<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Yes, as we discussed at the last meeting, three of us will each offer three books to be voted on for the next three months:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><ul><li>Liz Patton will offer three for April</li><li>Shelly Thomas will offer three for May</li><li>I (David G. Grubbs) will offer three for June</li></ul><div>I'm hoping to be able to Zoom by June. I will be operated on at 5:15AM on March 13, with an order not to sit in the front seat of a car for six weeks after that. I have no idea what kind of shape I'll be in. I'm planning to read the June book (that I suggest and you vote on at our next meeting) in the next few weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>When I talked to him a few weeks ago, Louis implied that he would be there. It is not auspicious that the front-page "News" section of the NESFA website still announces that we will next be meeting on December 8th to talk about <i>Sourdough</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>If Louis is not available, I can start the NESFA Zoom server or offer my own Zoom server again. That will work for February and March. For April, likely for May, and possibly for June, I will talk to the President of NESFA about finding a backup to run the Reading Group.</div><div><br></div><div>2024-02-02 (or 2/2/24, or Feb 2, 2024) is our meeting date. It is Groundhog Day. In a leap year. I found 2/2/22 or 2/2/2 (2002-02-02) more interesting patterns of numbers.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 8:52 PM Gloria Lucia Albasi <<a href="mailto:trebbiana61@gmail.com">trebbiana61@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Good evening 👋🏻<br>
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Quick check in:<br>
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1) Will we be voting on the April, May, and June reading selections?<br>
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2) Will Louis be available to run the group this month?<br>
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3) Cool numbers in our meeting date.<br>
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Gloria <br>
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