Sometimes once the nominations are in I can pick out the book that will probably win the month before the vote even begins. And then there are months like this. I would've never thought that Fanny and Stella would've won a vote or even come close, and I'm happily surprised. The timing is certainly apropos.
I will admit though that this is what I couldn't help but think of when I first saw the nomination:
I thought the selections in general this month were very good. I was most rooting for The True Believer or Stories from Rwanda, but quite a few of the nominations I'm very interested in and I'm happy with the winner. There were also three - A Night to Remember, Gulp and Sleepwalkers - that I wasn't particularly interested in at first, but upon seeing their high votes and reading the vote discussion, I read up a bit more on them and became interested in all three of those as well, heh. In the end I think I would've been interested in reading almost all of this month's nominations.