Theme Nominations for Group Reads

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

The purpose of this thread is for members to suggest themes they would like to read about each month. I will create a poll and the themes will be selected based on how many votes they get. The theme with the highest votes will be our theme for October, and the next highest, November, and so on.

Are there any themes you'd like to nominate?

[Traci]

I have never read a spy thriller. (except for one Bond book) Something I'm interested in trying so that's what I'll nominate.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

I've been talking up the James Rollins books, I'd nominate one of those. I think that would be in the same category as "National Treasure" with Nick Cage.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

So in broad terms, you are nominating a treasure-hunting story, Hugh?

[Laurel]

Those both sound superb!

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

hmm... yes, I hesitate to say that because they are really much more than that on both counts, but I don't want to over parse things.

As long as we are talking in broad terms, that's a yes.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

What category would you use to describe them?

Of course, we can do plan B and just do random nominations, but I thought it might help to have a theme to guide choices. What do you think?

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

oh, your a tricky one Lady D.

That's not easy. (and I said yes to Treasure Hunter theme)

Historical Myster-suspense? (which sounds lame now that I type it) maybe Historical Conspiracy?

or in this case... treasure hunting sounds pretty good about now.

[Jason, Gone but not forgotton]

I'd like to suggest military/war adventure!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Okay so far we have:

Spy
Treasure Hunt
Historical Mystery/suspense
Military/War Adventure
Military Science Fiction
Organized Crime
Western
Police/Law Enforcement
Private Detective
Survival/Against the Elements of Nature

Any other suggestions?

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

If I can make two sugguestions, Miltiary Science Fiction (i.e. The Lost Fleet etc.).

[Traci]

Organized crime?

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

The Temple Dogs! good idea Traci!

[Gokhan]

How about Westerns (example: Berrybender series) for completeness? Not that i will vote for it over historical mystery.

[Traci]

I don't think westerns would win right away but it would be fun to read one. I' m really looking forward to this botm because there's a very high chance it'll be a book I haven't read, maybe even a genre. I haven't had much experience with action/adventure.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

How about Police/Law Enforcement and Private Detective?

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

I second the idea of Police/Law Enforcment idea. Lots of good ones.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

That's a good list to start. We can make some more nominations when we run through these, unless someone is dying to add to the list.

I will try to get the poll up on Sunday, so get your noms in before that.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Works for me.

[Jason, Gone but not forgotton]

Looks great to me too!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

The poll is up for the Monthly Read Themes. It will close on September 2nd, so get your vote in.

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/53...

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

I guess you know that spy won the poll for the October group read. We are going to have to have a runoff on the other themes since we had plenty of ties. We'll do that in October. If you think of other themes, feel free to make suggestions here.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

If we go with The List of Seventhen "Young Sherlock Holmes" would be good, or maybe the most recent Sherlock Holmes, movies.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Are you nominating List of Seven for the November read, Hugh? If so, I'll add that to the nominations thread for November. Just wanted to make sure.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Yes, I am. The List of Seven was a lot of fun to read. It's historical setting, very action oriented with a touch of romance, (not too much!) and enjoyable humor (victorian Humor but enjoyable). That's my nomination.

I read it so long ago, It's fuzzy, I want to read it again!

[Jason, Gone but not forgotton]

I've been wanting to read List of Seven for some time now!

[Traci]

I read it awhile ago too and just remember how much I loved it.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

and The LIst of Seven is now available on Kindle, though it's still a full priced book, (Paperback cost).

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

In order to get ready for the December read, we need to figure out our theme. We had loads of ties, so I'm going to run the theme poll again. Here is our list. If you want to add a theme, please feel free. I will try to get the new theme poll up on October 31 or thereabouts.

Spy October read
Treasure Hunt
Historical Mystery/suspense November read
Military/War Adventure
Military Science Fiction
Organized Crime
Western
Police/Law Enforcement
Private Detective
Survival/Against the Elements of Nature

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Sounds like a good plan to me.

[Jason, Gone but not forgotton]

Me, too!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Theme poll is up. Closes on Nov. 7th.

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/56...