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I've had a few new ideas to play with.
The first is because June is the club's birthday month and we'll turn eight years old. So I was thinking something along the lines of 'birthdays, parties and celebrations'. This would be a pretty open topic but would focus on books with prominent celebrations of some sort, or perhaps a significant birth or birthday. Then there's a few meanings of the word 'party' that could be inspiration. And of course a book with any of those main words in the title, or even just a celebratory title, could work.
The second is something to do with 'new'. I always liked the Contemporary category we used to have but was trying to think how to transform it into a topic similar to what we usually have now, so I was thinking of the word new and some idioms that include it with its meaning being a focus of the expression that could be good topics:
-Dawn of a New Day. This one could not only include any new/contemporary books, but also books relating to 'dawns'/sunrises/etc., or books about a character or characters having a big change of life or emerging from tribulations, or maybe books about a societal change happening, or books with 'new', 'dawn', or 'day' in the title, or maybe simply books about hope or optimism since that's a major component of the expression.
-Something New Under the Sun. This is an alteration of the classic expression 'nothing new under the sun'. This would of course include any new/contemporary books as well as any books about something new, novel or innovative, and people could play with the 'under the sun' part to have nominations relating to the sun or the words 'under' or 'sun'.
Some other thoughts are 'a new light', 'ring in the new', 'that's a new one' or 'what's new?'. Another possibility is 'Fresh Blood' which even without the word 'new' would include any new/contemporary books but could also have something to do characters going into a new situation where they might be considered fresh blood, or maybe books with blood, violence, murder, etc. We could also go with simply 'New' as the topic if we're feeling minimalist.
If anyone likes any of these or has any suggestions/alterations/additions to any of these, or any separate ideas of you own, please post!
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