TIME TO VOTE!

Here are the nominations; please vote in the comments section below for THREE (3) of the following:

Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography

Will Haygood, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

Jimi Izrael, The Denzel Principle: Why Black Women Can't Find Good Black Men

Robin Kelley, Thelonius Monk: The Life and Times of An American Original

Bret McKay, The Art of Manliness

Jackie McMullen, When the Game Was Ours: Magic Johnson & Larry Bird

Richard Pryor, Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences

Sapphire, Push

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN

Okay, BMR?!ers,

nominations are officially open for May's selection. May is, you'll recall, a "wide-open, wildcard, genre-free" selection. As long as your nomination exists on paper and between two covers, it's a valid nomination. Nominations will be open, as usual, from now until Wednesday night. As of Thursday morning, we'll be voting on whatever we've got.

Now, I went back into the archives and looked at the original book selection process http://blackmenreadva.blogspot.com/2007/01/book-selection-process.html and discovered I've been doing it wrong for some time now. In fact, we're supposed to nominate TWO books, and then vote for THREE, rather than the other way around, as I somehow transposed it.

So. You brothers can officially nominate two (2) books starting now, by replying to this blog post. On Thursday and Friday we'll each have three votes on whatever gets nominated. (Sorry about the mix-up.)

Then on Saturday, March 20, we'll meet and discuss James McBride's The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother at our usual place at our usual time.

Summer Film Discussion

I'm suggesting Saturday, July 24, 2010---

Since it's summer, I'm going to assume that someone will have to miss; summer schedules are iffy, at best. But I'm throwing that date out there in the hopes that if we place it on our calendars in early March, we can try and schedule around it if something comes up in the interim.

(Oh, and remember, the protests of one of our number notwithstanding, WIVES and/or significant others and/or friends of any gender who you think might be interested ARE INVITED to this screening/discussion. Ahem.)

How's this date work for you guys? Do we have quorum?