<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>The Force is not with you; you've got de Bodard listed twice. I'm guessing you meant to list Doris Lessing for one of those -- which one does Excel's randomizer change?<br></div><div><br></div><div>In the future, I suggest not trying to juggle numbers; ISTM that we could perfectly well use golf-style ranking (low score wins).<br></div><div><br></div><div>/CHip<br><br></div>
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Subject: [nesfa-reading-group] The ACTUAL Selected Reading Group Books<br>
for May, June, July & August, 2021<br>
From: Louis Galvez III <<a href="mailto:nesfalou@gmail.com">nesfalou@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Sat, March 13, 2021 9:39 am<br>
To: NESFA Reading Group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:clerk@nesfa.org">clerk@nesfa.org</a><br>
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<div name="messageBodySection"> <div dir="auto">Hey <br> <br> First, my mea culpa<br> <br> I apologize. It was pointed out to me that the data I posted wasn’t correct. I resisted. I pushed back. I was positive my data had been correct. It turns out, I was incorrect and I was incorrect. In other words, the data I posted earlier wasn’t correct and I was also in error when I insisted that my data was correct. I feel like the person who handed out the wrong envelope just before someone yelled, “The Winner is LaLa Land,” on the Oscars. <br> <br> A special thanks to David G for pointing out my mistakes. And an extra apology to him for my doubting him.<br> <br> Let’s try again. <br> <br> The books we’ll <strong><em>ACTUALLY</em></strong> be reading and discussing are:<br> <br> May: <strong><em>Seven of Infinities</em></strong> by Aliette de Bodard<br> June: <strong><em>Leviathan Wakes</em></strong> by James S.A. Corey<br> July: <strong><em>Children of Ruin</em></strong> by Adrian Tchaikovsky<br> August: <strong><em>Seven of Infinities</em></strong> by Aliette de Bodard<br> <br> <img style="max-width:100%;height:auto" src="cid:3BD1C01DE8854A8797781B3C4F48154B" wbeuser="cjhi@newcastle2.com"><br> <br> I opted against weighing the data when I reran it, as somewhere in the data weighing process is where I tangled the data. <strong><em>Lowest value wins</em></strong> (Come to think of it, lowest value winning is the only chance I’d ever have of winning anything). <br> <br> This is what happens when you rush because of a deadline and don’t double check your work. <br> <br> I apologize again. 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