<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dave, i’ll pass on listing books this time, too much on my plate just now. Should be easing up in a few months, so May or June would be workable. Sorry…<div><br></div><div>Stan</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 26, 2025, at 2:34 AM, David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Since no one not on the list of the past year's book suggesters spoke up, we'll move on to plan B, as we discussed in previous emails.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">At the March 7 NESFA Reading Group meeting, Wes and someone else will propose three books to vote on for the July and August meetings.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I suggested Alek for that "someone else", based on our recent history, but he wants to delay. Next in least-recent history was Stan Zisk. Stan? Are you ready with three books to suggest for us to vote on at the March 7 meeting?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM David G. Grubbs <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com">dggrubbs@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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We are all living in a Dr. Who episode.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I suggested that if someone who was *not* on that list speaks up, we would let them propose three books for July. I set a deadline of Tuesday.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">But we could also vote on two months' books (July & August), so Wes would be one of the two.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We'll wait until Tuesday evening, but the second book would be either the person who speaks up or Stan Zisk (next on list). Or if Stan doesn't want it, we walk down the list.</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, Feb 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM Richard Schwartz via reading-group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</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">Alek<br>
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Was this turned into a Doctor Who episode?<br>
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Richard<br>
Sent from my iPhone<br>
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> On Feb 23, 2025, at 5:43 PM, Wesley Brodsky via reading-group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> OK, I will propose three which are under publication for a while, including one that has been proposed several times but not choosen.<br>
> <br>
> Wes Brodsky <br>
> "It is of the utmost importance that Concepts not trouble you with silliness or complications, unless you are searching for really difficult work."; Giordano Bruno (1582)<br>
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> From: reading-group <<a href="mailto:reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org</a>> on behalf of Aleksander Slominski (NY10) <<a href="mailto:ALEKNY10@gmail.com" target="_blank">ALEKNY10@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2025 5:23 PM<br>
> To: NESFA Reading Group<br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:reading-group@nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@nesfa.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] Selecting our July book at the March 7 meeting.<br>
> <br>
> Hi David,<br>
> <br>
> Please move me to the end of the list as the book I want to propose is going to be published in November [1].<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> Alek<br>
> [1] November 11 2025<br>
> There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm<br>
> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DSJ2LW2Z" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DSJ2LW2Z</a><br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM David G. Grubbs <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> It is time to designate someone to suggest three books we can vote on<br>
> at the March 7th NESFA Reading Group meeting. The winner would be<br>
> the book to discuss at our July 4th reading group meeting.<br>
> <br>
> There have been a total of 16 people who have suggested a book for the<br>
> NESFA Reading group since I started keeping track in April 2021.<br>
> <br>
> Two of those people have withdrawn from the group.<br>
> Two others have not shown up in more than a year.<br>
> <br>
> The 12 suggesters listed below have rotated through almost twice.<br>
> <br>
> If someone volunteers who is not mentioned in the following list, I will ask that person to suggest three books. Please respond by Tuesday evening, February 25.<br>
> <br>
> Otherwise, we will loop through again, starting with Alek, if he is willing.<br>
> <br>
> YYYY/MM Book-Suggester<br>
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> 2024/7 Alek Slominski<br>
> 2024/8 Wes Brodsky<br>
> 2024/9 Stan Zisk<br>
> 2024/10 Chip Hitchcock<br>
> 2024/11 Richard Schwartz<br>
> 2024/12 Liz Patton<br>
> 2025/1 Shelly Thomas<br>
> 2025/2 Gloria Lucia Albasi<br>
> 2025/3 Tracy Marks<br>
> 2025/4 David G. Grubbs<br>
> 2025/5 Ann Katsios<br>
> 2025/6 David Whitham<br>
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