I know for me availability has been my issue recently - both personal (I'm busy) and book availability (low).
I liked that we tried the "discuss immediately" option for the last few months but we haven't tried the option to delay the discussion a longer time to give people more time to get the book and read it. As-in, we would be nominating and voting for January right now instead of December but not reading till January 20. That gives 4 more weeks for people to get and read the selected book.
In order to limit the amount of work that WT Sharpe (and anyone else helping with the nominations) needs to do around the December holidays that would mean we should swap January and February's categories - have Mystery in January and have nominations for that right after the current ones (or concurrently) and then leave second chance, still on this year's books, in February. So the vote for second chance would still be in December and we don't need to worry about nominations then.
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