Posted by Dr. Bob on September 13, 2002, at 19:14:23
In reply to OK then. Vote for September., posted by Dinah on September 12, 2002, at 11:37:17
> You can look through the suggestions above and post the title of your nomination in the subject line, since that's Dr. Bob's official method. (Or I suppose that you can even check out the archives.)
I didn't mean to imply that that *had* to be the process... But maybe it does make sense to come up with something consistent. I hereby propose:
1. Give people a few more days to vote for the next book, say until midnight the night of September 17.
2. Then give people a month to read it, and start discussing it on October 17.
3. Meanwhile, the book to follow the next book can be discussed. In whatever threads people like, but maybe there should be one "official" one for nominations and votes, say, in this case:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/books/20020616/msgs/659.html
Since discussion about the next book might influence what people think should follow it, keep that vote open another week, which would be until midnight the night of October 24.
4. Then go back to step 2.
So that would be a 5-week cycle, how does that sound?
----
FYI, these are the books that I think have been nominated recently.
Timequake
by Vonnegut
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425165965/drbobsvirte00-20
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393320979/drbobsvirte00-20When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson
by Gene Smith
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0809436701/drbobsvirte00-20Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography
by William Lee Miller
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/037540158X/drbobsvirte00-20Everything That Rises Must Converge Short
by Flannery O'Connor
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374504644/drbobsvirte00-20As I Lay Dying
by Faulkner
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067973225X/drbobsvirte00-20GOOD NIGHT, MR. TOM
by Michelle Magorian
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006440174X/drbobsvirte00-20Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
by studs terkel
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565846923/drbobsvirte00-20Detour, My Bipolar Life in 4-D
by Lizzie Simon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743446593/drbobsvirte00-20Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689711735/drbobsvirte00-20The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553269631/drbobsvirte00-20The Color Purple
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671727796/drbobsvirte00-20Hell's Angels
by Hunter S. Thompson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345410084/drbobsvirte00-20On Waking Up, Alive
by Richard Heckler
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564553612/drbobsvirte00-20Darkness Visible
by William Styron
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679736395/drbobsvirte00-20Bob
poster:Dr. Bob
thread:659
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/books/20020616/msgs/668.html