Name That Book Club
Aug
11
categories : Being Bookish
In case you live under a rock (or don’t follow me on Twitter) you may not yet be aware that I’m partnering up with Drea of Book Blather 
fame to put together an online YA book club. In case you’ve been buried super deep under that gorgeous rock of yours you also may not realize that we’ve been banging our heads against the wall trying to come up with a witty name for the group. We’ve even put out several calls to Twitter Peeps (who have come up with some great names) but ultimately have not yet latched on to a name we can’t live without.
So at this point you have to be asking, “what does this mean to me Michelle”? Well, what it means is that we’re gonna have a contest — name that book club style. With prizes and everything!
How does this whole naming the club contest work? Well between today and Sunday, August 23rd at midnight comment on this post with any and all ideas you have for the name of a YA book club. After August 23rd Drea and I will sift through the submissions and choose the winning name. From that list the top three contenders will be awarded prizes.
Prizes? Did someone say prizes? Yes, I did say prizes and this is how awarding them will work. First, there will be three different prizes:
- A signed ARC of Paper Towns by John Green and a copy of 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- A $30 gift card from Barnes and Noble
- A $15 gift card from Borders Books
We’ll select a 1st prize winner (who’s name we’ll ultimately adopt for the club) as well as 2nd and 3rd place runners up. In succession each winner will be able to choose from the list of prizes available. So….1st place gets pick of the litter and can choose what prize of the three they want before the others. Then 2nd place can choose from the remaining two and the 3rd place winner gets to keep the last one standing.
Make sense? Cool!
Michelle and Drea, you ask, is there anything we should know about as we’re thinking of a super cool cute and witty name for the club? Why yes….yes there is, thank you for asking. Here are some deets to keep in mind as you’re putting your thinking caps on:
- This will be an all inclusive book club, meaning if you like YA you’re in. Don’t care about your age your gender or any of that shtuff.
- A variety of multimedia will be used to conduct discussion (ie: blog posts, chat, forums, Skype, etc) but the specifics of all that is to be determined at a later date.
- We’ve already chosen the first book we want to discuss and it is a highly anticipated doozy of a fabulous novel that we think most everyone will love. Wait for it….wait for it….. yup you guessed it Catching Fire!
*squeals*
Can’t.wait.to.discuss.publicly.
Anyway, I digress. I think that should give you all enough to go on. Right? If not please let us know what questions you have.
Finally, once we have a name chosen more details about how the club will work will be given in a nice big fun kick off post announcing the winners!
So go forth and name young ones! We need your collective creativity.
The Brain Lair:
Hmm…I have a few…
YA Connection
Reading Power
Book Talk
Asking YA (why) – course if I have to explain prolly no good!
Talk to Me
YA(why) Read? – i kno i kno explaining again
August 11, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Jen Petro-Roy:
Let’s see:
Bookends
Risky Reading
Forever Young
YA Not?
YAnalysis
Open Book
On the Same Page
(I also LOVE the Age-Appropriate name that was suggested on twitter)
Books and Bytes (since it’s online)
August 11, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Heather:
Talking Volumes
YA Salon
YADDA: Young Adult: Debs, Dudes and Adults (couldn’t think of a witty word to use instead of Adults!)
The Literary League of Young Adult Readers
Pages and Sages
Raising Fences
YA Storyboard
Also like Age-Appropriate and YA-hoos! And Young Adultery, even though I know we can’t use it! It just makes me laugh.
August 12, 2009 at 6:07 am
Kristen:
YA Hooligans
Reading YA, every day
Mmm, I’ll keep pondering.
August 12, 2009 at 7:19 am
melissa @ 1lbr:
I couldn’t really think of any clever ones, but here is what I got:
YAk Online
YAkkers
YAk BooK
August 12, 2009 at 8:06 am
Pam:
I have to think about this. I do however love the first choice. I am so in this book club hehe.
August 12, 2009 at 8:23 am
GreenFairyLV:
YOUNG@HEART
August 12, 2009 at 8:26 am
Monica (aka monnibo):
YA-hooligans is great I think. Trish (Hey Lady!) might be using Young Adultery.
August 12, 2009 at 9:37 am
rhapsodyinbooks:
YA-Hoo!
(sort of like Monica’s, but shorter!)
August 12, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Michelle:
Jen from Jennsbookshelf wasn’t able to comment on this post (hoping to get it fixed today) so I’m adding the submissions she sent to me via DM @galleysmith on Twitter.
Young at Heart
Eternal Youth
Everlasting Youth
That YA Book Club
August 13, 2009 at 3:21 am
Yan:
Read Till YA Drop
YAk Away
RE: Read and Discuss
YA No Longer Just For the Y
I’m starting to think catchy phrases aren’t my fortes.
August 13, 2009 at 7:19 am
Meg:
OK, I’ll just toss some out there… please don’t hold their potential cheesiness against me!
Chat Out Loud
Say It All
YA For All
Books ‘n’ Buds
Yes, It’s YA
August 13, 2009 at 1:23 pm
SuziQoregon:
No new name suggestions, but I do love YA Hooligans!
The group sounds like a ton of fun and I’d love to participate when I can. Whether or not I can join you for Catching Fire will totally depend on how fast my library can procure and process what they have on order. I’m #8 on the list for one of 11 ordered copies, but it can take them a few weeks from release date to get a new book into circulation.
Looking forward to finding out what other titles will be on the agenda.
August 17, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Michelle:
As a passionate reader I like to use representation titles or words that I see in my favorite books.
Titles:
1. YA Town
2. City of YA
3. Divine By YA
4. The Luxe of Ya
5. Tantalize by YA
6. The Feast of YA
7. The YA Book Club
8. YA As We Know It
9. YA in The Spotlight
10. Summoning by YA
11. The YA Diaries
Peace
Michelle
ECT / Good luck with your new section
August 21, 2009 at 9:15 am
Ann-Kat (Today, I Read...):
OK, I tried to answer without reading any of the comments, but my will in weak and now my knees are rattling together because I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to come up with something half as awesome as some of the ones already mentioned. (Totally loving Young Adultery. LOL) But I’ll try.
1. Yet Another YA Book Club
2. YA is the New Black
3. Eternally Young Adults
4. Cirque du YA
5. The YA Water Cooler
6. The YA Insiders
7. Cliquing with YA
8. The YA Coterie
9. YA Mischief Makers
10. The Clandestine YA Reader’s Club
11. Learning Conversational YA
12. YA Speak
13. YA Revolution
There are probably some more prattling around in my head, but I think I’ve inundated you with enough ideas, huh?
As an aside, good luck selecting a name!
August 22, 2009 at 5:05 pm