[2023] Poll 7 Voting

[Nancy]

Right? Unfortunately my younger son didn't like the teacher, otherwise it would have been a great class.

[Lin]

Pearl wrote: "A book written by two or more authors ?

I know about Christina Lauren. Are there any other pairs that write under one name?"

My favorite are Liv Constantine and Greer Hendricks along with Christina Lauren.

Books with Multiple Authors - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Nancy wrote: "My kids' middle school called it Literacy.

The high school had a curriculum change a few years ago so instead of English 1-4, they can take things like Mythology and Sci-Fi or Graphic Novel. I wi..."

Everything kids do is way cooler than it was back in our day!

[dalex]

When I was in school, boys took Industrial Arts and girls took Home Economics. My best friend was a boy and desperately wanted to sew and cook. I desperately wanted to play with power tools. We petitioned the school board and after more than a little uproar, the policy was changed that students could choose which class to take regardless of gender.

[dalex]

Lists of books with more than one author

https://bookriot.com/books-with-two-a...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/w...
https://offtheshelf.com/2016/09/the-m...
https://www.tckpublishing.com/books-w...
https://cml.bibliocommons.com/list/sh...
https://www.epicreads.com/blog/ya-boo...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[Miles]

Upvoted 5 and struggled to decide which 3 to downvote as not reallly disliking the others.

[Judy]

I like the first two lists. They both have books I liked and books I want to read. I like all of the first 6 suggestions actually, and the very last list of travel books. I want to read from all the world, so I'm considering the idea with 2023 miles and Australian awards.

I can't decide if I like "Wild" books or not. Weird and wild are very subjective, and I don't know if I want to take a chance on books other people found weird. It could be fun to loosen up and take some chances.

[Bec]

dalex wrote: "We petitioned the school board and after more than a little uproar, the policy was changed that students could choose which class to take regardless of gender..."

I love this! Great work in changing the policy.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Judy wrote: I can't decide if I like "Wild" books or not. Weird and wild are very subjective, and I don't know if I want to take a chance on books other people found weird. It could be fun to loosen up and take some chance..."

Honestly, I would do it literally with a book with wild in the title. I'm not keen on judgement prompts

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

dalex wrote: "When I was in school, boys took Industrial Arts and girls took Home Economics. My best friend was a boy and desperately wanted to sew and cook. I desperately wanted to play with power tools. We pet..."

Good for you! Industrial Arts sounds awesome, and literally everyone should have to take Home Ec.

[Marta]

I don’t really know what “home ec” is - I sort of have an idea but never took it. In Hungary we had a class called something like “Practical”, which seems like a combination of shop and home ec, because we had instruction in woodworking and metals and wiring, but also cooking, knitting and embroidery.

We also had Hungarian instead of English, with two sub areas: Literature and Grammar. So I think those would be admissible.

[Bec]

Marta wrote: "I don’t really know what “home ec” is - I sort of have an idea but never took it. In Hungary we had a class called something like “Practical”, which seems like a combination of shop and home ec, be..."
Yep you are right. Home ec is cooking and kitchen safety/hygiene. When I went to school it also included sewing, but my kids don't do that.

[Nancy]

Finally voted, I went 5 up, 2 down. I'm really not excited about this list of prompts though.

[Pam]

I voted completely different than I would've a few days ago by only upvoting 3 and downvoting some I planned to vote for. I started watching The Sandman TV series and I think the graphic novels would work for the paranormal or supernatural abilities prompt, so I voted for it. Science was a yes since I'm always open to learning. I don't normally like lists but was intrigued by Tookie's list. It's not the same favorites or awards lists we normally see. Australian awards I didn't vote on because I like the idea but a lot of Australian books are hard to find in the US unless they are popular authors. At least, that's been my experience.

[Alicia]

Even if Tookie's list doesn't make it, it inspired me to start reading The Sentence and I already love it. Highly recommend!

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Alicia wrote: "Even if Tookie's list doesn't make it, it inspired me to start reading The Sentence and I already love it. Highly recommend!"

Then my work is done!
I still hope it makes it through though! So many books that look amazing I might not get around to reading otherwise, even if someone does an indigenous prompt

[Tracy]

Re: the Disability Prompt —

I just found a book that promises to be exactly what I had in mind for this prompt when we first started discussing it weeks ago in Wild Discussions. It's non-fiction, which I know not every likes, but this does not sound dry at all.

This is a memoir (which I much prefer over autobiography or biography), in the format of a set of essays. My initial idea did not intend that a memoir be read, or that it be in essay form, that's just how this book is. BUT, it IS written from the point of view of the author, who became disabled as a child. It's about treating people as people, and not their disabilities. It's about the realities of living with a disability, both good and bad.

I had another book I was going to read for this (Talk Talk by TC Boyle, which I will find another slot for either way), but now I plan on reading Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig if the "Disability Prompt" gets voted in. Honestly, I plan on reading this either way as well.

[Michelle]

Tracy - I have listened to the audio of Sitting Pretty. I enjoyed it.

[Tracy]

Glad to hear that Michelle! You never know when you suggest a book you haven’t actually read yet.

[Tracy]

Tracy wrote: "Re: the Disability Prompt —

I just found a book that promises to be exactly what I had in mind for this prompt when we first started discussing it weeks ago in Wild Discussions. It's non-fiction,..."

I'd also really like to read a novel with these sorts of discussions/views, and from the preview, it sounds like Talk Talk might be that book.

[Pearl]

dalex wrote: "Lists of books with more than one author

https://bookriot.com/books-with-two-a...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/w...
https://offtheshelf.com/2016/09/the-..."

Linda wrote: "Pearl wrote: "A book written by two or more authors ?

I know about Christina Lauren. Are there any other pairs that write under one name?"

My favorite are Liv Constantine and [a..."

Thank you Linda and Dalex.