Dystopian Present 🌰

Voting time! By popular demand, we are trying this free ranked choice app. Voting closes at 12 am on Saturday, Chicago time (CDT). The user name listed is the person who volunteered to lead. All titles were nominated by more than one member. 📖 rankedchoices.com/ballot/jwu3

The ones we could remember (and when I say we I mean, of course, the hamster!) are: No Fond Return of Love Jazz Fates and Furies Murder on the Orient Express The Pillow Book So reply here with any I missed, or with new suggestions, and also please note whether or not you can lead in Oct. 📖

Hello, readers! It’s Modern/Classics time as we take on Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Percival Everett’s retelling, “James.” Who’s in? Post here, and I will add you to the feed! (Which I am still tinkering with!) Schedule to come, but 8/15-9/30.) 🛶📖 #HuckandJames

August/Sept: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and James by Percival Everett, proposed as an August and September selection by @hatfullofsky.bsky.social was chosen by 51.9% of the 27 respondents. 📖 The result is clear. October results are less clear. See 🧵. (1/3)

Survey is up for the August/September Book Selection. It will be open until Friday, July 17th at 11:59 p.m. Central Daylight Time, USA. 📖 /Ren & CC forms.gle/TKeFP4mqsec6...

August book club nominations! Drop 1 book + author in the replies on this thread only, please--one per person, and you must be willing to lead the discussion if your pick wins. Nominations close Tuesday, July 14. Then we vote by poll, closing Friday, July 17. What should we read? 📖 (1/3)

Melina Matsoukas to direct Octavia E. Butler’s classic “Parable of the Sower” for Warner Bros