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.
Robin Kelley, Thelonius Monk: The Life and Times of An American Original
ReplyDeleteJimi Izrael, The Denzel Principle: Why Black Women Can't Find Good Black Men
Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences by Richard Pryor
ReplyDeleteThe Art of Manliness by Bret McKay
Jackie Mcmullen, When the game was ours: Magic Johnson & Larry Bird
ReplyDeleteWill Haygood,
SWEET THUNDER: The Life and Times
of Sugar Ray Robinson
I nominate the following:
ReplyDeleteThe House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood - Helene Cooper
or
Miles: The Autobiography - Miles Davis
Daniel: I nominate Push by Sapphire. We had dialogue about discussing the movie, Precious. Maybe we could read the book and then get together to watch and discuss the movie later this spring.
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