A Sort of Book Event

Sept 10 - The Speed of Objects in Motion by holyfant, led by violethuntress (Angst stream)

Sept 17 - The Frost is All Over by Chryse, led by mars_daydream (Alt Universe stream)

Sept 24 - The Paradox series by wordstrings, led by birggitt (Alt Narrative stream)

Oct 1 - Hitting the Water at Sixty Miles an Hour by what_alchemy, led by ruth0007 (Wild Card stream)

Oct 8 - What to Do When Your Flatmate is Homicidal by hyacinth_sky747, discussion leader TBA (Humor stream)

Oct 15 - Given in Evidence by verityburns, discussion leaders mathe_roni and kizzia (Casefic stream)


These six genre streams are the ones that drew an overwhelming response, and these were the fics that came out on top in each of them (although some of those votes were very, very close!).  We realized early on that jumping straight in with thirteen streams was more than the mods would be able to handle, which is why we are running discussions only in the most popular categories this time around, but our long-term plan definitely involves expanding the list to include lots more streams. There were so many fantastic fics nominated, in every category, that it was hard to let any of them go by; but this is just the first round of what we hope will be a great many. So if there's a fic or a stream you wanted to discuss that's not on the list above, we welcome you to nominate it again for later rounds.

As always, we welcome suggestions, and we'll make a point of reviewing with all of you how the process has gone before we start the next phase.

How this will Work:
On discussion days, the discussion leads will make a post to kick off our conversation.  Please keep all conversation about the fic in that post, which will be locked to members only.  (You're obviously allowed to say whatever you like about whatever you like on your own journals, but we'd like to try to keep the conversation all in one place for ease of reading.)

Please remember that we are striving to be a wank-free zone - that is, while we encourage thoughtful and constructive criticism, we will not tolerate author-bashing, character-bashing, fic-bashing or reader-bashing of any kind.  Everyone's response to a fic is completely valid, and it is perfectly okay to not like one part of a fic while loving another.  You are absolutely allowed to be critical and questioning; you are not allowed to be rude or abrassive, or to put someone down for enjoying what you disliked.

We greatly look forward to the conversations over the next couple of weeks.  We're all going to have so much fun!