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11-29-2011, 11:56 AM | #363 |
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OK, Tom, I'll post there. But I see I may have been a day late and a dollar short with the "one big stickied thread for everything" idea.
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Some good work has been done on this, and I'm looking foward to next year with anticipation (particularly the Romance category, as wild horses wouldn't normally get me to read anything here, so it will be interesting to see what is recommended).
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I think you should change it to a single classics month because I can't wait to see what the next dead horse Jon hitches his wagon to.
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I would really love a month for "OMG I cannot believe someone published this book and please we should all read it and boggle together," but I suspect that (1) it'd be hard to find a category name and (2) not enough other people would enjoy the game. |
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11-29-2011, 02:32 PM | #367 | |
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^I've got one.
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11-29-2011, 03:35 PM | #368 | |
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* I think those mail order book clubs like the SFBC do alternate monthly selections as backup for their subscribers uninterested in the featured offering Y/N? |
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That poll was unfair. We never got a tiered vote.
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11-29-2011, 07:59 PM | #370 |
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The vote was fair enough. This is not a democracy; MR members don't have the right to set MR policies--we vote sometimes to give the mods an idea what most people would prefer.
Anyone is allowed to set up a book club. No one person owns this one; it's run by a rough consensus process. Voting may be used to decide some questions, but it's not definitive. I don't necessarily believe that there really is a 2/3 majority in favor of keeping two classics month--but I *do* believe that there isn't an overwhelming majority who are bothered by two classics months. There's a vocal minority who'd like it to change, and in order to get support for that, we'd have to convince a lot of the majority that it'd be replaced with something better. We have another thread to sort out the details of that. |
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I thought YA was the chosen replacement should one of the classic get to go away.
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Nothing's been chosen yet. I like YA as a replacement for one classic; I also like "Award Winner." And I wouldn't mind an odd category like "government document"--like the US constitution, or UN declaration of human rights, or various political speeches.
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Should one "classic month" go to the cornfield, then either YA or Award Winner would be a fine choice. Government Documents? I'd rather have the Cow book described above.
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Keep in mind that any changes that we're talking about in the categories won't take place until 2013. We've already voted to keep the categories as they are for 2012. That being said, I wouldn't at all be adverse to seeing one of the classic months replaced by something like award winners or young adult.
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