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And the Silver Goes To…

January 25, 2013 By 36 Comments
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The Pyrite version of silver is nickel, right? Wait. What? Apparently we are just as bad at chemistry as we are at math. Used under CC license from flickr user yaybiscuits123.

Honor Vote Time!

Honor book voting policies are weirdly absent from the RealCommittee P&P, but we checked in with a number of friends and colleagues, including at least one former RealCommittee Chair and one former RealCommittee Admin Assistant to make sure we had it down. And so we are ready to put the honor book voting procedures into black and white for all to see.

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Get Ready, Get Set, READ!

December 2, 2012 By 17 Comments

Well, folks, the results are in! We voted down the Pyrite Nominations to create a shortlist, and here it is:

columnChartExport Get Ready, Get Set, READ!I don’t think there are any real surprises here, except maybe the margin; Code Name Verity pretty much swept it.

Your task now, should you choose to join the fun (and regardless of whether you voted on the shortlist) is to read and/or reread these 10 books between now and mid-January; in the last week or two before the RealCommittee announces their Printz winner and honor titles, we will discuss each of these and put them all to a vote to determine the Pyrite Printz* winner. It will be interesting to see what happens, especially as I suspect the readership on some of the middle block of titles is still relatively low.

In the meantime, we’ll continue working our way through our still fairly large queue of books from the September contender list.

For those who want to see the full voting results, click through.

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Pyrite Poll!

November 29, 2012 By 4 Comments

polling station 300x225 Pyrite Poll!

The poll is up! I realized, belatedly, that actually it should probably have been that everyone votes for 5, and the top ten most selected titles are the Pyrite* shortlist. Next year, hopefully we’ll get the math bits figured out. Data nerds, feel free to give statistical collection tips if you have any.

But hey! Now you can vote for ten! And write-in an extra book (it needs to be one that didn’t make the nomination pile, obviously).

So go! Vote! Come back tomorrow for a return to our more regularly scheduled content, and Sunday to see the shortlist for the Pyrite.

**The Pyrite Printz, or Pyrite, is the Someday My Printz Will Come mock Printz deliberation, and should not in any way be confused with YALSA’s Michael L. Printz Award, often referred to here as the RealPrintz or Printz. Our predictions, conversations, and speculation about potential RealPrintz contenders and winners reflect only our own best guesses and are not affiliated with YALSA or the RealPrintz committee.

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Data: Readership Poll Results

October 23, 2012 By 11 Comments

With 120 results, here are the results!

(If you haven’t taken the poll, you can still access it here. If the responses increase significantly, I’ll post updated data, of course.)

Google Forms plays badly with anything, and Excel hates me, so this is just the straightup data for now. I’ll try to play with the Excel files until we have actual usable data (at least sorted by most read to least), but that could take me ages so I thought I should post what I could. With apologies.

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Checking In: What Have You Read So Far?

October 14, 2012 By 22 Comments
Readers Diary 300x259 Checking In: What Have You Read So Far?

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So, maybe it’s just that we haven’t had a lot worth saying, or maybe it’s just that the seriously chatty readers (hi, Elizabeth!) are muzzling themselves for various reasons. But comments have been pretty mellow, and we’re thinking there might be a readership question.

Also data is cool and we’re curious what the general readership is of these critically acclaimed titles.

So won’t you take 3 minutes (maybe 3.5, depending on whether you need to cross reference with a reading journal of some sort) and fill out this Google Form about readership? (It refused to embed, so apologies for the redirect.) We’ll post results in a week or so for anyone who’s interested.

And then come back tomorrow for the first of the Q2 posts!

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