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This week, we are giving those reject suggestions one final chance.

Suggestions: The Suggestions That Didn't Make The Cut

For those of you reading in order, this is week: September 23-September 29. Don't forget to post in the A-Z title folders!

1: What are you reading this week?
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.

1: What are you reading this week? Lysistrata by Aristophanes

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? "A Greek or Roman classic

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now? It fit into a book I was reading for another challenge.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't. - a travelogue

1: What are you reading this week?
Rise of the Dragons by Morgan Rice

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with an animal on the cover

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
None, I just like this suggestion.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book picked for you by someone else

I chose this as - A book with a weird/wacky title.

1: What are you reading this week? Secrets of Pistoulet

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? The smallest book on my TBR list

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now? It just happened to fit.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't. Two books with the same title

1: What are you reading this week?
This week I am reading Beastly Bones

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with alliteration in the title

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It just happened to fit a book I REALLY wanted to read now xD haha

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book that takes place underwater

1: What are you reading this week?
This week, I read Slade House

2. What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book chosen for you by someone else

3.Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It just happened to fit!

4.Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
Any genre with something from nature in the title

1: What are you reading this week? Pasi ja Lennu. Tavalised inimesed by Ilkka Pitkänen
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? A book picked for me by someone else
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now? My friend suggested this book for me, therefore my book fitted this theme.
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A children's book written by an author who also writes adult books

1: What are you reading this week?
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
Chick Lit

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It just happened to fit.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book recommended by a famous person.

1: What are you reading this week? The Secret History
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? a campus novel
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now? I didn't suggest it but I voted on it a couple of times.
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't. An alternative history book.

1: What are you reading this week? Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? A book chosen for you by another member (this was actually the Book of the Month for February, but that counts..right? Technically the person who nominated it and everyone who voted for it recommended it!)
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now? It just happened to fit the book that I read.
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't. There's so many! I guess I'd have to pick "A book you feel everyone has read but you"

1: What are you reading this week? Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? 'A book where a main character has a special power'/'A book with a child as the main character '

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
Just happened to fit!

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book written by a)n author of your nationality

1: What are you reading this week?
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
Book with a strong female protagonist
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It fits a book that I have wanted to read for a while
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book of fiction that mentions, or is about a real person/ or someone who was a real person (this is probably my favorite genre)

1: What are you reading this week?


2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with a number in the title.

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
No. I didn't suggest any topics because I wasn't in the challenge last year. This is a book I'm reading for my IRL book club and this is where it fit in the reading challenge.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book you bought or will buy from an independent bookstore or from a charity shop. I'd pick this topic because it would give me an excuse to go buy more books at my local bookstore.

I just finished reading Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers.

2. I chose the reject suggestion "a book that inspires you". I am totally inspired and motivated to change my diet after reading this book!

3. After reading the book, I looked for a suggestion that matched it.

4. The suggestion I was planning on using and still like is the alternate history one.

1: What are you reading this week?
Elizabeth Is Missing

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with an elderly person as a main character. It's not the kind of book I would normally reach for, but I've heard really good things about this one.

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
I didn't suggest any topics since I only discovered this group after the list was already compiled. But this topic did fit a book that I really wanted to read.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
Well, I've ended up incorporating three into my challenge:
- A book with an elderly person as a main character, for this prompt
- A book published in a significant year for you, to replace "Reader's Choice"
- A book with a long title (8-10 words or more), as a Wild Card in addition to all other prompts, instead of replacing one

If I had to pick something in addition to those, I'd probably say "a book you judged too quickly." I think it would be really interesting to see if the book really was as good/bad as we thought.

1. What are you reading this week?
Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with a day of the week in the title
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
I started reading it two days ago but just noticed the category today
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book based on an ancient epic

Right now, I am reading Serowe, Village of the Rain Wind by Bessie Head.

I chose to read something for a book published the year I was born. I did not suggest this topic; however, it fit in with another challenge for another group.

I just noticed the children's "choose your own adventure" book. I used to love those, and if I had seen it earlier, I might have picked it.

1: What are you reading this week?

I read The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy for this prompt.

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?

I chose "A book with 'diary' in the title" as my rejected suggestion.

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?

I admit it--I had a different rejected suggestion picked out for this week, but since I read this book and it had the word Diary in it, I figured I'd use it.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.

I would have liked to do "A book you bought or will buy from an independent bookstore or from a charity shop," just because I love supporting places with cheap books!

1: What are you reading this week?
Night Film
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
I chose " A book with a word in the title that describes a time of day/night"
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It just fit a book I was reading and wanted to count in the challenge
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
"Two books with the same title" would have been a fun one to do.

1: What are you reading this week? Ashfall by Mike Mullin

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? Apocalyptic theme

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now? I did suggest this option, but I changed from my other option to fit this book.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't. My other suggestion- a book with a day of the week in the title

What are you reading this week?
03/30/2016

What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with the name of the week in the title.

Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
No, it just happened to fit the book I decided to read at the time.

Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book that you feel like everyone has read but you.
OR
A book that you started but never finished.

1: What are you reading this week?
I read The Dead Repent: A Zombie's Story

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with non-human characters.

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
I read through all the rejects and found a few topics that really stood out to me then I went looking for a great book to match any one of those categories.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't
Oh I don't know. I am super happy with the ones that were chosen so to pick one to add, I'd have to take one away. I'm not sure that I want to do that! :-)

1: What are you reading this week?
11/22/63 by Stephen King

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
"Book with a date in the title"

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
Just happened to fit! I have already forgotten which reject topics were my suggestions...

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
I thought the "unreliable narrator" one was a pretty interesting suggestion. But there are so many!

1: What are you reading this week? Just finished Four Meals for Fourpence
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? A book with a number in the title
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?it just fitted from my reading list.
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't. There were a few but then I did like what was finally chosen

1: What are you reading this week?
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A short non-fiction

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It just fit a book on my TBR

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A western

Lisa wrote: "1: What are you reading this week?
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A short non-fict..."

I'd like to recommend a Western -
I really laughed while reading this book - hilarious

This week I read Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard. The rejected topic I chose was "a book where a main character has a special power". This just happened to fit this book really well and I'd been dying to read it since it came out. I think the "read a book published the year you were born" is a really neat idea.

1. What are you reading this week?
Black-Eyed Susans, by Julia Heaberlin

2. What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book recommended by a friend .. A lady in work actually brought me this paperback .. We often recommend each other titles, but I can't actually lend her any as I mostly read on Kindle.

3. Did you suggest the topic originally, or did it just happen to fit?
It happened to fit.

4. Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year but didn't.
Hmmm .. There are loads actually, but I would say a book with a date in the title..

What are you reading this week?
Tampa


What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with a "taboo" subject.

Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
Both. I suggested the topic because I had this book in mind when I made the suggestion, and decided to stick with this as my topic for this week because I already had a book picked out.

Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
I really loved a great majority of the topics. I felt comfortable enough with all of the topics that I choose to do the Topic Discard Challenge this year, even reading for the topics I didn't care the most for.

If I could only pick one other topic though, it would have to be "from a genre you don't normally read", because I do like to challenge myself.

1: What are you reading this week?
A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow by George R.R. Martin

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book that was turned into a TV series

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It just happened to fit this book, I'm rereading the first three books so I can get up to date in the series.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book that you started but never finished

1: What are you reading this week?
After the crash by Michel Bussi

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book by an author who is from a country different than your own
Michel Bussi originally wrote this book in French.

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
I did really want to read this book and it didn't fit in any of the categories I have left!

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
Lots of really great choices, but if I had to pick one: A book with an unreliable narrator

1: What are you reading this week?
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?

A book by an author who is from a country different than your own. Margaret Atwood is from Canada.

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?

I ran across The Blind Assassin while browsing in the library and felt like reading it. It fit great in this topic.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.

A campus novel - I originally was going to go with this topic and would read The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I'll probably read this book sometime, but really wanted to read The Blind Assassin.

I'm reading Summer of the Midnight Sun this week.
The reject suggestion was a book with a word in the title that describes a time of day/night.
It fit the book I was reading this week.

1: What are you reading this week?
Let's Go Play At The Adams'

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book that raises your heart rate (any genre).

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It just happened to fit the book. I really wanted to read the book and the category fitted it perfectly, as it turns out because I'm only 18 pages in and it's definitely already raising my heart rate.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
There were so many good ones that I wish had made the list, it's too hard for me to pick a favourite.

1: What are you reading this week?
The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book released in 2016 which is an author's debut novel:
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
Not my suggestion, but it was easily my first choice because I KNEW there had to something good to fill it.
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A retelling

1: What are you reading this week?
This week, I read A Court of Thorns and Roses.

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
Any genre with something from nature in the title

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It just happened to fit this book and I was re-reading it before checking out the next one in the series.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
Re-read a favorite. :)

1: What are you reading this week?
The Girl with All the Gifts

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book with an end of the world, apocalyptic theme

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
Exactly the second option.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
A book with less than 100 reviews

What are you reading this week?
The Frozen Sky by Jeff Carlson

What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
a book set on another planet

Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
No, I am a recent convert to the challenge.

Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
an alternative history

1: What are you reading this week?
Ross Poldark

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book that was made into a TV movie, series, or mini-series

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It fit into a book people kept telling me I had to read. So far, it's good. Although better when you can see it with Aidan Turner.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
So many so picking from those above- Re-read a favorite or A book you started but never finished

1: What are you reading this week?

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?

A book with a number in the title

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?

Catch-22 was one of the books (along with The Color Purple and The Shining) which I intended to read in 2016 prior to making my list and was simply looking for a topic in which to fit it in. So that very first time that I clicked the link for discarded topics -> boom: top of the list, number in title, decision made.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.

Oh what? I need to read the rest of the list. Hmm.

I'm going to go with: A book you started but never finished. I've put a couple of those into my list this year but I always feel bad about not finishing a book and wouldn't mind a reason to go back and rectify another.

1: What are you reading this week?

The Art of Racing in the Rain

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
An animal as a main character.

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
Just happened to be one of the topics I found most interesting and worked well with this book which I'd heard great things about.

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
I really wanted the topic for a book longer than the longest book you read last year (in 2015) to make it.

That's funny! I chose the same book for this week! I just finished it, and I really liked it!
Kelly wrote: "1: What are you reading this week? Ashfall by Mike Mullin

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? Apocalyptic theme

3: Did you suggest this topic o..."

I'm reading The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric, for this week. The rejected topic was 'A book set in the country of your ancestors' (in my case, Bosnia). I read this years ago, and loved it. So this topic just leapt out at me as the perfect opportunity to reread it. I think I would have enjoyed the travelogue too.

1: What are you reading this week? Live Wire
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? A book you bought in an independent bookstore
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now? fit a book I wanted to read!
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't. I'm not really sure what some of the other topics were

1: What are you reading this week?
Games People Play

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A book recommended to you by a friend

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It fit with the book I was reading

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
Same title two books.

1: What are you reading this week?
Pax by Sara Pennpacker

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
A children's book with a character's name in the title

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
It happened to fit the book I wanted to read

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
I personally like trying to find one that has to do with the cover, so some kind of abstract color choice in the cover or word in the title.

1: What are you reading this week? Baby Doll
2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book? A book released in 2016 which is an author's debut novel
3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now? It fit a book I wanted to read
4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't. There isn't one; I enjoy finding books to fit a given weeks topic so happy for any of them and appreciate the times I can fit in books I am really want to read.

1: What are you reading this week?
The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price (kid book) & The Smell of Other People's Houses (YA)

2: What "reject suggestion" did you choose to help you select your book?
I also chose "A book released in 2016 which is an author's debut novel" (aka a 2016 debut)

3: Did you suggest this topic originally, or did it just happen to fit a book you REALLY want to read right now?
No, I didn't suggest it but found it interesting and unusual. It also help me to read more 2016 books :)

4: Pick ONE other topic that you wish made the cut this year that didn't.
An alternative history book

1. Joe Steele by Harry Turtledove

2. I don't remember the "reject" reason. I just know that it fit some category of rejection. After reading it, I think it deserved to be rejected.

3. This book was selected by my sci-fi book group.

4. A book about animals would have been a nice category.