NOMINATIONS are open NOW

Okay, folks. Rodney’s deal with the ladies sounds exciting, but we’ve got voting business of our own to take care of.

What do you say we meld our March meeting into the second-week-of-March meeting we’ll have with Fusion Bookclub. So I’m hereby officially opening nominations for the May meeting. As always, you are free to nominate no more than THREE books, beginning now. Please use the “comments” section below for your nominations. We’ll vote for one book, for May, next Wednesday, on January 14.

Now, just in case you’re wondering why we aren’t voting for two books this time, here’s why: I was really looking forward to voting in May for the next two books that we’d read in September and November. It’s always a struggle for me to carve time to read the November selection---I won’t speak for Hobbs, but he might well have a similar struggle---because there’s no break ahead of the meeting. For our January selection I have semester break to read it; for the March meeting I have spring break; the semester ends early enough in May for me to read the May selection; for the September meeting I have the summer. It’s only the November selection that forces me to cram an additional book into all the other reading I have to do in order to be prepared for class. But if we select the November book in MAY, then I can read that, too, over the summer. So, if you brothers don’t mind, I’d appreciate it if we could only select one book this time, for May, and then do another two-fer in May for September and November.

So: bring the nominations, mes amis. Bring them sooner rather than later, so brothers can figure out what they prefer, and we’ll vote on Wednesday. If a tie-breaker is necessary, we’ll do it at the meeting on Saturday, January 17.