Nominations for Aug/Sept/Oct 2017

Hi all,

I'd like to try something a little different. Instead rushing nominations through at the end within only a couple of weeks' time, I'm going to start nominations now and leave them open until mid-June. Then we'll have from mid-June to mid-July to vote on the finalists. Hopefully this will work a little better than our current system.

Just a reminder on the nomination rules:

Any author chosen in the last 2 years (see the group wiki for the list) is not eligible again.

Previously nominated authors who didn't win can be nominated again.

You have up to 4 nominations of your own as well as 4 chances to second other's nominations. Any author who is seconded gets into the final vote.

Deadline: Let's all get our nominations in by June 15 so we can start voting and have plenty of time to get our reading selections in order.

>2 elena.trintas: Hi Elena, that's a fine idea, but we usually select one author and then group members decide which title from that author's works that they want to read. In other words, we don't all read the same title, just the same author.

I'll nominate ...

Wilkie Collins
Sarah Vowell
Alexander McCall Smith
Stephen King

Second Alexander McCall Smith and Stephen King

Nominate
Laura Esquivel
Ian Rankin
Pat Conroy

I'll second Laura Esquiveland Ian Rankin.

I would like to nominate:
David Guterson,
Wendell Berry,
Gail Tsukiyama and
Jhumpa Lahiri.
I will save my seconding until closer to the time of............

>8 rainpebble: Sounds good, just don't forget to come back and second! :)

I'll second Jhumpa Lahiri; I've been interested in reading her books for a long time now and just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Don't forget to nominate (or second) by June 15th!!

I'll second jhumpa Lahiri and Gail Tsukiyama

I'll second Wilkie Collins.

Looks like there will be several candidates to vote for, but I'll throw out a few last-minute nominations nonetheless in case anyone fancies any of these authors:

Jim Harrison
Elizabeth Strout
William Trevor

I'll nominate Helen Dunmore if it's not too late.

DANG, got caught up in R/L & didn't make it back to second anyone. :-(

Will I still be able to vote if I did not second an author?

Where do we vote?

Hi all, sorry I got a little behind, so voting is just opening up now.

>15 rainpebble: Yes, you can still vote!

>16 BookConcierge: Voting is here:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/260737