Help us choose the categories that the MR Literary Club will use to alternate for our July 2015-June 2016 cycle!
The poll will be open for seven days. Within that frame you may vote as early or as late as you like.
The vote is multiple choice. You may vote for as many or as few as you like.
There will be six winners. In the event of a tie, there will be a three-day single-choice run-off poll. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then we will combine the tied categories and be done with it.
NEW - When the poll ends, bonus votes will be manually added before determining final results. Basically, anyone who has commented in two out of the last six discussion threads is eligible for bonus votes, and everyone eligible will have any votes cast doubled. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to vote if interested in participating in the literary club whether eligible for bonus votes or not, and anyone interested in bonus votes is encouraged to become eligible as it doesn’t take much. Currently eligible:
Spoiler:
BelleZora, Bookpossum, Bookworm_Girl, caleb72, ccowie, desertblues, fantasyfan, Hamlet53, HomeInMyShoes, Lin2412, paola, sun surfer, Synamon
This includes posts in the January to June discussion threads.
*There are a few caveats to eligibility as outlined in
this post.
**If anyone feels there is any mistake in eligibility, please let me know before the poll is over. Once the poll ends and the tally with bonus votes added is announced, the results will be final.
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Six months of the next cycle will be devoted to rotating selections from our members, leaving six months of other categories. Excluding Lottery, we have 11 categories that have been used by us in the past: Biography & Memoirs, Contemporary, Highly Challenging, Non-Fiction, Obscure, Open, Plays, Poetry, Region, Short and Time Period. You can peruse past categories by month
here.
Another category has been suggested - Journey around the World. This would basically be an open category minus any authors from countries of all previous club selections. List of countries currently ineligible for this category:
Spoiler:
Map in Google Maps
Australia - 2
Kate Grenville
Geraldine Brooks
Austria - 1
Stefan Zweig
Canada - 2
Anne Michaels
John Hemming
China - 1
Jung Chang
Colombia - 1
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Egypt - 1
Naguib Mahfouz
France - 1
Henri Barbusse
Germany - 1
Thomas Mann
Ireland - 3
Colm Toibin
Frank O'Connor
George Bernard Shaw
Israel - 1
Amos Oz
Italy - 2
Alessandro Baricco
Dante
Japan - 2
Haruki Murakami
Yukio Mishima
Nigeria - 1
Chinua Achebe
Norway - 1
Henrik Ibsen
Philippines - 1
Jose Rizal
Poland - 1
Joseph Conrad
Russia - 3
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mikhail Bulgakov
Turkey - 1
Orhan Pamuk
United Kingdom - 14
Evelyn Waugh
G K Chesterton
Vera Brittain
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Lytton Strachey
Anthony Trollope
Siegfried Sassoon
David Mitchell
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Kazuo Ishiguro
Saki
E M Forster
Charles Dickens
United States - 9
E L Doctorow
T S Eliot
Willa Cather
James Welch
Ernest Hemingway
Dawn Powell
Walt Whitman
Laura Hillebrand
Vladimir Nabokov
Categories have been arranged alphabetically and listed in the poll, where half will be voted in for our next yearly cycle and half will languish.
So, what are your druthers? Will we have mostly the same categories as last year, mostly different or somewhere in between?