[2022] Poll 4 Voting

[Shannon SA]

I really like multi-week prompts. Several here I will upvote. I didn't fancy eat, drink and be merry until I saw the LOTR suggestion, so may upvote that one. Love the classic and re-telling one, continents, rock, paper scissors. Will be downvoting the good the bad and the ugly. Just my thoughts so far until voting opens :)

[Ellie]

I am not a fan of the multiweek prompts where the two books must be closely linked, just because if I'm not liking the second, I either have to start again or force myself to read something I would ordinarily DNF.

The shared word in title is a nice compromise as I can avoid an uncommon word. I also just love rock, paper, scissors for some reason.

[Irene]

Alicia wrote: "I really liked the famous pair as a single prompt, but I think it's a bit tough as a two-book prompt. For example, Romeo and Juliet. Would I need to read a book about Romeo and then a book about Ju..."

Alicia, you bring up such a good point!! You're 100% right that it's much more difficult as a two-book prompt because reading two books about a famous pair means either reading 2 books about the same 2 people, or having to read 1 book about each person in the pair... which sounds hard/confusing. I'd actually like this prompt a lot more as a regular single-week prompt, like "Read a book about a famous pair".

[Shannon SA]

Ellie wrote: "I am not a fan of the multiweek prompts where the two books must be closely linked, just because if I'm not liking the second, I either have to start again or force myself to read something I would..."

Agree with you about two books being too closely linked, I don't care for the "famous pairs" one.

[NancyJ]

I have three definite upvotes so far.

My absolute top choice is 3 Continents. I would find it both easy and rewarding. I'm reading all 7 continents this year and I'm loving it.

I found the most interesting books so far for Flora and Fauna (which was a bit of a surprise). So this is now my second choice. It might be the best prompt to allow people to geek out on personal favorite topics related to science/nature/animals, that might not fit in any other prompts. But it wouldn't require others to actually read about science/nature/animals if they didn't want to. I have a feeling it might be hard to get science related topics in so painlessly.

Real/Fake has a lot of creative potential and flexibility too. It allows but doesn't require people to read a non-fiction book. I thought of: Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

I also like the classic/retelling idea, and the connected book from diff centuries. I like trying to connect concepts in different books.
For land/sea, I might stay with revolutionary war setting, and read something about ocean/ships
I could probably find something for any of the 2 week prompts.

The time prompt is similar to what I used for the opposites prompt last year. I loved it. I chose This Is How You Lose the Time War (takes place over centuries or eons), and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
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I'm having difficulty with the other 3-book prompts. I like the catchy phrases, but I'm having a hard time finding books I'd really like to read for all three topics in each phrase. Many would work as individual prompts.

For rock paper scissors, I could easily find 10 books based on the topics listed under paper, but nothing on rock or scissors hit me. I love books about books (it would be an easy upvote for me as an individual prompt). I also have possibilities for books based on newspaper stories/investigations, or books about newspapers, publishers, authors, journalists or artists. In another group a few years ago, the journalism tag was very popular and the books I read were very worthwhile.

I didn't search long for Good, bad, ugly or the 3 evils, because based on comments, I think the negative words might keep them from getting enough votes to win.

"Eat drink and be merry" - This phrase might make a better individual prompt, and I would probably pick a book set during the holiday season, a wedding or a party (ex. Malibu Rising)

A book with a primary color could be fun, but maybe not three of them.

[Ellie]

Some more ideas for rock, it is also a movement, like in a rocking chair, rocking horse or rock the baby's crib. A person can be solid as a rock if they are reliable. You might day something rocks if you think it's amazing. You could read about Alcatraz or other places known as "the rock" or a character who is a rock climber. An asteroid could be heading to earth. There are places with Rock in their name too, Little Rock or Rockton (fictional).

Other words for rocks: stone, pebble, marble, slate, flint, concrete.

For scissors, I posted this in the wild discussion:

In the game scissors cut paper so covers where something has been cut could work?


I have seen a few books with scissors on the cover too (often a tiny bit of the design).


There's also a thriller called Rock Paper Scissors

[Ellie]

I want to read Amy McCulloch's adult debut next year Breathless which is about a climbing expedition so I think that would be perfect for "rock".

[Anastasia]

@Nancy #9 2 books by authors who share a family relationship

[Kim]

Harry Truman and Margaret Truman;
Ann Patchett and Jeanne Ray; or
Elliot Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt or Franklin D Roosevelt - all work for parent/child pairs

[Joan]

There are a lot of multiweek prompts that I like. I wasn't fond of this year's prompt however. The future one seemed somewhat hard for me to fulfill this year with the books that I had.

Several of the multiweek prompts I will upvote. I do have a few that I'm downvoting because I'm not too fond of them. It always seems though some of the prompts I'm not fond of I end up reading a favorite book of the year for those prompts.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Joan, I have three prompts left to finish my first round of the challenge and I have read 3 different books for "future" and none of them have actually worked (sci-fi, but present day, instead of futuristic). I'm surprised at how difficult it has been for me to fill that one.

I'm going to be doing more downvoting this week just because I like multi-weeks, but I want to keep my upvotes to just a couple that I would really enjoy (rather than my normal voting strategy of having more upvotes with anything that strikes my fancy). I just don't want to get more than 1 or 2 in the list.

Currently looking at upvoting 3 continents (even though I can never spell that word correctly, I like the challenge of it), long time/short time (because I like that it could really be two separate prompts that aren't necessarily connected, and I really like both one-day books and multi-generational books), and same word in title (because, again, the books don't have to be connected in any way other than through the title).

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

I'll probably use 7 upvotes this round, though I'm still figuring out which I like the *most* for my last few of those. I'll use a downvote on 'good, bad and ugly' because the only really clear way I can come up with to do ugly is an ugly cover, and I can't stand subjective cover prompts. (It's fine if it's just a scavenger hunt for a specific item or color or something, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about whether I like or dislike covers...)

Thinking through some of the prompts I like:

A classic novel or story and a retelling of that classic
I like this one, since I read a lot of fairy tale retellings, though reading the original fairy tale might not be as much fun as if I picked a different classic...
Another classic retelling that hasn't been mentioned here yet is The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

3 books set on three different continents
A definite upvote for me! I'll probably try to use the BIO option of not counting the continent I live on.

3 books related to the phrase "Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil"
I'll probably vote for this one and use it for characters with visual, hearing, and speech disabilities, especially since the directly related disability prompt recently didn't get voted in.

3 books related to eat, drink, and be merry
I like this one, and immediately think of reading a cookbook, a book on beverages (such as Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking) and a book about parties (to match the theme of the other two, probably guide to entertaining or themed parties, though I'd count any book where a party is central to the plot).

2 books by authors who share a family relationship
In addition to the all the other options mentioned, J.R.R. Tolkien has at least one grandson (Simon Tolkien) and great-grandson (Royd Tolkien) who have written books, and I believe one of Simon's was a biography of his famous grandfather.

Oh, and of course Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane.

Also any combination of Douglas Wilson and his son N.D. Wilson, daughters Rebekah Merkle and Rachel Jankovic, and father Jim Wilson.

I like this prompt, and don't find it particularly limiting, especially as it spans many genres and styles.

10. 2 books with the same word in the title (excluding articles and conjunctions)
Definitely upvoting this one! I like 'the same title' prompt I did in a challenge a few years ago but noticed several books that shared unusual words/spelling in the title without being perfect title match (such as Masque and Traitor's Masque, and it would be fun to track down some of those again)

15. 2 related books written in different centuries
I love this one! Last year I made it challenge prompt on my personal challenge I create to read a classic and modern bestseller in one of my favorite genres, and if it gets through I might use this to do the some thing in a another genre.

[Sue]

Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt are husband and wife

[Sue]

And for Australians, Tom and Meg Keneally are father and daughter

[Joan]

I totally missed

9. 2 books by authors who share a family relationship

I've been meaning to read more Stephen King books and I have a few Joe Hill books to read. I'm not sure I'd necessarily vote for this prompt yet but that is a good option for me if it gets through.

[Ellie]

I'm feeling a bit neutral on the three continents, just because it feels a bit like two thirds of a freebie unless you're good at sticking to self imposed rules eg. exclude Europe and North America.

I tried a theme with past present future this year but I had a contemporary that didn't fit anywhere else so ended up putting that in the slot for present (although thinking about it, they all had time related words in the title, but that was more of an accident).

[Nancy]

Anastasia wrote: "@Nancy #9 2 books by authors who share a family relationship"

I guess I don't see that as prying into private lives, if they've made it known they're related.

I agree the 3 continents feels like a bit of a freebie, I read books this year that easily fit the prompt.

It's interesting that people liked The Good/Bad/Ugly when I mentioned it in the Wild Discussion, but others are downvoting it. I get why, but I'm a little surprised at the backlash to it. Oh well, can't win them all!

[Pam]

For the word merry- my thoughts are books shelved as humor/humorous or Up Lit, Christmas mysteries or romance, American Pastoral by Philip Roth (character named Merry), a synonym for merry in the title. I would probably read LOTR (thank you to the person who mentioned it!)

My favorite suggestion is the same word in both titles. I was surprised at how many books in my house have the word Black in the title. I also have 2 books with the same title (Away). An easy way to fill it would be 2 books in a series where the same word is used (e.g. “Killing” in the Bill O’Reilly’s Killing series).

[Edie]

Nancy wrote: "I've been doing a little Googling, here are some ideas so far:

Stephen King and Joe Hill or Owen King (father and sons)
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman (married couple)
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Pa..."

And you could add Tabitha King as an option with Stephen King and their sons. I was initially thinking of this as a down vote, but as folks keep adding options, I like this prompt. I suspect there are dozens and dozens of pairs waiting to be discovered,

[Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~]

My ups (dunno how many) will definitely be from these:

4. 3 books related to Rock, Paper, Scissors
6. 3 books related to the phrase "Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil"
9. 2 books by authors who share a family relationship
10. 2 books with the same word in the title (excluding articles and conjunctions)
13. 2 books related to flora and fauna
14. 3 books related to the three primary colors

I prefer a 3 week challenge to a 2 so they may take the spots for me.

[Nancy]

Other ideas for merry -

Merry and Bright
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood or retellings of Robin Hood
A Head Full of Ghosts (character named Merry)
Authors with first or last name of Merry - Merry Farmer, Robert W. Merry

I swear I read a book with a character named Merry recently but I can't find it.

[Jillian]

Ellie wrote: "I'm feeling a bit neutral on the three continents, just because it feels a bit like two thirds of a freebie unless you're good at sticking to self imposed rules eg. exclude Europe and North America..."

I feel like similar with the 3 continents. Europe, North America are really easy to fill but then I worry that we will get more location prompts which I don’t enjoy as much as other prompts.

I think some of my negativity of multi weeks is I did not enjoy the past, present and future prompt and we had the beginning and end while each was a single prompt it feels like a multi week. For 2019s multi week we had binary opposites, I went with first/last so it felt like repeat of something I didn’t enjoy. This year felt like 5 multi week prompts that were not fun. I really hope we get something fun this time and I pick better books for the prompts.

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

I am still at a total loss as to what I will vote for this week. I can't make up my mind at all! Why are you all so good at coming up with prompts??

[Beth]

My favourites are the 3 continents and same word in the title. The continents one is easy but I would probably exclude N. America & Europe unless I needed a freebie prompt for a book that didn't fit elsewhere. It could also be an option to only include continental Europe and exclude the UK as that's where most of my European books are from.

I have a couple of others I'm thinking of voting for (real/fake, rock/paper/scissors) but will have to see how many options I have for them. I'm generally not a fan of multiweeks so I hope we don't end up with a lot of them voted in.

[Mairéad]

As I have already decided I want to read all LGBT books/authors for ATY 2022, that is really influencing my decisions...

I think 'A classic novel or story and a retelling of that classic' would be quite difficult if I was limited to LGBT books/authors, I know there is some LGBT classics, and I love a good retelling - but finding an LGBT classic I want to read AND a connected retelling I think would be quite difficult (if anyone has any recommendations let me know, cause retelling are some of my favourites and any other year I would be upvoting this!)

'2 books related to the quote, “One, if by land and two, if by sea” from the poem Paul Revere’s Ride' - Love this one! Thinking I could do a pirate book set at sea, and then anything land related. I read 'The Last True Poets of the Sea' recently and think this fits the vibe of this prompt

'3 books set on three different continents' - kind of a free prompt, might try and use 3 continents I read from the least if possible.

'3 books related to Rock, Paper, Scissors' - another free-is prompt, scissors is the only part I am hesitating on - maybe a book with deckled edges..?

'2 books related to "Real" and "Fake"' - not sure about this one, I guess you could go set in real world (contemporary) and see in made up world (fantasy)

'3 books related to the phrase "Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil" '- while I love this expression, I can't think of how I would choose books for this... I guess you could go audiobook, physical book and graphic novel..? but I don't think that really works

'A book set within a short time (a day, night, weekend...) and
A book set within a long time (decades, multiple generations...)' - Love this! Love books that mess with time and how long a story is taking place over. Definitely loads of choices.

'3 books related to eat, drink, and be merry' - I can think of a few food related books that came out this year, and with merry I think I would definitely go with a Christmas-y book, no clue what to with drink though.

'2 books by authors who share a family relationship' - again like the first suggestion, I think finding two books with LGBT rep/authors written by family, that I'm interested in would be quite difficult.

'2 books with the same word in the title (excluding articles and conjunctions)' I am doing the Buzzwordathon year long challenge, and have done this every month so far this year - so this would be a freebie for me! I would recommend checking out the Buzzwordathon group on goodreads if you can't think of any books with this prompt.

'2 books related to a famous pair' I cannot think of any famous pairs (apart from Ant and Dec) that I would be interested in reading about, not sure where I would go with this prompt....

'3 books connected to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' - I think with this I would just go with covers, or maybe someone's best/worst/most disappointing of the year!

'2 books related to flora and fauna' Not that interested in flora and fauna, but they are quite popular on book covers so I'm sure I'd find something easily enough!

'3 books related to the three primary colors' Again these are quite popular on book covers so I'm sure I'd find something easily enough!

'2 related books written in different centuries' - Probably do a book from towards the end of the 20th century and then just a new release...

[Hannah]

My favorite multi-week prompts have been the one that encourage me to compare the books as I read them, so I like the ones that are more thematic more than I like the ones related to sayings or rhymes (I don't mind those, I just find them to be more like single week cover/title/etc prompts.) I loved last year's prompt about opposite titles, because I chose books that were really interesting to compare and contrast, and I'm enjoying this year's past/present/future prompt as well - I'm currently in the middle of reading three books that all span time periods from the past to the future and it's so interesting to compare them!

So I think I'll be most likely to upvote the timespan one, since I think that's a fun comparison, and the "real/fake" one. Maybe also flora and fauna, since I could choose two very nature themed books and compare. And I'll probably throw in the three continents one, since I'm always trying to work on my around the world challenge.

[Chrissy]

I want to (re?) point out that a “famous pair” doesn’t need to be people, it could be concepts like, I don’t know… here and now, red and black, war and peace, or agony and ecstasy. While these pairs are often opposites, they don’t have to be. I’d love to see others’ ideas here.

[Alicia]

Chrissy, you are better than me. When I heard famous pair I thought people and peanut butter and jelly. But decided peanut butter and jelly would be too hard to fill one book let alone two.

[Kathy]

Chrissy wrote: "I want to (re?) point out that a “famous pair” doesn’t need to be people, it could be concepts like, I don’t know… here and now, red and black, war and peace, or agony and ecstasy. While these pair..."

love and marriage
wit and wisdom
hope and fear

[Nicole]

I like the family relations one.
I probably would read Tabitha King and Stephen King, since I have both of them on my tbr.

Or maybe Tiziano Terzani and his son Folco Terzani

If someone wants to read some german historical fiction, Iny Lorentz is a Husband/Wife duo. Their The Wandering Harlot series was a bestseller in Germany and translated to english and other languages.

[Kelly Sj]

I also like to connect the multi-week prompts with a theme. This year I did books related to activism for past/present/future.

From this list, I like three continents best - I would probably do novels involving royalty (Europe, Africa, Asia) or refugees (Central America, Africa, Asia). I also like real/fake, and would find a historical fiction and history non-fiction about the same event/time. The others I think I would have a harder time with a theme, but I could work with flora and fauna, same word in the title, and different centuries.

[Samantha]

Mairéad wrote: "As I have already decided I want to read all LGBT books/authors for ATY 2022, that is really influencing my decisions...

I think 'A classic novel or story and a retelling of that classic' would be..."

Sounds l need to follow you to see what you read next year; sounds like it will be challenging but hopefully in the best of ways.

My one suggestion if the classic and retelling gets through is to read or reread The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dorian. I haven't read the retelling but this would be a hard prompt for me so I was searching for retelling and saw it.

[Mie]

I just found this list of word pairs for inspiration:
https://www.sightwordsgame.com/vocabu...

[Chrissy]

Mie wrote: "I just found this list of word pairs for inspiration:
https://www.sightwordsgame.com/vocabu..."

Awesome! The one that jumped out at me from that list was “lost and found”, I think it would be fun to search for books to fit that.

[Jillian]

Mie wrote: "I just found this list of word pairs for inspiration:
https://www.sightwordsgame.com/vocabu..."

I found this list very helpful! I was stuck on thinking of people and for a single prompt I liked it but it seemed way too hard for a multi week. I still would like the original single prompt to make it but I don’t think I will be down voting this one anymore.

[Mie]

Chrissy wrote:
Awesome! The one that jumped out at me from that list was “lost and f..."

Yes, I noticed that one as well. But being a mystery lover I might go with “Life and Death” 😉

[Beth]

I was thinking of downvoting the famous pair but that list has some fun ideas and might make me change my mind. I like Adam and Eve especially. I have authors with those names on my TBR and surely there will be some books with characters that fit too.

[Martha]

This discussion has been helpful! My down vote for famous pair has been changed to an up vote knowing that it includes words and not just people. In fact, flora/fauna or short time/long time are paired words that can be used for this prompt, too. I don't know that I'll have any down votes for this poll.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

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[Rachel]

Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil is by far my favourite of this bunch. I really wanted to include the "evil" part in my choices, so I'm going to look for thrillers where this could apply. For example, there's The Silent House, where a murder takes place in the home of a deaf family, who obviously did not hear what happened. The author has two more books set in the deaf community as well. For Speak No Evil, I have a book somewhere on my TBR (although I can't remember the name offhand) about a person with a disabiltiy, I think it was cerebral palsy, who witnesses a murder but they cannot speak, so they can't tell what they saw.

As of now, that's the only one I'm planning to upvote. I might also upvote Rock, Paper, Scissors, but I'm a little skeptical about upvoting too many. I'm not really a fan of multiweeks in general, and it bugs me a bit that there isn't an option to not have one at all. I guess in theory if none of them are enough of a frontrunner, it's possible there would be no winner, but I would guess that would just result in another multiweek poll later on.

Other than that, I'm not a huge fan of most of the suggestions. In theory I like the classic and retelling, but I'm not sure I'll be motivated enough to pick up a classic next year, especially since I've already read the majority that I really want to read. Add into that the fact that I'd need a retelling of that same classic, and it becomes that much harder.

I guess I just don't really get the "One if by land, two if by sea" quote. I get that a book set at sea or on a boat would work for the second half, but most books are set on land so isn't that a freebie? I'm also not really a fan of Real/Fake or famous pair.

I like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but I'm not sure how I'd tackle it in a way that separates the "bad" from the "ugly" enough to justify them as their own categories. Most of the rest are fine, and I could find something if needed, but just don't interest me much.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I voted against the family relationship and the classic/retelling as they both seem too restricted for my personal interests. Otherwise I didn't have strong feelings about most of them. My favorite is Rock/Paper/Scissors although, or because, I actually have no idea what I would use!

[Joan]

I have 5 downvotes and 3 upvotes

My upvotes were:

2 books by authors that share a family relationship

2 books with the same word in the title

2 related books written in different centuries

My downvotes were:
Rock, Paper, Scissors - I like the idea but scissors ruled it out for me

3 books relating to hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil - I'll be fine if it gets in though

A book set within a short time and a book set within a long time - The short periods I always have a hard time with but I know I can find one if I need to

3 book relating to eat, drink and be merry - a little too subjective for me.

3 books connected to the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - I could probably work with titles if this gets through so not a bad prompt.

Good round again!

[Kendra]

I split my votes 4 to 4.

Upvotes:

Real & Fake - This was my suggestion, so of course I voted for it. 😊

2 titles with a word in common - So many possibilities for how to connect the 2 books.

Rock, Paper, Scissors - This one just speaks to me. I have no clue how I'll interpret it yet, but it still sounds fun.

3 primary colours - Colours in title, cover colours, or Yellow = Happy, Blue = Sad, Red = Love. Once again, so many possibilities.

Downvotes

Classic/Retelling - It's the connection that makes me downvote this. I don't like counting rereads and committing to reading a retelling of a story I might not even like also doesn't appeal to me.

Short time/Long Time - I've done challenges calling for books set over a short period of time and they're kind of a pain to find in my experience.

2 different centuries - I don't know why my gut response to this is so negative.

Family Relationship - I just think this is too limiting, although given one of my favorite authors is actually a husband and wife writing duo (Ilona Andrews) it would be easy for me to complete.

[Edie]

There are some good options here, but I am not a fan of multi-week prompts. As such I will be using most of my votes to down-vote in hopes that we don't have more than one multi-week prompt.

[Thomas]

I will definitely vote three continents and classic and retelling for which I would read Anne of Green Gables and Diana of Orchard Slope

[Nancy]

I like multi-week prompts, and finding connections between the books is part of the fun. For this year's past/present/future I was going to do 3 books about time travel, and just today I threw that out the window and decided to use 3 books with female detectives, one in the past, one in the present, and one in the future.

I went with 5 up and 3 down this time.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I only used upvotes for prompts that I would be ok with having all of on the list.... that meant voting for only one 3-week prompt because I would not want 6 weeks covering just two prompts. I did vote for two 2-week prompts because I liked those and the ones I picked were ones I would have voted for if they were individual prompts.

If you're someone who doesn't like multiweek prompts at all, I highly recommend using your votes to downvote the ones you really don't like, which will be more likely to limit the number of multiweek prompts we get on the list.

(Every year we have done a survey about multiweek prompts, and every year, the group elects to have a multiweek prompt on the list, so we decided not to do the survey this year, for those that are curious.)

[Rachel]

I ended up voting only for Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil. There's a few others I'd be okay with (Rock, Paper, Scissors, for example) but I didn't want to risk too many longer prompts making it.

I get that multiweek has always been popular in the past, so my comment wasn't really about the fact that we weren't asked this time. It's more a general comment that I've never been a fan of multiweeks in general. I'd much rather have individual prompts instead since it's more variety. I guess that's why I tend to prefer multi-weeks where there is a theme to the prompts, but not necessarily a connection between the books themselves.

I ended up downvoting 7 prompts, which is the most I've ever downvoted at once. I feel a little bad about it to be honest, it feels very negative to downvote so many. I could live with any of them if I had to, but there were several that I'd really rather not see. I actually ended up downvoting a whole bunch of 2-week prompts, which wasn't really a plan but might be for the best because I wouldn't want so many multi-weeks making it.

[Beth]

I ended up with a lot of downvotes too (2 up, 6 down). I only upvoted the 2 I would really want to see make the list. The others I liked but didn't love I left as neutral and used my downvotes instead for others that I'm not a big fan of in the hopes we won't end up with too many winners.

Having said that, the only one I really couldn't work with is the classic and retelling. I generally dislike retellings and don't have any on my TBR, let alone one that is based on a classic I want to read.

[Jillian]

I only up voted one prompt and down voted seven. There are some that I down voted that I would like as a single prompt. Since, they could be rewritten as a single prompt I don't feel bad for down voting so many. I also hope that it limits the poll to just one winner.

This is the poll that I have no idea what the winner will be. It seems like more members who post are just voting for the ones they really want where as in the past members who posted treated the voting the same as any poll so the results will be interesting.