As Clear as Mud

It continues to be a strange, weird trip to bountiful, my friends.

First, based on the availability survey, we're meeting on Thursday, May 21, at 7 p.m. at the usual room and building at the University of Richmond.

Now. About the book vote. Here's the way the final tally played out:

Whatever It Takes [4 votes]
Why Black Men Love White Women [4 votes]
Hope on a Tightrope [4 votes]
Slumberland [5 votes]
Sweet Release [2 votes]

Now, you'll notice that Slumberland did get more votes than the others, but the preliminary nominating/voting process is in place to identify two finalists, from which we vote at the meeting to decide the actual selection. The only way the preliminary process can end up with a singular book selection is when one book is far and away the outstanding selection, making the meeting-vote unnecessary. Cleary, that ain't the case here.

So why don't we try this: let's try again, but this time we get TWO votes instead of three. We'll slice Sweet Release, and re-vote with only the four---four?---finalists available for voting. If one breaks out and is the far and away winner, that'll be our book. If, as seems far more likely, we have two or more bunched up the way we have four---four!---bunched up now, I suppose we'll just have to vote it out at the meeting.

So get to voting---no more than two votes, now---and we'll see what happens....