August Fiction open choice - Polls Open

[Carol]

This August we have an Open Choice month for fiction. What are you in the mood to read and discuss with other members?

Criteria:
1. Book must be by a female author (transwomen and women using male pseudonyms are women).
2. No books that have already been group reads within the past 3 years/36 months (check the group's bookshelf).
3. Do not nominate a book you have written or for which you are the publicist or lead marketer.
4. Consider availability. If a book is available in the US and UK (at minimum), and in paperback and ebook formats, more members can participate than if not.

To Nominate:
1. Give both the title of the book and the author's name when nominating to avoid confusion. Please use the 'add book/author' button when nominating.
2. Indicate whether you are willing or not to lead discussion if your nomination is chosen.
3. Maximum - one nomination per member.

Nominations close June 13.

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi - Kate

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Home by Larissa Behrendt - Michaela

[Kate]

I nominate The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi.

I can lead.

[Isabelle]

Hello, I nominate Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. No lead but casual conversation ;)

[Michaela]

I nominate Home by Larissa Behrendt. I can lead.

[Carol]

Today (Monday) is the last day for noms, if you’ve been contemplating submitting one. Open choice!

[Anita]

I'll nominate A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. I can lead, but I will be away the first week of August.

[Anita]

Nominations closed, polls open!
vote here

[Carol]

Anita wrote: "Nominations closed, polls open!

vote here
"

Thank you, Anita. This week 😳

[Anita]

Carol wrote: "Anita wrote: "Nominations closed, polls open!

vote here
"

Thank you, Anita. This week 😳"

It's been a wild year. I can't believe we're halfway through it.

[Anita]

We have a 3-way tie, let's break it by the end of the month, please vote
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

[Mj]

Hi Anita,

Posted in the Poll Comments also, so the questions wasn't missed.

Should A Psalm for the Wild-Built be in this pool. I think the 3 books who tied at 3 votes each were the top 3 in this poll and didn't include A Psalm.

Perhaps you need to start a new poll with these three books and zero votes as a starting point.

Any chance you could activate the SEE RESULTS option to avoid confusion. I can't tell what I voted for without cancelling or nullifying my vote,

Thanks for doing this.

[Carol]

MJ, thanks for your comment. You can click the "change your vote" link and (re)vote as you like. I have changed my vote many times in several groups and, in my experience, it either shows my vote (with the asterisk, or "cancels" my prior vote, and then I re-vote and my vote is captured. (my apologies that I can't recall which it is; i've always voted anew, so the process didn't matter as much to me since my new vote is placed within seconds.) At the moment, 4 members have voted for The Henna Artist, and 3 for our other nominees, but if that changes by midnight tonight, we may be reading something else in August. I thought it was a wonderful and varied slate of nominees, so it's a win for those reading as a group no matter the outcome. I understand that might not be a universal way of viewing polling and the like. Take care.

[Anita]

Hi MJ, I just extended the original poll rather than start a new one, and like Carol said you can just change your vote and vote for whatever you like. I encourage this anyways so members can feel free to change their minds. No need for a new poll. Just encourage members to vote!

[Mj]

Thanks Anita & Carol,

Just used to having a run-off with only those books who tied and not having the book or books that lost included.

I did know how to cancel a vote and revote........my query was really about activating the 'show results' function. In previous polls, when I clicked on the 'show results' button got a breakout of all the voting that had been done and who voted for what. Makes sense because Goodreads prompts us to makes suggestions to friends to join in and vote which is hard to do if you don't know who voted or for what book. Maybe this is no longer a GR polling feature or option. Just wondered if it was a feature that didn't happen automatically but could easily be manually activated.

Thanks for following up.