The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

It's time to starting thinking about the bonus themes for the next year of challenges. The moderators and task creators base some of the challenge's tasks on the bonus themes. Other tasks will be based on seasonal motifs and some will be added just for fun.

Bonus themes we've used so far include:

2010-2011 — Asia, Australia, Europe, and Africa
2011-2012 — Earth, Fire, Wind/Air, and Water
2012-2013 — The Chinese Four Symbols
2013-2014 — A Year of Board Games: Clue, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Risk
2014-2015 — Mythologies of the World - Classical, Asia, Nordic, Americas
2015-2016 — A Year of Art: Impressionist, Pop, Abstract, Folk
2016-2017 — Wonders of the World: Ancient, Modern, Medieval, Natural
2017-2018 — That's Entertainment!: Animals, Museums, Theatre, Recreation
2018-2019 — Characters: Heroes, Villains, Rogues, Damsels
2019-2020 — Awards: Books, Music, Movies, Theatre
2020-2021 — Decades: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
2021-2022 — Wizard of Oz: Dorothy, Scarecrow, Lion, Tinman
2022-20233 — Decades: 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s

These themes have brought extra inspiration to the SRC and have given us some really fun tasks. Ideally, the overall theme would be composed of 4 related components, but feel free to get creative and submit your ideas here! This thread will be open for ideas until the end of the day on September 30. A poll will then be created from the popular, workable ideas in order to select our next bonus themes. We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

North, South, East, West.

East and West would be simple enough, North and South would take some thought, but as I think about it there are a few options

Off the top of my head:

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Bacteria/Virus
Print, Digital, Audio, Video
Mother, Father, Brother, Sister
World Sports: Football/Soccer, Baseball, Golf, Tennis
The rest of the planet: North America, South America, Antarctica, Islands
Cards: King, Queen, Jack, Joker (or Ace)
Mercury, Venus, Earth/Terra, Mars

Basic Needs - Food, Clothing, Shelter, Safety
Areas of Study - Sciences, Languages, History, Physical Education

Aesop's fables, mother goose, Hans Christian Anderson, Brothers Grimm

Harry Potter houses - Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, Ravenclaw

An Extraordinary Year: Cults, Cryptids, ETs/UFOs, Urban legends

Senses - Sight, Sound, Taste, Touch

MUSIC GENRES
Classical Pop rock Jazz Easy Listening


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello

The Four Dimensions:
Length, Width, Height, And Time.

States of Matter- Solid Liquid Gas Plasma,
Types of film- Silent, Animation, Biopics, Short

Rooms of the house - kitchen, bedroom, living room, garage

Wilderness, Rural, Suburban, Urban

Land, Ocean, Sky, Space

Wild Kingdom: Birds, Fish, Mammals, Reptiles

Classic TV shows: Leave it to Beaver; That Girl; My Three Sons; Bewitched

Book Concierge wrote: "Wild Kingdom: Birds, Fish, Mammals, Reptiles

Classic TV shows: Leave it to Beaver; That Girl; My Three Sons; Bewitched"

I have only heard of one of these shows prhaps we could mix in with some British TV - Gavin & Stacey or Doctor who come to mind

how about SITCOM, Drama, Reality and News - 4 main types of TV shows

Famous Harrys

Harry Potter - Harry Houdini - Prince Harry - Harry S Truman

Dee wrote: "how about SITCOM, Drama, Reality and News - 4 main types of TV shows"

like this

you all got me thinking now..lol

About types of music: Country, Rock, Classical, Easy Listening

Elements old world style: air, water, earth, fire

It's All Fun & Games: Outdoor Games / Board Games / TV Game Shows / Party Games

fins, fur, skin, and scales

The Round One bonus theme poll is open.
The poll will be open until the end of the GR day on October 14th.
The final round with the top contenders will be open from October 15th to the end of the GR day on October 20th.

The final round poll is open! Voting will remain open until the end of the day on Oct 20th.

Voting is over, and the bonus themes for 2023-2024 have been decided!

The winning category was "It's All Fun & Games: Outdoor Games / Board Games / TV Game Shows / Party Games"

Thanks to all who participated!