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[2023] Poll 5 Results
Yay for the recipe prompt! I did downvote the UNESCO one because I feel like I don’t have any books I’m interested in set in those cities. Hopefully the listopia will hope me find something down the road.
It is mixed results for me. I’m happy that the recipe made it. I’m disappointed in the W prompt it was one of my least favorite prompts when we had it last time. I accidentally down voted the location one, I meant to down vote a different one so I’m really neutral on it.
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Based on earlier discussions about a few of these prompts, I’m kind of surprised by some of these results (even though I known it everyone follows the discussions). I thought for sure the UNESCO Cities wasn’t going to make it (but I’m glad that it did!), and I thought Hopepunk would have at least been a close call. I really liked that one and was excited to use it. Now that it can’t even be suggested again, I guess I’ll use the genre page to at least pick a title that also fits another prompt.
Happy with recipe words, sad about hope. Did people think it had to be a hopepunk book? Or does everyone just love misery 🤣I've ran out of books with questions in the title, so that's going to be tough. Lots of W words but not questions.
I didn't love the UNESCO cities but I'm sure I can find something in one of the UK ones.
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I was also surprised by how few "who what when where why" book titles I had... most of them on my list are nonfiction, which is fine.
I'm assuming the W books doesn't have to have a question, it's just one of the question words. Or at least that's how I plan to interpret it. I'm mixed on these, happy about the word in the recipe but I didn't vote for the others, though they weren't downvotes for me.
I hope the India one gets resubmitted.
I don't think the W prompt has to be a question, does it? It just has to be one of the W words, right?I'm very disappointed about the Unesco prompt. I'm not a fan of location prompts and the cities on this list seem super obscure. I think the only ones I've even heard of are Paris and Philadelphia (and maybe one or two others)!
I'm not sure what to do with the recipe prompt. Once you include titles, ingredients, and directions it's an extraordinarily broad prompt.
I had five upvotes this round and none of them made the list. Very sad.
This year for the Buzzword challenge we had one of the 5 W words in the title, but not necessarily asking a question. I am gathering that this prompt is a question the title?Buzzword this year also had pronoun in the title and September is related to light/dark, so maybe I will already have some inspiration.
Happy about recipe, not thrilled with UNESCO, kind of ambivalent about the 5 W’s. 🤷♀️
This is already a record year in terms of my upvotes getting in. I’ve been really frustrated the last few years because I felt I was always voting against the current! I upvoted the recipe prompt, and the two bottoms were ones I downvoted. Disappointed the India/Pakistan prompt didn’t get in.
I’m ambivalent about the other two prompts that got in, but I’m sure I’ll find something for both.
The prompt is worded "a book with one of the five "W" questions in the title". Not one of the 5 W words. If that's not what the prompt is meant to be then it's a bit late to change it but it's really not obvious that it isn't meant to be a question.
“As w is the 23rd letter: a book with ONE of the five w questions ( who, what, where, when OR why) in the title “That was the actual suggestion, I think we need to add “words” in to replace what was dropped by not including (who, what, where, or why). “A book with one of the five “w” question words in the title.”
Questions= who, what, where, when, or why
dalex wrote: "I don't think the W prompt has to be a question, does it? It just has to be one of the W words, right?I'm very disappointed about the Unesco prompt. I'm not a fan of location prompts and the citi..."
What list are you looking at for UNESCO? The one on Wikipedia doesn’t have Philadelphia or Paris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of...
The prompt said "questions in title" so that is what I thought it was and I did upvote it. I don't think our lists is using it as a question.
Steve wrote: "What list are you looking at for UNESCO? The one on Wikipedia doesn’t have Philadelphia or Paris."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organiz...
"The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization of 250 cities in which sites of the UNESCO World Heritage list are located."
Ooh I wasn't expecting my UNESCO prompt to make it (I was half expecting it would end up in the bottom!) so that is a nice surprise. I also voted for recipe word so glad to see that one in there. :)
So the W prompt actually means - a book with a title that is a question beginning with one of the W words"? I thought it was - "a book with one of the five W QUESTION WORDS in the title."
Big difference.
ETA: Very few, if any, of the books on the listopia so far are question titles. They just contain the word in the title.
@dalex the UNESCO prompt is referencing cities of literature specifically, the heritage cities is a different (and much longer) list
The cities of literature are different to the world heritage sites.
I would venture a guess that most people who voted for the W prompt did NOT think the title had to actually be a question. I'm interpreting it as "question word".ETA: interpreting it as an actual question could be a BIO option
Poll 5 was mixed results for me. I'm happy about the UNESCO city prompts as researching settings is my favorite kind of research. If I downvote something it is usually a title prompt, so I'm not excited about having two of them. I'm glad we have lists for prompts because I'll be depending on those for recipe word in title or W question word in the title.I'm sad Hope/hope punk and eye-opening or thought provoking were at the bottom.
I loved both the close-call prompts and hope they get resubmitted.
Honestly from the title of the listopia everyone else is going with not a question. I'll just have to reword it when I make my plan.
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So sad more didn't make it through- I hope all the prompts that can get resubmitted! I'm shocked hopepunk was at the bottom, it seemed so popular. I don't think people looked at the booklists-- you could have (re)read Anne of Green Gables!
I went to university in Norwich, England and would love to find a book that takes place there! Otherwise who knows what city I'll do- I refuse to do an obvious one like Seattle or Dublin!
dalex wrote: "So the W prompt actually means - a book with a title that is a question beginning with one of the W words"? I thought it was - "a book with one of the five W QUESTION WORDS in the title."
Big di..."
I believe the prompt suggested was suppose to be “a book with one of the five W Question Words in the title” (the wording of the listopia also confirms this) but when it was rewritten to get rid of the information in parenthesis it now sounds like it has to be an actual question.
It was a bit confusing how it was originally written and still is confusing.
I will be going with the intent of just picking a book with a question word. I really don’t want to deal with the mess of people needing to make sure they have a noun and verb so that is a complete sentence not to mention punctuation.
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That being said, I have no issue adding "W question words" in there, since I think that was the original intent of the prompt. I'll discuss with the mods and get back to y'all... feel free to message me if you feel strongly one way or another.
To be fair, I'm not someone who generally overanalyzes the wording of a prompt when I'm selecting books, so I'm going with not a question whether we change the prompt to add in "words" or not.
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I thought it was - "a book with one of the five W QUESTION WORDS in the t..."
The original suggestion does not have the word "Words" in it... the only change we made as mods was to remove what was within the parenthesis, which we always do for the final listing.
Now, I wrote the listopia description based on how I interpreted the prompt (meaning it was not required to be an actual question) so that could be adding to the confusion?
Emily wrote: "Jillian wrote: "dalex wrote: "So the W prompt actually means - a book with a title that is a question beginning with one of the W words"? I thought it was - "a book with one of the five W QUESTIO..."
five w questions ( who, what, where, when OR why) in the title
( who, what, where, when OR why) = words
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So when I added books to the UNESCO list, I added a note saying which city it was but it doesn't seem to have gone onto the list? So a waste of time? Or is there some secret.
I'm really happy with these results!!! I up-voted "W" and "recipe" and while I did not vote for "UNESCO" I do always appreciate an international category, and I know the Listopia we create will help me find a book.
Pamela wrote: "LOL-- I just sat through brunchtime adding books to listopias,,,,So when I added books to the UNESCO list, I added a note saying which city it was but it doesn't seem to have gone onto the list? ..."
I see them, Pamela. Like you added "Sons and Lovers" with the note "Nottingham UK."
I think many people do not read the threads and perhaps were not familiar with the term "hopepunk"? At any rate, I learned something even if it didn't get through (I voted for it after seeing the discussion).Perhaps a book of "utopia or dystopia" would be more popular - that way, people could pick hope or misery depending on their preferences.
As w is the 23rd letter: a book with ONE of the five w questions ( who, what, where, when OR why) in the titleThis is the original suggestion made by Thomas
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I voted for the UNESCO prompt as it included Edinburgh and I have a lot of books set there.
The problem is the word "questions" - A book with one of the five W questions in the title
If you take out the modifier "one of the 5 W" the prompt is "a book with a question in the title."
It really needs to be "a book with one of the five W question words in the title," imo.
I voted for the W one (since it has a connection to 23) and the recipe words.I'm disappointed in UNESCO as I think the cities they picked are weird. Who ever thought Quebec City is the Canadian city that should be on this list has clearly never been to Canada. Fortunately, Dublin is there or I'd have nothing for this prompt.
Like many others, I interpreted “W questions” as “W question words” (because what are those words even called as a group?) and not that the title itself had to be a question. UNESCO city seems more limiting than I’d generally like but it’ll be a great excuse to read a Dublin Murder Squad book. 😁
I wasn't sure how I felt about the India prompt but now that I have had some time to find books that look interesting I would like to see it re-submitted.
I am happy the recipe one made it in, the other two are fine just seemed a little easy (I am always happy to have some of these). Sad that a book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs a lot but have no clue why - I guess it seemed like it could be a challenge or easy but would require a little bit of thought. Hope it gets submitted again.
The 2 bottoms were in my bottom.
I struggled with a book that is eye-opening or thought provoking because I don't really know what is going to be eye-opening or thought provoking until it is so hard to know what book would fit until it is read and I like to read in order.
I was watching a cooking show and they had the contestants make a cookie salad which was some random made thing to be cleaver but was hard for the contestants to make because it lacked a real context. Hopepunk feels a little like this to me, I looked at the lists and they just seem to be books that people thought were hopeful so why not just be that. In all of that I lost sight of the fact I could just read a hopeful book.
Is "all" a cooking term? I am mystified by some of these listopia books (e.g., All the Light We Cannot See, All That I Am). I'll have to find one of my own using a term that I associate with cooking (and "all" is not one of them).
Joy D wrote: "Is "all" a cooking term? I am mystified by some of these listopia books (e.g., All the Light We Cannot See, All That I Am). I'll have to find one of my own using a term that I associate with cookin..."And here I was debating if a spoonful would work.
Joy D wrote: "Is "all" a cooking term? I am mystified by some of these listopia books (e.g., All the Light We Cannot See, All That I Am). I'll have to find one of my own using a term that I associate with cookin..."maybe it is for recipe that says to mix all ingredients together?
Joy D wrote: "Is "all" a cooking term? I am mystified by some of these listopia books (e.g., All the Light We Cannot See, All That I Am). I'll have to find one of my own using a term that I associate with cookin..."I can see ‘light’ for light brown sugar (it is too much of a stretch for me). I’m not sure about ‘all.’
Interesting discussion of how different our interpretations of the same phrase can be!
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So when I added books to the UNESCO list, I added a note saying which city it was but it doesn't seem to have gone ..."
Cool! I like the idea of knowing the city.... but might be just me!
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I'm disappointed in UNESCO as I think the cities they picked are weird. Who ever thought Quebec City is the Canadian c..."
they don't get picked, cities submit applications.
I like it because it isn't the big NYC-London-Paris choices.
Joy D wrote: "Is "all" a cooking term? I am mystified by some of these listopia books (e.g., All the Light We Cannot See, All That I Am). I'll have to find one of my own using a term that I associate with cookin..."Yeah I don't know about that one. Some of the book choices on there have me scratching my head looking for the recipe word. My daughter has critiqued my own choices, she says "crush" (as in The Epic Crush of Genie Lo) is not a recipe word. I pointed out that you have to crush graham crackers to make a cheesecake crust, you use crushed tomatoes in a sauce ... but she remained skeptical.
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Pamela wrote: "I'm shocked at the reaction to the recipe word- it's pretty much the food prompt with additional verbs added"I'm seeing a bunch of different reactions (joy, dismay, confusion, etc) so I'm not sure which one is shocking?
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Top:
A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title
Bottom:
A book involving hope or hopepunk
A book that is eye-opening or thought provoking
Close Call
A book with an interracial relationship
A book set in India or Pakistan
Polarizing
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs
Listopias:
A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title
The next round of suggestions will open Sunday morning as soon as I wake up CST (probably between 7 and 8 am).