The slide show of Spring 2021 Nominees is now available. See all the titles, book jackets, publisher summaries, comments from nominators, and Fayetteville Public Library, Independent Bookseller (The Raven in Lawrence, Kansas) and Amazon availability. They are divided into a Fiction and a Biography, Memoir, & Nonfiction section. In an attempt to present them objectively, I arranged them by author.
The comment window is now open. Send your comments on specific books to me by email by November 21, and I will add those to the slide show. We may also have a Zoom session for comments during the comment window. Ballots will be available on November 25.
You may need to click the present button in the upper right corner to view the presentation. Then use the enter key or click your mouse to step through the slides. If you want to return to an earlier slide, use the left arrow key to go back. The escape key will get you out of the presentation at any time.About the addition of Independent Bookseller: I'm currently exasperated with Amazon (over their failure to vet cheap Chinese knock-offs), so I've provided an alternative to automatically buying our books from them. I thought I might feature a different independent bookseller each season. I know most of us are retired and on fixed budgets, and many of us -- like me -- are dedicated public library patrons. But, it's just another option. The Raven is a lovely bookstore, and I have ordered other books from them since the beginning of Covid.
