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That's a faulty deduction Issybird.
Just because a month is not Classics and not PCML does not mean a Public Domain book would not be chosen. The numbers from the book club suggest at least one of the months would have been PD or at least a Classic (> 70 years old.)
Taking out Classics and PCML from 75 months of data, Public Domain was 16 of 66 months and Classic was 24 of 66 months. That will inevitably rise to 17/67 an 25/67 after this month. The book club has never needed extra help in choosing old books. The numbers tell us this.
I believe both sides are drinking Kool-Aid. I'd rather we read a book from an author we haven't tried yet or that's in a style we don't read much. It's why I didn't vote for Wharton. I enjoyed our previous Wharton selection. I would just rather read a new to me author. I might still read it, but it wasn't in my top five choices from the list.
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