NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN

Submit your nominations now, my friends, for the book we're going to discuss the third Saturday in May. May is, as you'll recall, the wide-open, wild card, genre-free selection---if it's got pages and is between two covers, then it's available for nomination.

Please nominate no more than two (2) books. Nominations will stay open until Wednesday night, then we'll vote on the nominations for the next book selection. If there's a tie---and only if there's a tie; even a one-vote margin is a legitimate victory---we'll break the tie by secret-ballot vote at the meeting.

By the way, I'm going to be out of the country when the group meets in May, so let's consider where the meeting can be held in my absence. I hope we can have a play in place by the meeting this Saturday.

Black Men Read Program at Richmond Elementary School

Just FYI.


http://www.wtvr.com/entertainment/wtvr-annual-black-men-read-program-looks-for-a-few-good-men-to-read-to-students-20110202,0,5678734.story

Book Talk Podcasts Posted

I have posted a link to the podcasts of our book talks. The link is at the top of the blog under the blog title and Google ad. Look for BMR?! Book Talk Podcasts. The latest book talk will be added to the list once Hobbs does his thing.

Invitation to a Reading

I'm officially inviting all of Black Men Read?! to attend a reading by Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, on February 4, 2011 at the Library of Virginia: click here for more info

My copy just arrived today; I can't wait to dig into it. For a sense of what she's writing about---and her approach---check her out on Radio Open Source, and on Fresh Air, among other places.

You can tell from what a terrific interview she is that she'd be a good person to hear read.

In fact, why don't we make a night of it? Wilkerson's reading from 6-7:30. Whoever's interested could also float west on Broad Street to the First Friday Artwalk, and then we could have dinner at Mama J's Kitchen or something...

Whether you can make the extracurriculars or not, I hope you can make the reading. I'm expecting her to be great....

TIME TO VOTE!

Here are the books, in alphabetical order, nominated for our March meeting. Please vote for no more than three (3) books:

1. Actor & Gentleman by Louis Gossett and Phyllis Karas
2. A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir by Toyin Faloba
3. Decoded by Jay Z
4. I Am the New Black - Tracy Morgan
5. Pryor Convictions by Richard Pryor

My nominations for March are:

1. Actor & Gentleman by Louis Gossett and Phyllis Karas
2. A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir by Toyin Faloba

Aubrey

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN

Nominations are hereby open for our March, 2011 selection. Nominated books should be MEMOIRS this time. You are free to nominate two (2) books. Nominations will stay open until Wednesday night. On Thursday and Friday we will vote on the nominated books.