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The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Nominations closed. Voting thread on Monday. Rebekah Send a noteboard - 09/08/2010 06:45:13 PM
Hi Rafonauts

Read And Find Out has been open now for nearly a year (30 August) so it’s fitting that we hold our inaugural RAFO Book Awards.

Submit your nominations for the categories either in a reply post or via NB to Jacob, Legolas or Rebekah (or all three). Nominations close on Friday 20 August. There’ll then be a week for voting, and winners will be Announced on Monday 30 August.

The 3 books with the most submissions will be the ones you vote on.

The RAFO Year is defined as: 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010

So get thinking, and get nominating!


RAFO Book Awards:

* Book of the RAFO Year

* Best Fantasy

* Best Sci-Fi

* Best Other Literature (basically, all the other genres)

* Best Non-fiction

* Best author blog/twitter

* Most anticipated book (as of yet unpublished)



RAFO SF/F MB Awards:

*Poster of the Year – as in the person who you feel contributes most across the board, in discussions, reviews, surveys, etc (not admins!).

* Best Book Club discussion (this of course includes the Russian Book Club) – you might have to search a wee bit, but it’s not too bad! Look in the category “Book Club” for the official ones, and use the search term “Russian Book Club” for the other.

* Best book review – again, you might have to search a little. The two categories to look through are “Review” and “Reviews”



We might be nice and provide a post below with links to the various reviews and book clubs that have appeared over the year.

Obviously, this is the first time we've done this, so things might need a little bit of tweaking.

But it's really about a little bit of "fun" and getting involved, so don't worry too much!
*MySmiley*

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
This message last edited by Rebekah on 22/08/2010 at 10:02:18 AM
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The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Nominations closed. Voting thread on Monday. - 09/08/2010 06:45:13 PM 1059 Views
Links to the Book Club posts for your convenience. - 10/08/2010 04:51:09 PM 630 Views
None of those books qualify for any of these categories. *NM* - 20/08/2010 10:20:10 PM 209 Views
Except - 20/08/2010 10:34:01 PM 441 Views
Question - 10/08/2010 04:53:06 PM 543 Views
Published. *NM* - 10/08/2010 06:30:22 PM 213 Views
Then I have nothing to contribute on that score, I think - 10/08/2010 07:35:30 PM 465 Views
That's too restricting. You expect us to have read books published in the last month? Come on - 20/08/2010 10:19:39 PM 517 Views
You've got books from August 2009 till July 2010. - 20/08/2010 10:43:22 PM 475 Views
It's extremely unrealistic to expect anyone other than people who get ARC's to read books released - 20/08/2010 11:30:25 PM 501 Views
Why do you keep talking about a month and months when the period is a year? I'm confused. - 20/08/2010 11:42:22 PM 463 Views
I suspect - 20/08/2010 11:52:16 PM 578 Views
The period is 0.5 months to 1 year, 0.5 months. - 21/08/2010 01:03:47 AM 677 Views
I still don't understand you. - 21/08/2010 12:57:53 AM 465 Views
She's just noting that most of the eligible books are hardcovers and thus aren't read by many - 21/08/2010 01:13:21 AM 608 Views
OK. - 21/08/2010 10:10:54 AM 428 Views
Don't think I've read enough to nominate - 10/08/2010 08:00:15 PM 487 Views
To you and Camilla both: you can limit your nominations to a few categories, you know. - 10/08/2010 08:29:59 PM 741 Views
I've nominated - 10/08/2010 09:05:31 PM 506 Views
Excellent. *NM* - 10/08/2010 09:24:00 PM 194 Views
Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine - 11/08/2010 07:50:12 PM 710 Views
Yes. But thanks for yours! They're rolling in steadily now. *NM* - 11/08/2010 09:03:01 PM 221 Views
I sure hope you get more than 15 or so - 11/08/2010 09:05:58 PM 459 Views
Re: Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine - 11/08/2010 11:35:30 PM 734 Views
I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year... - 11/08/2010 11:45:14 PM 449 Views
Re: I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year... - 11/08/2010 11:47:15 PM 608 Views
One difficulty: - 11/08/2010 11:51:16 PM 633 Views
Tricky, tricky - 11/08/2010 11:53:20 PM 760 Views
But, yes please - 12/08/2010 07:23:12 PM 464 Views
Okay. List of reviews of the past year: - 12/08/2010 08:49:18 PM 760 Views
Thanks. *NM* - 12/08/2010 08:51:37 PM 323 Views
I went by US release dates - 12/08/2010 12:18:08 AM 451 Views
I don't think I've read anything released this year. - 12/08/2010 01:05:57 AM 572 Views
Honestly, I don't really read too many..... - 20/08/2010 02:21:04 PM 596 Views

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