2019 VOTING for QUARTERLY TOPICS

Well, all suggestions are in and it is time to vote. Thanks to all who made suggestions. Interestingly, themes dominated over countries by about 2:1 as topics for 2019. Let's see where voting takes us.

In addition to the usual quarterly reads, there are two suggestions for year long reads, so weigh in on those as well. These would run in addition to the quarterly threads.

You can vote "yes" or "no" or "undecided". If you change your mind, you can change your vote. You do not need to vote on all topics, but doing so certainly helps make the decision more of a group choice.

Voting will be open for about a week. There will be a message on the Reading Globally Message Board before it closes.

If you have comments, please post them on the planning thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/299379

TOPICS BY REGION

Would you like to read works by writers from Italy?

Would you like to read works by writers from Mitteleuropa (roughly defined as Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic/Slovakia, Austria) through all their various incarnations?

Please don't shout.

Would you like to read works by writers from the Mediterranean World, those countries surrounding the Mediterranean and linked by that body of water?

TOPICS BY THEME

Would like like to read about 1989 and All That: Europe after the Iron Curtain?

Would you like to read books by and about Women from around the World?

>3 SassyLassy:

Austria too. What with the name and all... ;)

Would you like to read books by and about Turning the Tables: Postcolonial Writers on the Colonizers?

Would you like to read Speculative Fiction from around the World (suggested as SF, fantasy and dystopias)?

Would you like to read books by authors from Regions in Conflict?

Would you like to read books by authors Writing from the Diaspora?
(The suggestion included "People from South Asia, Jews, the Irish, the Scots, West Africans, Armenians, Cantonese, ... - loads of possibilities")

Would you like to read books originally written in Dead, Dying and Indigenous Languages?

YEAR LONG THEMES

Would you like to read books considered Classics in their own Countries?

Would you like to take Your own Journey through Foreign Lands?

I think the last one would be a blast, tho since its our own 'journey', would it be difficult to have a conversation about whats read? How would that work, would we need to each have our own page?

>16 cindydavid4: Please see response here at 20: https://www.librarything.com/topic/299379

OK, closing the voting at 09.00 Dutch time on Saturday 5 January, as advertised. The final scores for the purpose of picking the theme reads are as below. The "winners" in each category are underlined.

Many thanks to everyone who voted!

TOPICS BY REGION
Yes 7 No 5 Undecided 1   Italy
Yes 9 No 3 Undecided 0   Mitteleuropa
Yes 9 No 2 Undecided 0   Mediterranean

TOPICS BY THEME
Yes  4 No 5 Undecided 1   1989 and All That: Europe after the Iron Curtain
Yes 10 No 2 Undecided 1   Women from around the World
Yes 11 No 1 Undecided 0   Turning the Tables: Postcolonial Writers on the Colonizers
Yes 12 No 3 Undecided 0   Speculative Fiction from around the World
Yes  6 No 1 Undecided 3   Regions in Conflict
Yes  6 No 2 Undecided 3   Writing from the Diaspora
Yes  3 No 4 Undecided 2   Dead, Dying and Indigenous Languages

TOPICS FOR YEAR-LONG THEMES
Yes 14 No 0 Undecided 0   Classics in their own countries
Yes  6 No 0 Undecided 5   Your own journey through foreign lands