reading221b | Round 5 announcement (Reply)

Happy December, and happy Friday, everyone! We've only got a few more weeks to wait, and we're super-excited! About The Abominable Bride as well, of course, but mainly about the next round of discussions here at Reading221b.

Here are the streams for round 5:
Casefic
Adlock
femslash
Mrs. Hudson
Molly
genderswap
Historical AU

Two of these seven streams will be Leader's Choice; just about everybody we've heard from thought the Leader's Choice streams in Round 4 were a success, so we are going to keep it in the mix. The LC discussions will take place on January 20th and 27th. The other five fic selections will be determined through open nominations such as we've run from the beginning, and those discussions will fill out the back half of our calendar.

But which two will be LC, you ask? We don't know yet, either! Here's what we're going to do:
About two weeks from now, we are going to make a separate post inviting y'all to volunteer to run a LC discussion. Instead of just puting your name in the hat, though, we are going to ask you to tell us 1) which fic you want to discuss, 2) in which stream, and 3) why you think it will make for a good conversation. You can volunteer for ANY of these seven streams. After those two fics (and concomitant streams) have been selected, we will then open nominations for the remaining five streams.

Here is the full calendar for this round:

Monday, December 21 - self-nominations open for Leader's Choice discussion
Sunday, December 28 - self-nominations for LC close
Tuesday, December 30 - selections for Leader's Choice fics/streams announced
Monday, January 4 - open nominations begin
Monday, January 11 - nominations close, voting begins
Friday, January 15 - voting closes
Sunday, January 17 - Full reading schedule announced: leaders, fics, dates

Our first discussion (which will be one of our two LC streams) will launch on Wednesday, January 20th; new discussions will continue through Wednesday, March 2.

For those of you considering volunteering to lead a stream this time around: we are going to put up a separate post on the 21st. In the meantime, feel free to toss around ideas in the comments section here!