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sun surfer · 03-06-2012, 01:04 AM

Help us select the work that the MR Literary Club will read for March 2012!

Nominations will run through March 9th.

The category for this month is:

Lottery - A member is chosen by random to select the month's work

To be eligible, a member needs to have voted or nominated a work in each month since the last Lottery, so December, January and February.

Each participant may nominate oneself only. There are no seconds, thirds or so on.

To nominate yourself, simply post your nomination. It will be helpful if you also provide instances of your votes and/or nominations for December, January and February (simply name one work you voted/nominated for each of December, January and February).

A member will be randomly chosen from the nominees on March 9th, using a randomisation generator.

After the member is chosen, I will start a new vote thread, and the winner should post their choice for the March selection. The member may choose any work they consider "literature", except for works chosen by either book club in the last two years.

Once the selection has been posted, it will need TEN confirmation votes to declare it our monthly selection. The criteria for confirming is simply to agree that the work is considered or seems to be "literature", whether or not it is appealing to the one confirming.

Voting will be open for three days. Once the selection has ten confirmations, the process will be over for March's selection.

However, if the selection does not receive enough votes, then we will revert to a "second-chance" month. The five non-winning selections with the most votes from previous months will be put to a short vote and the winner will be our selection.

What is literature for the purposes of this club? A superior work of lasting merit that enriches the mind. Often it is important, challenging, critically acclaimed. It may be from ancient times to today; it may be from anywhere in the world; it may be obscure or famous, short or long; it may be a story, a novel, a play, a poem, an essay or another written form. If you are unsure if a work would be considered literature, just ask!

The floor is now open!

03-06-2012, 01:04 AM	#1
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