Sun Surfer, I in general like your ideas, and certainly think it is worth while to give it all a try. Some thoughts I have though, including considering some of the subsequent comments:


Isn't “Contemporary” a “Time Period”? I know that some people prefer not to read literature written before they graduated high school so I like the idea of a month devoted to Contemporary literature, but maybe then drop that time frame from the “Time Period?”

Love the idea of multiple choice and open voting!

With regards to the “Region” category, now that the procedure for dividing the world into regions is done (complete with that spiffy map), maybe we could just rotate through regions, selecting a random region not yet covered, until all have been selected once?

I like Paola's suggestion about including all active members in the lottery unless they decide to opt out.

The reduced time frame for nominations and voting seems like a good idea to me. Those who are likely to participate generally follow things close enough to be able to get there input posted in a timely manner anyway.

Starting the discussion thread as soon as the selection for the month is made sounds good to me. The question becomes should those who tend to finish the book quickly make generous use of spoiler tags, or just let people realize that the whole thread maybe full of spoilers from the start?


I personally think limiting selections to those available as an ebook is a dumb idea since this has nothing to do with the quality of the book as literature. I would anticipate that this would be a particularly restrictive requirement for books not originally written in English. I know that others have string opinions the other way. Maybe this is one idea worth putting to a vote among those who have been active members over the past year?