This kind of thing doesn't result in choices that are to my taste, but given that, I still lost any remaining respect for the process last year, when they nominated a book in the history category which had been published in February of the year before, as I knew because I read it when it came out. I emailed TPTB about its ineligibility, but it took them a long time to act and it was pulled very late in the process and replaced with the runner-up, which of course ruined its admittedly slim chances. Don't they even vet the selections?
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