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March 2018 Open Group Read - Nominations Open Until 15 February
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Less than 48 hours to nominate a book! Only one book has been nominated!The nomination process ends tomorrow 15 February at 11:59PM Pacific Time.
Less than 24 hours to nominate a book! Only one book has been nominated!The nomination process ends today 15 February at 11:59PM Pacific Time.
Since The Lioness of Morocco was the only book nominated, then it is now the March 2018 Open Group Read.
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The Lioness of Morocco (other topics)The Lioness of Morocco (other topics)
Welcome! As usual, this group read is to be selected by you, the members. The Open group read is the conventional group read wherein you can nominate any book in the Historical Fiction genre.
Important! Note that we are now limiting the group read to a specific genre (which was previously selected by the membership).
Note: We also run another group read called the “Lesser-Known Books Group Read". Books by the same author cannot be nominated to both group reads in the same month.
* The nomination process ends on 15 February at 11:59PM Pacific Time.
* The final selection process ends on 23 February at 11:59PM Pacific Time. (The deadline is a few days before the end of the month in order to provide people with enough time to order the book.)
* After the book has been selected, we will also nominate and select a matching film of the month.
If a dispute arises as to the qualifications of a book, then common sense and consensus would prevail. In the case of a deadlock, a moderator decision would be binding.
Nomination Process
1) Each member nominates one qualified book by placing it on the mar-2018-open-bom-noms bookshelf.
Note: An author may nominate their own book.
a) Go to the bookshelf by clicking the bookshelf link:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
b) Find your book by typing its title in the Add books field and clicking Search.
c) To the right of your book, click either Add to group or Edit.
d) Select the mar-2018-open-bom-noms bookshelf to add your book to by clicking Choose shelves and checking mar-2018-open-bom-nominees. Make sure to also select To Read.
e) Click Close and then Save Group Book.
2) Authors must wait until the 6th month after one of their books has been chosen as a book of the month group read--on either the open or lesser-known group read--before they are eligible for nomination again. For example, for this month's group read, the most recent month for which an author's book could have been the group read is September 2017.
Final Selection Process
To promote the broadest participation possible, we use a form of approval voting. In this voting system, you should vote for all of the books that you want to read. The nominee with the most votes would become the BoM. In this way, you don't need to vote for a book just because you think it will win even though you'd rather read another one. Instead, you can vote for both of them!