respectful to the other group members.

VOTE HERE: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/5QV5QL/

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

FROM THE SUGGESTIONS THREAD

1. A book with a time-related word in the title
ex. day, year, century, week etc

2. A book related to a famous pair
Romeo & Juliet; Rocky and Bullwinkle; Antony and Cleopatra; peanut butter and jelly; Bert and Ernie; left and right; yin and yang; hot and cold; yes and no

Historical fiction about famous people (like Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl), books with black and white covers, books with pairs in the title like Yes No Maybe So

You can read a book that created a famous pairing like Romeo & Juliet, Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, The Great Gatsby. You can read a book with a pair in the title like East, West, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. You could read A Tale of Two Cities. You could read The Tao of Pooh for the concept of yin and yang.

You could literally read "Romeo and Juliet". Some books that come to mind for me are:
Beatrice and Benedick by Marina Fiorato (Beatrice and Benedick from Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing")
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley (Beauty and the Beast)
Robin and Marian by Stephanie Fowers (Robin Hood and Maid Marian)
Bud & Lou: The Abbott & Costello Story by Bob Thomas ( Famous Comedy Duo: Abbot and Costello).
Strange Case of Dr. Jekell & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Good and Evil)

3. A book with someone's back on the cover


4. A book with a missing person
Not just for mysteries, many genres use a missing person as a plot device or they could follow the missing person themselves. The Wayward Children books about children who are missing while they are in their portal worlds for instance. Maybe it’s a character you feel is missing from the story.

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.novelsuspects.com/book-li...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
https://bookriot.com/20-favorite-miss...
https://electricliterature.com/7-unco...

5. A book with an arthropod on the cover
Arthropods are the most numerous and diverse group of animals, and include:
Insects (too many kinds to list)
Crustaceans (lobster, shrimp, crayfish, crab, barnacle, etc.)
Myriapoda (centipede, millipede)
Arachnids (spider, scorpion, tick, mite)
Trilobites (extinct, but commonly found as fossils)

6. A book related to a Taylor Swift song or album
In honour of her song '22', read a book related to a Taylor Swift song or album

Some examples:
Folklore - Read a book that features folklore or mythology
Welcome to New York or Coney Island - Read a book set in Coney Island or New York
Dancing WIth Our Hands Ties - Read a book featuring dance or dancers
Superman - Read a book featuring superhero
Clean - Read a book about addiction recovery
Red - Read a book a red cover or will make you 'see red' (get angry)
Out of the Woods - Read a book featuring the woods
New Year's Day - Read a book set during New Years
Never Grow Up - Read a Peter Pan retelling
Love Story - Read a Romeo & Juliet retelling
London Boy - Read a book set in London or written by a male English author
This Love, The Way I Loved You or You Are in Love - Read a romance
Willow - Read a book with a tree on the cover
White Horse - Read a book featuring horses or with a white cover
Cowboy Like Me - Read a western or a book featuring a cowboy
Beautiful Ghosts - Read a paranormal or supernatural book featuring ghosts
Cardigan - Read a book featuring a librarian
August - Read a book published in August
Better Than Revenge - Read a revenge story
Today Was a Fairytale - Read a fairytale retelling
Teardrops on My Guitar - Read a sad book

7. A book related to the 22nd chemical element Titanium
"It could be (but not limited to):
• Set in Cornwall (where it was discovered)
• Related to Greek mythology (named after the Titans)
• By or about a clergyman (discovered by a clergyman)
• Published in the 18th century (discovered in 1791)
• Author or title initials TI
• Have the letters SIA in the title or authors name
• About chemistry
• Related to one of it's uses (paint, golf clubs, planes, ships, wheelchairs etc.)"

10. A book published at least 10 years ago
Whether you want to go for something really old and get a classic, or just want to dig through a favorite author's backlog, or just need to finally get around to that book you keep meaning to pick up, it just needs to be at least 10 years old.

12. A book set in the Arab world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world

13. A prompt related to the 2022 Year of the Tiger
This can include books:
- related to cats
- related to water, as this is the 2022 related element for the tiger (Water Tiger)
- water or tiger on the cover
- book published in a Tiger year: 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022
- related to personality/characteristics of 2022 tigers: Confident, curious, high learning potential; possibly with high self-esteem.
- authors born in the Year of the Tiger (Beatrix Potter, Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee)
- other famous people born in the Year of the Tiger (the Queen, Marilyn Monroe, Usain Bolt (Olympics), Robert Pattison (Twilight)) https://www.onthisday.com/people/chin...

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intr...

14. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
Just the title (bring-it-on option):
The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood uses A, E, I, O, and U in the title alone
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman uses A, E, I, O, and U in the title alone
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield uses A, E, I, O, and U in the title alone
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee uses A, E, I, O, and U in the title alone

Just the author's name (bring-it-on option):
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour uses A, E, I, O, and U in the author's name alone
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory uses A, E, I, O, and U in the author's name alone
Our House by Louise Candlish uses A, E, I, O, and U in the author's name alone

Title/author name combination (keep-it-simple option):
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens uses A, E, and I in the title, and O and U in the author's name
The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin uses E in the title and A, I, O and U in the author's name

15. A book relating to Catch-22
You could obviously read Catch-22 itself, but there are a lot of other possibilities like:
-A book with any sort of Catch 22 or paradoxical situation
-A book set in WWII
-A satire
-A book with multiple POVs
-A book with a soldier or a captain as the main character
-A book that doesn't follow a linear timeline
-A book set in Italy

[Thomas]

I have three books I badly want so to get them I am upvoting what they fit:
Taylor Swift
Missing Person
10 years old
The only book I intend to downvote is published month you were born becuase that disadvantages people like me who were born in months where fewer books are published.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

The month you were born could be any year of that month. For example, I was born in April, so I could read a book published in April of 2021, or April of 1989, or April of 1920... if that helps you.

[Steve]

Thomas wrote: "I have three books I badly want so to get them I am upvoting what they fit:
Taylor Swift
Missing Person
10 years old
The only book I intend to downvote is published month you were born becuase ..."

I’m not aware of the publishing “calendar.” What months have more books than others? Any stats/percents that show the breakdowns by month?

[Deborah]

For the arthropod prompt...would a mechanical/robotic spider count?

[Nancy]

I feel like there are definitely months that are more popular than others, June has a ton of books published to get the summer books out there, but August has not as many.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

It's funny because Book of the Month Club has made me more aware of good publishing months vs. not good ones. January has had some of my favorite books (probably to get on those most anticipated lists), but July and October are usually slow slow for me.

[Kelly Sj]

Deborah wrote: "For the arthropod prompt...would a mechanical/robotic spider count?"

Absolutely!

[Jillian]

I’m going to have to think on these to narrow down my choices. From my initial glance, I’d like to up or down vote most of the prompts.

[Beth]

I would agree there are some months that have fewer new releases. I was searching through my allocated ATY books to find one published in November for the NATO challenge and couldn't find any out of the 52. A lot of them seemed to be published in the spring/summer months.

[Kat]

So many good prompts again. It will be interesting to see how it ends up.

I don’t normally pay attention to publication months. I'm trying to find one for the summer challenge and everything I'm reading at the moment is published in months I don't need.

I know September 2020 was a bumper month as there were so many that delayed publication.

[Thomas]

Steve wrote: "Thomas wrote: "I have three books I badly want so to get them I am upvoting what they fit:
Taylor Swift
Missing Person
10 years old
The only book I intend to downvote is published month you wer..."
I don't have exact stats. But genrally the summer months and Chrsitmas time are prefferred

[Kelly Sj]

I love "famous pair" and "Catch-22"! And "arthropod," since I suggested it.

I would like the Taylor Swift idea better if it was limited to just the song. As it is now, a person could read pretty much anything (expanding to additional songs or albums could be a KIS option to a more limited version of the prompt).

If "all five vowels" makes it, I will save The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai for next year :)

[Deborah]

I like the Taylor Swift prompt there is a lot you could do with it. I have the perfect book for it:

Hope Beyond the Tears: A Contemporary Western Romance ( Would fit Cowboy Like Me, White Horse, and Love Story.)

I also think I would upvote the titanium prompt. Maybe a book with a strong character either physically or mentally (Titanium is know to be strong and resilient).

The Vowels prompt I think will be a challenge, but I still think it would be a fun one to try. Here are some books from an initial scan of my TBR list.

Title
To Fashion a Dragon: The Prequel to the Series The Legend of Hooper's Dragons by Gary Darby
Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes by Gordon B. Hinckley
Courting Miss Lancaster by Sarah M. Eden
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

[Beth]

I think I will end up voting for:
- both Arab World & Eastern Europe (I enjoy location-based prompts)
- time-related word (I have a few good options for this one)
- all 5 vowels (fun scavenger hunt)
- published 10+ yrs ago (I have a lot of backlist books that I never seem to prioritise)

I'm kind of torn on the Taylor Swift one... I do like her music but I'm not a big fan of 'related to' kinds of prompts like this one.

[Nadine in NY]

If it helps anyone decide, in 2020 Popsugar had the category "book published in your birthday month" and Listopias were created for each month. These won't include any 2021 publications, of course, but it will help you get an idea.

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

That's an excellent resource, Nadine!

[Bec]

Nadine wrote: "If it helps anyone decide, in 2020 Popsugar had the category "book published in your birthday month" and Listopias were created for each month. These won't include any 2021 publications, of course,..."

Thanks Nadine. This is really helpful!

[Rachel]

I'm actually not a huge fan of this list overall. There are only two prompts that jumped out to me as something I'd really want (missing person since that fits a lot of thrillers I want to read, and vowels because I love the challenge of it), and quite a few I really don't like.

There are a couple of others that I'm considering upvoting, but none of them really strongly feel like a "need" to me. I like the Taylor Swift prompt and I'm strongly considering voting for it, but I'm a little worried that if this one gets in, it will tank the chances of the Disney prompt since they are both along very similar lines by relating to song names, and I much prefer the Disney version. It has nothing to do with the fact that I suggested Disney originally, just that I'm much more connected to those songs than I am to Taylor's music in general.

There are also quite a few that I need to research a lot more first, like Eastern Europe, Arab world, and arthropod. It's rare for me to have so few immediate upvotes!

[Kelly Sj]

I just found this "bugs on the cover" list:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Arthropods includes more than "bugs" but it's a start for those who need some ideas before voting!

Edit: Also just found a 1970s pulp horror series featuring crabs by Guy N. Smith - I have no interest in reading them, but the covers are fun!

[Jill]

The one I immediately thought of The Girl in the Spider's Web

[Lizzy]

I’ve been meaning to suggest a bug on the cover for the last couple of years because I kept seeing books with bees or spiders on the cover. I’m glad it was finally suggested.

[Pam]

I have no idea how I will vote this week! I like the Eastern Europe setting, 5 vowels, and full name prompts. I don’t like the birthday month prompt. I’ve seen it too many times over the years. I don’t know anything about Taylor Swift so that’s a no. Arthropod - maybe since it’s unique and there are some lobster-related books I want to read. Not spiders, though.

Here’s some info on Year of the Tiger to stimulate ideas besides a Tiger on the cover or in the title. “Tigers, considered to be brave, cruel, forceful, and terrifying, are the symbol of power and lordliness in Chinese culture. In ancient times, people usually compared emperors or kings with the tigers.”

[Angie]

I was busy all day, so this is the first time I've really looked at the list. My thoughts:

A book related to a famous pair and a book with someone's back on the cover are immediate upvotes. I love the idea of famous pairs. and even though I'm not a big fan of cover prompts, I've seen quite a few really attractive covers with this design. I was actually thinking of suggesting something along these lines.

Most of these will require more research before I make a decision on voting. Some feel really broad to me. I really don't know what I'll vote.

Fun fact. I've realized that I can solve most of these by dipping into Agatha Christie's bibliography. Need a book with a spider on the cover? She's got it. Set in an Arab country? She's got it. All five vowels in the title? She's got it. She was even born in the Year of the Tiger. (Not that I want to do my whole challenge based on Agatha Christie, lol.)

[Joan]

I like these prompts. Apparently I read a lot of books about missing people because about half of that list I had read but I still have a lot to choose from.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Nadine wrote: "If it helps anyone decide, in 2020 Popsugar had the category "book published in your birthday month" and Listopias were created for each month. These won't include any 2021 publications, of course,..."

That's great! If this prompt wins, the link should definitely be with it. (This is another instance, though, where those who don't follow the discussion may downvote it because they don't know about the list and if they can't immediately think of something, they don't choose it.)

[Jillian]

I think, I have narrowed my votes to 4 up and 4 down but I’m going to wait a bit to see if I change my mind about my down votes.

I don’t love location prompts so both of them are in my pending down spots but I’ll likely read books that will work for those prompts. I don’t care for the birthday month but I have another challenge that is based on reading books based on their publication month so I will read some books that work. I recently read the sequel to Catch-22, Closing Time, and it was so awful (not that I really liked Catch-22) that it makes me want to down vote the prompt even though there are many options.

[Ellie]

The fluctuations in publishing schedules really depend on what books you like. Super Thursday (UK) is towards the end of October where all the books they think people might buy as presents come out. This means that less mid list and debut novels come out around that time. Spring and early summer are busier for commercial fiction because publishing believes people have more time to read in summer. However I compile a monthly list of new releases on my blog, and I always have 20-30ish books and that's just ones that interest me. I think genre fiction imprints have a much more spread out schedule that those chasing the general public's attention.

For those who don't like setting prompts because they read a lot of secondary world fantasy, I'd just say there are some great books based on Eastern Europe and the Arab world so you could stretch those prompts to fit them.

I guess I'm OK with all these prompts but not really sure what to vote for. I love the anthropod one, just yesterday I had an email about a book with a lobster on the cover!

[Steve]

Pairs is an obvious upvote for me since I nominated it. I like the vowels one; I like prompts where I can go through my TBR and figure out who meets criteria like that.

Taylor Swift is a no since I’m really not into her music. Arthropods is a no because nothing on my TBR relates and nothing in the suggestions interests me.

Not sure how I’ll round out the last of my votes. I have a lot on my TBR with full name so maybe that. If at least 10 years ago doesn’t make it, maybe we should suggest at least 22 in a future poll since that seems more “on theme” and is more of a challenge than 10.

[Mairéad]

I think I will upvote:
A book with a time-related word in the title,
A book related to a Taylor Swift song or album,
A book related to the 22nd chemical element Titanium,
A book with a full name in the title,
A book published at least 10 years ago,
A book relating to Catch-22,
A prompt related to the 2022 Year of the Tiger

Really hope Taylor Swift prompt gets through!! I love her so much, and I have participated in two different Taylor Swift readathons the past two years, so it will be fun to find a book to read.

I will be downvoting:
A book published the month of your birthday

I was born in December, and I struggled so much with this prompt when I participated in PopSugar in 2020 - the only December releases were classics, and I want to choose all LGBT books for this challenge in 2022 and I don't think I'll find something I'm interested in.

[Mairéad]

Jillian wrote: "I think, I have narrowed my votes to 4 up and 4 down but I’m going to wait a bit to see if I change my mind about my down votes.

I don’t love location prompts so both of them are in my pending do..."

I don't know if your voting is personally preference, but you down have to use four upvotes and four downvotes - you can spread out your eight votes however you like! I'm doing 7 upvotes and 1 downvote this poll.

[Ellie]

Steve wrote: "If at least 10 years ago doesn’t make it, maybe we should suggest at least 22 in a future poll since that seems more “on theme” and is more of a challenge than 10..."

Honestly ten years ago is challenge enough for me, most my TBR books are after 2012. Popsugar keeps making me read books from the 90s and I just have to do rereads. So I'd probably read a modern classic either way if it gets in.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'm with Ellie... my average publication year so far this year is 2017, and that's because I read The World According to Garp (1978) and Things Fall Apart (1958) that are bringing down the average. 50/54 books I've read so far this year were published 2015-2021.

That being said, I think I'm voting for that prompt specifically for this reason! My 40 Before 40 list is staring me in the face lol.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

VOTING IS OPEN: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/5QV5QL/

[Nicole]

I was going to downvote a book set in the Arab world, because it seemed like it would be too difficult to fill. I did look at a couple lists (which yes, are pretty short), and saw that I have a couple of these on my TBR, and a couple others that I looked at sounded interesting. I’m not sure that I’m going to upvote it, but I am not going to downvote it, either.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theg...

[Thomas]

I downvoted Arab world parlty becuase I really struggled to find anyhting in that area for the Egyptian prompt this year and partly because it would probaly preclude a more general world cup prompt getting in later. I also downvoted Eastern Europe as I had a horrible feeling it would lead to a rerun of the Scandanavia incident and the brithday pormpt becuase i really found ti ahrd last time I needed to do this.

[Karissa]

I loved the famous pair prompt, but didn't care for any of the book ideas listed so far so I wasn't sure if I was going to up or down vote it. Then I thought of a slight alternative way to look at it though it may not exactly be the intention. I could read a book that includes a fictional pair that are famous in the story, even if they aren't famous in real life. I definitely have books that fit in that so I decided to upvote.

[Ellie]

Emily wrote: "I'm with Ellie... my average publication year so far this year is 2017, and that's because I read The World According to Garp (1978) and Things Fall Apart (1958) that are b..."

That's better than me, my average year is... 2020! My poor TBR! I should probably vote for that one...

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I ended up only using 6 votes, which is something I do very rarely, but most of the prompts were either just fine or not too bad for me. I upvoted time-related title because it seems like a fun scavenger hunt, famous pair because there were a few books on my TBR that I immediately thought of, Taylor Swift because Taylor Swift!, published more than 10 years ago for reasons mentioned above, and set in the Arab world because I've read a few this year and I realized I need to expand my reading in that area.

Only one downvote, and I tossed my two leftover votes away!

[Nancy]

I definitely have some older books on my TBR that I want to read so more than 10 years ago will get my vote. I currently have 6 up and 1 down, haven't decided if I'll use my last one or not.

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

I'm still deciding about how to vote, but there's a chance I won't use any downvotes this round either. I have a mild dislike of about a third of these prompts, but could probably find books to fill them anyway, so I'm not sure I dislike any enough to downvote.

I also don't love as many prompts as I did last round, but there are a number I like:

I have a few TBR options for 'time related word', but if it gets voted in will probably use it as a nudge to finally read Ten Days in a Mad-House

The pairs prompt is perfect for most of the fairy tale retellings I like to read as fun/comfort reads. Blinding Beauty is a sequel to a Beauty and the Beast retelling (including the same main characters), and happens to be top of my owned TBR at the moment, but I'd have plenty of similar options if I read that one before we get to next year's challenge.

I'm intrigued by 'arthropod on cover' even though I have no obvious TBR options! Same with titanium actually...

I love the 'at least 10 years old' prompt because it's a nice counterbalance to the 'published this year' prompt that all y'all new release readers inflict on the rest of us every year. ;-)

I find the five vowels prompt interesting, and realized that The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures not only counts, but as a bonus/BIO includes the letter Y, and I need a reason to get back to that after I had to return it the library partially read!

I will upvote Taylor Swift on general principles and Eastern Europe and likely Arab world for my ongoing personal 'read around the world' challenge.

[Joan]

I'm upvoting 7. I think this is a first. I upvoted:

Time-related word - I actually have several for day and minute
A famous pair - I like this idea
Someone's back on the cover - I love cover prompts and have a few for this
Missing person - easy peasy with my thrillers that I love
A book with a full name in the title - I have a few of those I keep meaning to get to
A book published 10 years ago - this helps me read older books. Lately I've been reading somewhat recent books.
All five vowels - Love title and author prompts.

I just downvoted Taylor Swift just because she isn't my favorite but no problem if it gets in.

Any of the other prompts I really don't mind if they make it through. They are all good.

Awesome round!

[Rae]

I'm also still deciding how to vote.

I like both the titanium and catch-22 prompts, but I'm not sure what I would choose to fit them. Would probably rely greatly on the listopia if they are voted in.

I don't really like this iteration of the Taylor Swift prompt because it is so broad. I like the lyrics ones we've done in the past that focus on one song.

I think I'm a no for 'arthropod on the cover' because bugs = eek!

'Missing person' sounds fun, and the geographic settings also seem quite doable.

I love the 'At least 10 years old' prompt--think it will be a nice nudge to read something that isn't distractingly new and shiny.

And I plan to vote for 'someone's back on the cover' as it's my own prompt and I think would be a fun scavenger search.

[Pam]

I wasn't sure about the Arab world prompt but found some intriguing books set in Egypt and Algeria. Probably not on these lists but one I highly recommend is the graphic novel The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar. It's set mostly in Algeria and partly in France.
Here are 2 lists of books set in Algeria:
Book Riot List of 6 - Where to start with Algerian Lit
100 Algerian Books in English Translation

Re: the older than 10 years prompt, that's not very old and includes the majority of books I own so that's not a challenge at all for me.

[Thomas]

Pam wrote: "I wasn't sure about the Arab world prompt but found some intriguing books set in Egypt and Algeria. Probably not on these lists but one I highly recommend is the graphic novel [book:The Rabbi's Cat..."

I see your point on ten years old but I also agree with the previous comment that it is a good ocunterweight to the book this year prompt.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I have nothing against bugs in general but I have read 3 books that are sort of from their point of view and I didn't like any of them - The Bees, Les Fourmis (The Ants) and Children of Time (spiders). The problem with insects as characters is that they have short, impersonal lives! Obviously, there are books with arthropods on the cover that aren't strictly about them.

[Thomas]

Robin P wrote: "I have nothing against bugs in general but I have read 3 books that are sort of from their point of view and I didn't like any of them - The Bees, Les Fourmis (The Ant..."

proably

[Samantha]

Robin P wrote: "I have nothing against bugs in general but I have read 3 books that are sort of from their point of view and I didn't like any of them - The Bees, Les Fourmis (The Ant..."

LOL! They do have rather short lives!

[Samantha]

Related too prompts can be a bit to vague for me but "A book related to the 22nd chemical element Titanium" is one of my favorites this round and I think "A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name" seems like it would be fun one. I had 7 upvotes and 1 down, overall some great suggestions!