[2022] Poll 15 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 Friday, September 24 and results will be posted in the morning of Tuesday, September 28.

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 pictures or illustrations
2. In honor of the classic second season episode, "Twenty Two," a book related to The Twilight Zone
3. A book with an academic setting and/or with a teacher that plays an important role
4. A book set in a library or bookstore
5. A book related to the wonders of the world
6. A book with a pleasant word in the title
7. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
8. A book related to firsts
9. A book that involves an "ism" - racism, ageism, sexism, ableism, color-sim or a similar types of bias
10. A book connected to bees
11. A book that takes place within a year
12. A book about an unlikely friendship
13. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
14. A book relevant to the theme or lyrics of a Beatles Song
15. A book connected to liminality/transitions

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/FGBH5S/

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

IDEAS FROM THE SUGGESTIONS THREAD

2. In honor of the classic second season episode, "Twenty Two," a book related to The Twilight Zone
Background: This episode is about a dancer hospitalized for fatigue who gets recurring nightmares about the hospital morgue, Room 22.

Wikipedia link about the episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_...

This would work for a book related to any revival of the Twilight Zone as well, which opens it up to, for example, reading any book related to Stephen Spielberg since he directed the 1983 Twilight Zone movie!

Some ideas for this prompt:
- A sci-fi or dystopian book
- A dark/scary book
- A book published or set in any year the show aired: 1959-1964, 1985-1989, 2002-2003, 2019-2020
- A book with a surprise/twist ending

For a BIO option, read a book related to this specific episode:
- A book related to a hospital/healthcare/illness/doctors/nurses/etc
- A book related to entertainment because the main character is a professional dancer
- A book related to dreaming or nightmares
- A book related to premonitions
- A book where something keeps repeating
- A book considered not an author's best: this episode was one of just 6 filmed on a cheaper type of tape as a cost-saving experiment, and is therefore considered inferior, visually to the other episodes
- A second book in a series, as this episode was from Season 2

Creative takes:
- A book set in a hotel because of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride at Disneyland/Disney World
-A book related to any of the actors who starred in The Twilight Zone, like William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, etc

3. A book with an academic setting and/or with a teacher that plays an important role
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) by Naomi Novik
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

5. A book related to the wonders of the world
There are several different lists and this could be from any of them.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/ar...

Just in case the link doesn't work, the seven wonders of the ancient world are the great pyramid of Giza, hanging gardens of Babylon, statue of Zeus at Olympus, temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the lighthouse of Alexandria

https://www.hgtv.com/lifestyle/travel...

Seven new wonders are the Taj Mahal, the Colosseum, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Christ the Redeemer statue, Petra, and the Great Wall of China

https://www.planetware.com/magic-trav...

Seven natural wonders are the Northern Lights, the Grand Canyon, Paricutin, Mount Everest, Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Victoria Falls, and the Great Barrier Reef.

7. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
Tthe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, there are four main characters: Carmen Lena, Bridget, and Tibby. So it would count.

I think To Kill a Mockingbird would count. Scout narrates it, but Atticus is a main character.

Other ones off the top of my head:

Moby Dick (Ahab)
What Alice Forgot
Alice in Wonderland (or any Wonderland themed book)
Little Women (Amy)
Anna Karenina
Persuasion (Anne)
Anne of Green Gables
Misery (Annie)
Midnight at the Blackbird Café (Anna Kate)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Arthur)
Book of Negroes (Aminata)
The kite Runner (Amir)
one of Us is Lying (Abby)

Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Grapes of Wrath (Tom)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Divergent (Tris)
The Eyre Affaire (Thursday)

8. A book related to firsts
It could be the First female leader, first man/woman in space, first kiss, first date, first flight, first book in a series, first book published by an author, first vacation, first child, first pet,, etc.

9. A book that involves an "ism" - racism, ageism, sexism, ableism, color-sim or a similar types of bias
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

10. A book connected to bees
There is a Goodreads shelf here:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

And a short list here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1

But there are so many different ways you could go with this.

There are many current ecology books plus books on gardening to encourage bees.

Lots of international bees from The Beekeeper of Aleppo to Ukraine’s Grey Bees.

If you think about The Birds & the Bees that steers towards romance and erotica. Plus honeymooners and The Unhoneymooners and A Honeybun and Coffee plus other foodie books.

There is fantasy with The Bees and dystopias about life without them. There’s crime with The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder.

And, of course, there’s always Winnie-the-Pooh

11. A book that takes place within a year
There are many non-fiction books about a year of doing something:

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
The Year of Magical Thinking
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Year of Yes
A Year in Provence

But also lots of fiction with a similar theme:

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Your Perfect Year
My Oxford Year

And a lot of books take place over the course of a school year, like the Harry Potter books, The Magicians, the Percy Jackson books...

Of course the prompt is within a year so any book that takes place over the course of a day, week, month, summer, etc, would work.

13. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
This could be a lesser known book or a new release.

Tip: you can sort your TBR by number of ratings if you click 'settings' near to the search bar and check 'num ratings'. This will add the column to your list and you can sort from low-to-high.

15. A book connected to liminality/transitions
Whether it's a theme or aspect of the story, part of the title, or an image on the cover. Liminality and transitional things are to do with change and the in between. It can include things like doorways, gates, changes in time such as seasonal changes, initiations, stages of aging like menopause or puberty, death and dying, pregnancy, birth, rebirth, changing from one job to another, could even include things like revolutions/coups, moving house, apocalyptic events could count too. The possibilities are pretty wide ranging and can fit into probably any genre and non-fiction.

The Door in the Hedge and Other Stories by Robin McKinley
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
Changes (The Dresden Files, #12) by Jim Butcher
First Blood A Cultural Study of Menarche by Sally Dammery
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

[Shannon SA]

Was the prompt "Around the year with ___" seconded by Dubhease, message 24? If so, I don't see it in the list? If not, apologies!

[Rosemary]

I think Dubhease was seconding the character A T Y prompt suggested by Rachel (no initial), which they had both already suggested in messages 20/21, not the prompt with the blank suggested by Rachel G.

[Ellie]

Will #9 just be shorted to a book that involves an ism if it gets on the list? The examples suggest it needs to be about prejudice, but I think it could also be used to read about socialism, capitalism, Buddhism, surrealism, etc.

[Shannon SA]

Rosemary wrote: "I think Dubhease was seconding the character A T Y prompt suggested by Rachel (no initial), which they had both already suggested in messages 20/21, not the prompt with the blank suggested by Rache..."

Ah, thanks Rosemary :)

[Conny]

Shannon wrote: "Was the prompt "Around the year with ___" seconded by Dubhease, message 24? If so, I don't see it in the list? If not, apologies!"

I got the same idea when I caught up on the thread just now, but I think it's as Rosemary said.

Too bad, actually, I would have enjoyed that prompt. I hope it'll be resubmitted.

[Conny]

PS: I am super stoked for the wonders of the world prompt!

[Thomas]

I actually might do no downvotes.There are some I like more than others but nothing I'm dreading

[Irene]

Also sad that the "Around the world with ____" prompt didn't make it in this round but really thrilled with some of these suggestions! Particularly the wonders of the world. And I like Ellie's idea of using -ism in more ways than social justice, opening it up to things like religion and specific movements.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

A couple of these would be shortened on the final list.

"Twilight Zone" would be shortened to take out the "In honor of..." part (it would still be on the Weekly Thread, just not the final list of prompts).

-Ism would take out the examples.

I have updated the ideas from the suggestions thread.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'm not a huge fan of the wording of the Beatles song one, but I'm not a big Beatles fan so I don't know if I'm missing something. Could it be reworded as "A book relevant to the theme or lyrics of a Beatle's song"? Without the word "specific" in there? Or would that change the meaning?

[Jillian]

I think, the Around the Year with has a better chance next year when we don’t have so many title prompts.

[Shannon]

Emily wrote: "I'm not a huge fan of the wording of the Beatles song one, but I'm not a big Beatles fan so I don't know if I'm missing something. Could it be reworded as "A book relevant to the theme or lyrics of..."

I would agree with this. I think the intention was a book related to ANY Beatles song, so the "specific" is a bit confusing.

[Shannon]

Ellie wrote: "Will #9 just be shorted to a book that involves an ism if it gets on the list? The examples suggest it needs to be about prejudice, but I think it could also be used to read about socialism, capita..."

I did not suggest this one in the suggestions thread, but I was the one who initially proposed it in the Wild Discussions thread. My intention was to include any -ism. I just listed a few examples, but did not consider those all-inclusive. However, I was not the one who actually proposed it on the suggestions thread, so maybe that person has a different intention?

[Shannon]

Hi there!

Can someone add the following to the second post here with the additional information about the prompts? Someone posted this on the Suggestions thread, but I think it was missed. This is a listopia for the -isms suggestion:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

And here is another one:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Irene wrote: "Also sad that the "Around the world with ____" prompt didn't make it in this round but really thrilled with some of these suggestions! Particularly the wonders of the world. And I like Ellie's idea..."

I wasn't a fan of the ATY prompt, it was too much a "pick anything" prompt. If it gets re-suggested, maybe an extra level of difficulty?

[Jill]

Emily wrote: "I'm not a huge fan of the wording of the Beatles song one, but I'm not a big Beatles fan so I don't know if I'm missing something. Could it be reworded as "A book relevant to the theme or lyrics of..."

I understood it as meaning a song was chosen and a book relevant to that song was used. IE yesterday could be something in the past. The fool on the hill, could be about a someone who is foolish or a climb up hill to somewhere or something thing, PS I love you, could be book about a letter or love.
If I’m wrong maybe the person who suggested it could put me right.

[Irene]

Pamela wrote: "Irene wrote: "Also sad that the "Around the world with ____" prompt didn't make it in this round but really thrilled with some of these suggestions! Particularly the wonders of the world. And I lik..."

I see what you mean, I wonder what a good BIO option would be? And Jillian might be right about there being a lot of title prompts already.

[Irene]

I like song prompts, but with a discography like the Beatles', I'm afraid it'll become another freebie prompt since probably every book could be related in some way to a lyric from a Beatles song. I think I'd prefer a BIO version where it would have to be related to the title of the song rather than to the theme/lyrics.

The book with <5000 ratings is very similar to a Popsugar prompt from this year, but I still like the emphasis on lesser-known books. I think, similarly, the Firsts prompt is also like our Beginning prompt for this year, which I'm also not opposed to!

The only two I'm on the fence about are the set within a year and characters' names prompt because they both require an extra step of research (I would have to look up books one by one to see if they fit). I think a lot of the books I read don't read specify how much time has passed, and my neurotic OCD brain would probably refuse to choose a book unless I knew for a fact that it took less than a year. But it could be a good excuse to read an epistolary novel, or another set-in-one-day book.

[Ellie]

I think liminality (an inbetween state) is an interesting idea, but the examples have made me think it's an anything prompt. Stories are often focused on a time of change.

[Pam]

The Beatles suggestion has endless possibilities. I’m already thinking of song titles/lyrics that match with prompts that didn’t make it or have been in the Wild Discussion. Here are a few examples:

Journalism: A Day in the Life line “I read the news today”
Takes place under water: Yellow Submarine line “And we lived beneath the waves”
Musical instrument: While my guitar gently weeps
Fun genres/ sci-fi sub genres: Across the Universe

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Ellie wrote: "Will #9 just be shorted to a book that involves an ism if it gets on the list? The examples suggest it needs to be about prejudice, but I think it could also be used to read about socialism, capita..."

My sense was that the original suggester wanted to address prejudice and bigotry, not have people read about political systems. If it's anything ending in "ism", you also have religions like Buddhism and even an unrelated word like "schism".

Here is what NancyJ, who suggested it, wrote:
Read a book that involves an "ism" - racism, ageism, sexism, ableism, classism, colorism. or a similar form of bias or discrimination

NancyJ, if you see this, do you have a suggestion as to how to reword this to make the intention clear in the short form on the poll? Could it see "a book that involves bias or discrimination"? "Ism" is short and punchy but apparently has multiple meanings to people.

[Joan]

At one point I was going to suggest a prompt relating to a Beatles song. I was going to try and do something on the cover related to one of their songs. Blackbird first comes to mind for that.

[Ellie]

Robin P wrote: "My sense was that the original suggester wanted to address prejudice and bigotry, not have people read about political systems..."

In that case, making it an ism kind of excludes the kind of prejudice described with the phobia suffix, eg. homophobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia. If the prompt is "a book related to an ism" it shouldn't really matter that the original suggester doesn't want me to read about something else...

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Irene wrote: "I like song prompts, but with a discography like the Beatles', I'm afraid it'll become another freebie prompt since probably every book could be related in some way to a lyric from a Beatles song. ..."

I agree, I love the Beatles but there are so many songs that almost anything can fit somewhere.

[dalex]

"Pleasant word" seems so arbitrary. Does anyone have any suggestions of the types of words and/or books that would fit?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Updated, Shannon. I had the first link but I must have missed the second.

Jill, I know what you're saying, but the word specific still feels weird to me. I won't change it or anything but I'm not a huge fan of the wording.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Emily wrote: "A couple of these would be shortened on the final list.

"Twilight Zone" would be shortened to take out the "In honor of..." part (it would still be on the Weekly Thread, just not the final list of..."

I feel like I'm always being the downer on pop culture, which I personally enjoy, but if a prompt isn't absolutely obvious to the voters in the short form, it won't get voted in. It doesn't necessarily mean they hate the idea. They look at it, think "huh?" and move on. They don't necessarily go to these threads, or even if they do, they don't have an immediate book in mind and don't want to research. Or they just dismiss it, thinking "I didn't watch that specific show", "I don't know that specific song", etc. even though of course they don't have to know anything about it. There will be discussion threads for each prompt with ideas.

I would be fine with being wrong on this. We had some song prompts the last couple years. Apparently some people know feel that was fun and want more, others feel we did that and they want something new.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

In these times of strife and doom, I like the idea of "pleasant" word, but that also seems like a freebie. I would say the words love, happy, peace, sunrise, sunset, party, for instance would fit and they are easy to find in titles. Of course the word "family" could be pleasant to one person and not to another. Or maybe I love the word "purple". No one can debate whether it is a pleasant word or not, if I say it is.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Pleasant word, to me, is something soothing like garden, wish, diary, green, soft, book.

Suuuuper arbitrary though lol

[Ellie]

If you're thinking of rewording the ism prompt because of my comments, I like it a lot more with the freedom to choose how you apply the ism suffix. I have done a book about prejudice in many forms loads of times, I read books with all those biases in frequently, but I don't find it an exciting prompt, so would likely downvote it, as opposed to the ism prompt which I might upvote as it allows me to read some of those non-fiction books I never get round to about topics such as fast fashion and universal basic income.

[Suzanne]

I love unlikely friendship.

[Shannon]

Here are some ideas for a book about an unlikely friendship:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/l...

http://www.amreading.com/2016/12/03/f...

[Shannon]

At first glance, I am thinking 5 upvotes for me for sure:

1. A book that involves an -ism. I will read something related to a bias or discrimination, but I see no problem with people doing other "-isms" if the prompt is shortened to "A book about an -ism." These are all up to personal interpretation, right?
2. A book connected to bees - I liked this one the first time it was suggested, so I will vote for it again.
3. A book about an unlikely friendship - my suggestion, so of course I am voting for it. :)
4. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads - I like the idea of promoting less-known and/or newer books.
5. A book related to a Beatles Song - I love this one because I am a big Beatles fan. Again, I think it could be worded better. I would prefer something like : "A book relevant to the lyrics or theme of a Beatles song of your choosing." But I will vote for it either way,

I am really intrigued by a book related to the wonders of the world. I would need suggestions for books on this one. A quick search turned up nothing. I could pick a wonder and read a non-fiction book, but I'd really prefer a related novel.

Related to firsts is very close in my mind to "in the beginning" that we have this year, so I likely will not vote for it because it seems like a do-over. I don't hate it though.

Liminality/transitions is interesting, but seems a bit wide open to me, as most of the books I read are about a character going through a major life change. So I am not opposed to this, but it will be pretty much a freebie for me if it gets in.

I like the pleasant word prompt, but again, this almost seems too wide and a freebie for me.

I don't have strong feelings either way on the other prompts. I don't hate any of them and could make any in this group work.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Emily wrote: "Pleasant word, to me, is something soothing like garden, wish, diary, green, soft, book.

Suuuuper arbitrary though lol"

Garden reminds me of work!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Under 5000 reviews is super easy for me. I read many older and lesser-known books. For instance, Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920 and Jane Eyre's Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine's Story have 1 rating (mine!) and 61 ratings. I found them in a local used bookstores and used each for one of the talks I give on women's issues.

Currently reading Frances E. W. Harper: A Call to Conscience, about a Black novelist, poet, activist and suffragist who was famous in her time and is unknown today - book came out in Dec 2020, no ratings, or reviews. I'm getting 2 talks out of her story!

I actually don't read that much nonfiction but even in other genres there are plenty of options. Somewhere I saw a mention of 8 Faces at 3, a 1930's screwball comedy/murder mystery by Craig Rice, who was actually a woman. It was just republished and I got it from my library. It has 193 ratings.

[Alicia]

So I actually don’t like the 5,000 or under because it’s not reviews, it’s ratings. I like the idea of a lesser known book, but the only books on my TBR with less than 5,000 ratings are kids books or books that haven’t been released yet.

I have one, Infamous Lady, the story of Erzsebet Bathory, which I would love to read but can’t find anywhere except for $25+ online used!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Alicia wrote: "So I actually don’t like the 5,000 or under because it’s not reviews, it’s ratings. I like the idea of a lesser known book, but the only books on my TBR with less than 5,000 ratings are kids books ..."

Thanks for pointing out that it is ratings rather than reviews, I was doing the wrong one. I think ratings is better because some people like me don't review most of the books they read, just give ratings. But you're right, it makes it harder to find the smaller number.

[Shannon]

Alicia wrote: "So I actually don’t like the 5,000 or under because it’s not reviews, it’s ratings. I like the idea of a lesser known book, but the only books on my TBR with less than 5,000 ratings are kids books ..."

I have a ton of books with fewer than 5000 ratings on my TBR. I constantly read book reviews and have a lot of "best books you've never heard of" books on my list. I could add quite a few to any Listopia we put together.

[Nancy]

I like the wonders of the world but would also need ideas. My first thought is Into Thin Air about Everest but I've read it. Some of the ancient wonders work for mythology but we already have that prompt.

I'm sorry but I won't vote for another title prompt unless I really love it, and pleasant word is too broad.

For those of us who do ARC reviews, under 5,000 ratings would be easy.

Also I'm being pedantic here, but it's Beatles, not Beatle's, can that be changed/correct in the poll? I'd also rather see that as title rather than lyrics/theme but of course that's not up to me.

[Ellie]

I am not fussed either way on the 5000 ratings one, because I read a lot of British books and new releases, it's quite easy for me.

[Ellie]

Nancy wrote: "Also I'm being pedantic here, but it's Beatles, not Beatle's..."

The apostrophe placement was bothering me too. You're not alone.

[Milena]

Thank you both for mentioning that!

[Pam]

Besides the Beatles prompt, I like an unlikely friendship, pleasant word, one year time frame, and wonders of the world. I think we all have words that we are drawn to. I like the freedom of the pleasant word prompt to choose a word that resonates with you personally. I like the wonders of the world for non-fiction (history or travel) or location and also for doing some research. For unlikely friendship, I think of books with animal protagonists or young/old characters.

Lastly, I will aways vote for a book with illustrations! I love illustrations and wish more books had them.

[°~Amy~°]

The wording on this batch is a real hang up for me. The Beatles prompt, -ism, and "pleasant" word prompts all feel clunky to me, and the word "liminality" just grates me. Those are all my down votes for this week unfortunately.

I like BEES and Character that starts with A, T or Y. Under 5000 ratings is good because I like to give smaller Indy authors a chance.

I'm not sure where (or if) I will use my last vote. Unlikely friendship and takes place under a year both seem to cover a LOT of my usual reading already. The rest are fine. I can make them work so I probably won't vote either way on them.

[Sue]

Links to lists that contain books related to the wonders of the world:

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

https://www.ticketmachupicchu.com/bes...

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.tothevictoriafalls.com/vf...

Plus there are other lists with additional wonders of the world:

https://briefly.co.za/78577-12-famous...

https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/s...

[Beth]

I did wonder if some people might find under 5000 ratings too difficult. I was toying with 5k or 10k when I suggested it but found I had almost too many to choose from under 10k so that's why I went with 5. I was thinking it could be a way to incorporate the 'hidden gems' idea we had previously but also include new releases as an alternative option.

I have a lot of thoughts on this group of prompts so will have to narrow down my votes. At the moment I'm at about a 50/50 split of ones I like to ones I dislike.

[Katie]

Beth wrote: "I did wonder if some people might find under 5000 ratings too difficult. I was toying with 5k or 10k when I suggested it but found I had almost too many to choose from under 10k so that's why I wen..."

I apparently have almost 300 books on my TBR under 5K ratings, so it feels pretty easy to find them! 10K would be way too high, imo.
Newer books will work in a pinch if anyone feels that it is hard to find options.

If it gets in, I'd be happy to add to the listopia as well.

[Lizzy]

Shannon wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Will #9 just be shorted to a book that involves an ism if it gets on the list? The examples suggest it needs to be about prejudice, but I think it could also be used to read about soc..."

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