[2024] Poll 14 Voting

[Nike]

Oh, I know what book I would read if spices get choosen and that is The Price of Salt. It's on the listopia for spices-books so I took for granted that salt must be approved. Hm, it is a good question though. I didn't think about it not being quite a spice. And yet it's the most common "spice" of all.

[Alicia]

dalex wrote: "Alicia wrote: "My friend just sent me the new Leigh Bardugo novel and it's perfect for an insect on the cover.

"

Do you mean they sent you information about the..."

Sorry, sent me a promo post from Leigh Bardugo. I've never had an ARC, I'm very uncool lol

[dalex]

Alicia wrote: "Sorry, sent me a promo post from Leigh Bardugo. I've never had an ARC, I'm very uncool lol"

Gotcha. Thanks.

[dalex]

Emily wrote: "Voting doesn't close until tomorrow but we are already at 207 votes, which is pretty close to where we've been in the past."

Color me surprised! I was not expecting results today!

[Elizabeth]

I'm not in love with the winners, but they're also easy fills, so I can't really complain about that!

[Thomas]

If this result stands it’s great for me! But I won’t start celebrating till it’s official

[Jill]

I didn't vote for ether of them, but as Elizabeth said, they are both easy to fill

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

AHHHHH

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

my bad guys. I meant to post that in the mods group. I've deleted it, and results will be posted on Friday like they are supposed to be lolol

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

(is it Friday yet? my brain just wants it to be Friday)

[Jillian]

I wish it was Friday. I’ll delete my posts too.

[Elizabeth]

LOL can totally relate to wishing it was Friday. feels like it's been a longgg week already.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Also a note that the results could change... the close calls are pretty close so if we get 15-20 more votes like I'm expecting, they could shift. Keep your fingers crossed! And I appreciate y'all lol

[Nancy]

I didn't see anything, no idea what you're talking about.... *whistles innocently*

[Thomas]

Emily wrote: "Also a note that the results could change... the close calls are pretty close so if we get 15-20 more votes like I'm expecting, they could shift. Keep your fingers crossed! And I appreciate y'all lol"
Emily- Out of curiosity do you normally give the mods a 24hour heads up?

[Alicia]

Nooo I missed the leak. The suspense is even greater now! Can’t wait lol

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Yea, we usually talk in the mods group as we watch the votes come in and just confirm that what we are seeing is all in agreement. It has been known to change within the last 24 hours though. Last week's did actually.

[Thomas]

Emily wrote: "Yea, we usually talk in the mods group as we watch the votes come in and just confirm that what we are seeing is all in agreement. It has been known to change within the last 24 hours though. Last ..."

Really? Sorry i thought you posted earlyish last week because there were so few votes the last day you were confident the results wouldn’t change?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

... you're right lol I was thinking of the poll before that. One of our recent polls changed in the last 24 hours... poll 12? 11? Sorry I'm going to shut off GR now and go take a nap lol

[Thomas]

Emily wrote: "... you're right lol I was thinking of the poll before that. One of our recent polls changed in the last 24 hours... poll 12? 11? Sorry I'm going to shut off GR now and go take a nap lol"

Thanks

[Karin]

Elizabeth wrote: "I'm not in love with the winners, but they're also easy fills, so I can't really complain about that!"

I can't find the winners listed anywhere!

[Jillian]

Karin, Emily deleted the winners since the poll is still open. She meant to post it in the mod group.

[NancyJ]

Karin wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "I'm not in love with the winners, but they're also easy fills, so I can't really complain about that!"

I can't find the winners listed anywhere!"

The post was a mistake. I didn't see it either, which is just as well, since I hadn't voted yet.

[Karin]

Jillian wrote: "Karin, Emily deleted the winners since the poll is still open. She meant to post it in the mod group."

Okay, fair enough!

[Bec]

Alicia wrote: "Nooo I missed the leak. The suspense is even greater now! Can’t wait lol"

haha I agree...and I'm thinking it's only Thursday morning here and Friday retults posting usually means I'll see it Saturday so still ages away!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Psst: We are now at a record number of votes for this poll, and some changes have happened that may surprise those of you who saw the results I accidentally posted yesterday!

[Pam]

Emily - That’s great news to hear more members getting involved in the voting process! I hope I like the changes. I didn’t see your posting so I have no idea what it said!

[Alicia]

Ooh hopefully once the results are posted, we can know what they looked like yesterday to see the difference.

[Elizabeth]

I love that! gave it a boost to get everyone to get their votes in!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

And I know I've posted results early the last couple of times, but it will go to the bell tomorrow morning as I have a fun party tonight and I want to let every last vote to get in because it's close close.

[Thomas]

I thought there might be. Still I still have 10 possibilities that will work for my reading objectives so hopefully just one of them gets in.

[dalex]

Emily wrote: "Psst: We are now at a record number of votes for this poll, and some changes have happened that may surprise those of you who saw the results I accidentally posted yesterday!"

As long at the accidentally posted top two stay in, I’ll be happy. Haha.

[Thomas]

dalex wrote: "Emily wrote: "Psst: We are now at a record number of votes for this poll, and some changes have happened that may surprise those of you who saw the results I accidentally posted yesterday!"

As lon..."
Dalex- if not I’m going to have new sympathy with the producers of La La Land LOL

[Martha]

I'm hoping it means more than 2 prompts got in.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Emily wrote: "And I know I've posted results early the last couple of times, but it will go to the bell tomorrow morning as I have a fun party tonight and I want to let every last vote to get in because it's clo..."

You deserve to have fun and sleep! We're good waiting!

[Chrissy]

Did I vote? I can’t remember if I submitted my form!

[Tracy]

Emily wrote: "And I know I've posted results early the last couple of times, but it will go to the bell tomorrow morning as I have a fun party tonight and I want to let every last vote to get in because it's clo..."

Have a great night - you deserve it!

[Sonia]

Being Australian i feel like I should read more Australian authors so I like the Canadian/New Zealand/Australian promot. Has anyone completed the challenge before using Authors from just one country?

[Thomas]

Sonia wrote: "Being Australian i feel like I should read more Australian authors so I like the Canadian/New Zealand/Australian promot. Has anyone completed the challenge before using Authors from just one country?"

Well if it doesn’t get in there’s always the unsuccessful prompt category. I actually haven’t achieved that because I only completed it once and I definitely used Brits and Americans

[Anastasia]

@Sonia I did all Canadian authors one year. A few of the American centric prompts. A few adjustments were made.

[Bec]

Sonia wrote: "Being Australian i feel like I should read more Australian authors so I like the Canadian/New Zealand/Australian promot. Has anyone completed the challenge before using Authors from just one country?"

I've not done the whole challenge using Australian authors - but I'm sure it could be done. This year I have made a conscius effort to read more Australian authors (or at least know where the author are from) and have read 23 books by Australian authors - out of my total so far of 110 books read/listened. So probably still not as good as I would like.

[Anastasia]

Only part of my post made it in, so I will try this again.
In 2019 I did it using only Canadian authors. I had to change one of the prompts because it was an American award. I used an equivalent Canadian award.

It has influenced how I vote and made me aware of how American centric many of the prompts are.

[Bec]

Actually you have a good point Anastasia. Next year we have a book with an author from an African country. So that will make it impossible to have all authors from one country, such as Australia, unless you changed this to an author from an Austraian country. And I'm assuming the Edgar Awards are American based.

[Pam]

Bec - You could read J. M. Coetzee who is South African and Australian. And, Adrian McKinty from Melbourne is an Edgar award winner.

[GailW]

Because I had a ton of questions and a few hours to kill, I started a Listopia for Gen X Authors. The first 77 have the year the author was born in the notes section. There is only one book per author listed.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Emily, if you would rather not use this one just let me know and I can delete. Thanks.

[Bec]

Pam wrote: "Bec - You could read J. M. Coetzee who is South African and Australian. And, Adrian McKinty from Melbourne is an Edgar award winner."
And I just realised Ceridwen Dovey's bio says grew up in South Africa and Australia. I've put her in my Australian author pile, but that would count too!

And I really enjoyed Adrian McKinty's The Chain

[Meg]

Sonia wrote: "Being Australian i feel like I should read more Australian authors so I like the Canadian/New Zealand/Australian promot. Has anyone completed the challenge before using Authors from just one country?"

I did all Australian authors for the popsugar challenge a couple of years ago. It made it a really good challenge. I had to make minor modifications, eg changed muslim American author to Muslim Australian author

[Thomas]

Regarding Australian authors presumably there are authors born in Africa who are now Australian
Regarding Edgar Awards only one of its awards must be American

[Thomas]

Gail W wrote: "Because I had a ton of questions and a few hours to kill, I started a Listopia for Gen X Authors. The first 77 have the year the author was born in the notes section. There is only one book per aut..."

You’ve worked on this. If generation X gets in this could be very useful

[Nadine in NY]

Gail W wrote: "Because I had a ton of questions and a few hours to kill, I started a Listopia for Gen X Authors. The first 77 have the year the author was born in the notes section. There is only one book per aut..."


thanks for this - I am Gen X so I was intrigued by the idea, but it was just so hard to find an author who fit so I didn't vote for it. But this is a good resource.