CP Literature Draft - Workshop

[Eastern Girl]

Awesome stuff! 20 GMs now.

Is that enough or are you dead set on 25 trout?

[sadora]

Originally Posted by octothorp

Question about the graphic novel / comic book category: if you choose a comic book, do you choose a particular issue, or a whole series? I'm not sure which would work better.

Also, can you use a book of poetry for the literature categories? My vote would be yes, although I'm not sure anyone would take advantage of it.

If we chose to do that my suggestion would be to only allow poetry novels rather than simply poetry anthologies. Perhaps there could be a poetry category added?

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by sadora

If we chose to do that my suggestion would be to only allow poetry novels rather than simply poetry anthologies. Perhaps there could be a poetry category added?

Definitely single author collections only--though I think longer single poems, so long as they're sufficiently famous on their own, should also count.

[RougeUnderoos]

None of that sissy poetry stuff for me, but I do know a good book of limericks.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

None of that sissy poetry stuff for me, but I do know a good book of limericks.

I live pretty near Nantucket, you know... and I have to say, people here talk about it a lot less than you'd think.....

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Awesome stuff! 20 GMs now.

Is that enough or are you dead set on 25 trout?

I'll keep it open until Friday afternoon, so we can start by the weekend.

GMs (20/25)

troutman
FanIn80
habernac
octothorp
jammies
Iowa_Flames_Fan
rogermexico
Aeneas
Burninator
Eastern Girl
RougeUnderoos
Jagger
sadora
driveway
JerzeeGirl
Bobblehead
RatherDashing
liamenator
Ro
garypowers

[Circa89]

I can't read too well but at the suggestion of another GM I suppose I will give it a whirl. But like I said the only thing I have ever read is the names on the Stanley Cup and the ingredient list on Swiss Chalet Dipping Sauce.

[RougeUnderoos]

That's the spirit.

[GirlySports]

I don't read enough in English
I hope to learn from the list that's created!

[garypowers]

Originally Posted by Circa89

I can't read too well but at the suggestion of another GM I suppose I will give it a whirl. But like I said the only thing I have ever read is the names on the Stanley Cup and the ingredient list on Swiss Chalet Dipping Sauce.

The key is can you MAKE the dipping sauce? Mmmm... mysterious rib dipping sauce...

[Antithesis]

I'd like to be in as well, need some ideas of new books to read.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

What will the protocol be for picks--a jacket photo and a quick synopsis?

[Ronald Pagan]

Count me in.

[troutman]

GMs (23/25)

troutman
FanIn80
habernac
octothorp
jammies
Iowa_Flames_Fan
rogermexico
Aeneas
Burninator
Eastern Girl
RougeUnderoos
Jagger
sadora
driveway
JerzeeGirl
Bobblehead
RatherDashing
liamenator
Ro
garypowers
Circa89
Antithesis
Ronald Pagan

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

What will the protocol be for picks--a jacket photo and a quick synopsis?

Anything goes, but at least:

Author, title and year of first publication

Picture of cover (if available)

Then, whatever is interesting:

Synopsis of book

Literary critic's review

youtube video may be available in some cases (books that have been made into films or documentaries, book reviews)

Your 8th grade book report

Dewey Decimal number

[Bobblehead]

troutman, can we have a recap on the suggested categories, as they now stand?

[troutman]

[under construction]

Taking octothorp's list, and modifying by your comments, we propose:

Canadian Lit
American Lit
European Lit
World (non-european) Lit
Children's Lit
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Fiction - Wildcard

Non-fiction - memoir / biography
Non-fiction - scientific
Non-fiction - travel
Non-fiction - historical / political
Non-fiction - philosophy / religion
Non-fiction - Food and Drink
Non-fiction - wildcard

Graphic novel / comic book
Humour / Satire
Anthology / Short Stories
Picture-book / Coffee Table book (photo or illustration)
Pre-20th century or Poetry

deleted trade fiction (don't know what that is)
deleted language/communications, replaced with Food and Drink
added Poetry to Pre- 20th Century
added coffee table to picture-book

Are the first 8 fiction only?

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by troutman

[under construction]

Taking octothorps list, and modifying by your comments, we propose:

Canadian Lit
American Lit
European Lit
World (non-european) Lit
Children's Lit
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Fiction - Wildcard

Non-fiction - memoir / biography
Non-fiction - scientific
Non-fiction - travel
Non-fiction - historical / political
Non-fiction - philosophy / religion
Non-fiction - Food and Drink
Non-fiction - wildcard

Graphic novel / comic book
Humour / Satire
Anthology / Short Stories
Picture-book / Coffee Table book (photo or illustration)
Pre-20th century or Poetry

deleted trade fiction (don't know what that is)
deleted language/communications, replaced with Food and Drink
added Poetry to Pre- 20th Century
added coffee table to picture-book

Are the first 8 fiction oly?

Sounds good. I had thought that the first ones would be fiction only, but I think it should be fairly open, otherwise. For example, Canadian Lit can be any fiction book by a Canadian author, including ones that fall into another category such as sci-fi.

Trade fiction is I guess more of a publishing industry term for mass-produced genre fiction, or what you might otherwise think of as cheap paperbacks. I had thought of it as including Mystery and Horror, but also extending to Romance, Crime and other genres. Probably trade fiction wasn't the best category name, but I think it's still worthwhile to have a mystery/crime/horror category.

I like the rest of the changes.

[troutman]

We could combine SF/Fantasy, and add Mystery/Horror etc?

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Is there a way to link cover images without downloading them and then hosting them on photobucket? I'm wondering whether we can somehow link the images you'd find on amazon.com or librarything.com--or something like that. Downloading all the images and then uploading them to photobucket seems like kind of a pain.