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Old 06-24-2018, 06:58 PM   #16
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I like Back to School (based in or around a school). That's a perfect theme for September given that's when kids go back to school after summer break.
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Old 06-24-2018, 07:03 PM   #17
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I like Back to School (based in or around a school). That's a perfect theme for September given that's when kids go back to school after summer break.
September already has a school theme.
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Old 06-24-2018, 07:48 PM   #18
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"Gobsmacked" - books with surprise endings, or resolutions you didn't see coming ...

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Old 06-24-2018, 08:22 PM   #19
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Wait! I have a better idea!

I'm NOT Dead Yet! -- novels in which the protagonist(s) return -- literally or figuratively -- from the grave
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Old 06-25-2018, 12:08 AM   #20
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I liked Bookworm_Girl's suggestion of retellings in the other thread, so I will nominate "The Way I Heard It" for retellings, refreshes, reboots, and any other story/tale that needs a re-do. (Has anyone found a good TTM from Milday's POV yet? )

I like "Gobsmacked" though too.
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Old 06-25-2018, 03:07 AM   #21
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Well, I think BG was going to come in with Retellings, so maybe you should change your nomination to Gobsmacked. I can see people will be trading nominations soon and doing deals behind closed doors!
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Old 06-25-2018, 07:36 AM   #22
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As a result of a private communication, I want to emphasize that no nomination is written in stone, far from it. People are welcome to take back their nominations, improve them, make suggestions regarding other nominations and so forth. This is an ongoing and collaborative effort and we've got plenty of time before the September 1 deadline.

ETA: As I update the list, I might add either a tag or a topic, but these are possibilities only. Anyone, and certainly the original suggester, should feel free to offer changes.

ETA2: I'm using the terminology that the typical theme is tag: topic. So that said, as I posted nominations and added a potential topic, I've opened up the theme a bit, in the interest of not being too restrictive. Again, these are suggestions only.

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Old 06-25-2018, 08:00 AM   #23
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My suggestion is “Over the hills and far away”, which could cover books about travel, distant countries, or even nursery rhymes.
There seems to me to be something of an overlap between these two and I think some tweaking to get two distinct themes would be good.

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I saw a category listed in a Goodread's summer challenge that was "I feel a breeze" and was supposed to have nudists involved in some way.
Gone with the Wind, Mistral's Daughter, The Wind in the Willows, Naked Came the Stranger, Naked Lunch the Oz books for the cyclone and Dorothy Gale, Airs Above the Ground, The Tempest, pretty much anything by Heinlein....

Once you get started, it's hard to stop.
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Old 06-25-2018, 08:05 AM   #24
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Okay, pull mine out and I shall think of something else.
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Old 06-25-2018, 09:11 AM   #25
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I have a problem with Gobsmacked because although I generally like surprise endings, and although I devour books that tend to have them, I don't want to know in advance that there's going to be a whopper of an ending--just that knowledge is in itself a spoiler. I'd be reluctant to even look at a list of nominations for a category like that.
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Old 06-25-2018, 09:33 AM   #26
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Very gracious, Bookpossum.

issybird, if you wanted to add a ":topic" to Out of This World, I was thinking something like...

Out of This World!: Unusual settings

What I had in mind was something in which the peculiarities of the setting is important to the story.
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Old 06-25-2018, 11:42 AM   #27
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Well, I think BG was going to come in with Retellings, so maybe you should change your nomination to Gobsmacked. I can see people will be trading nominations soon and doing deals behind closed doors!
We'll talk if it comes to it.

And I hope most of the wheeling and dealing is in the open; that makes it more interesting.
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Old 06-25-2018, 11:48 AM   #28
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Can we change the tag to "retellings" or "re-makes" instead of "do-over"? Do-over has a time-travel connotation to it that I wasn't intending, especially since we've just had a time travel themed month.
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I have a problem with Gobsmacked because although I generally like surprise endings, and although I devour books that tend to have them, I don't want to know in advance that there's going to be a whopper of an ending--just that knowledge is in itself a spoiler. I'd be reluctant to even look at a list of nominations for a category like that.
You've persuaded me.
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Well, I think BG was going to come in with Retellings, so maybe you should change your nomination to Gobsmacked. I can see people will be trading nominations soon and doing deals behind closed doors!
Yes, I was going to nominate this one if Dazrin wants to nominate something else.
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