Nominations: January/February/March 2017

I can't believe it but the year is already winding down!!

Let's take a look ahead to what next year has in store by nominating some possible authors for our reading pleasure. :)

Just a brief reminder on the nomination rules:

Any author chosen in the last 2 years (see the group wiki for the list) is not eligible again. Previously nominated authors who didn't win can be nominated again.

You have up to 4 nominations of your own as well as 4 chances to second other's nominations. Any author who is seconded gets into the final vote.

Deadline: Let's all get our nominations in by November 28 so we can start voting and have plenty of time to acquire our reading selections for the new year.

Nominating:
Elizabeth Berg
Tom Robbins

Nominanting:

Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Eliot

Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating today

My nominations are for:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
David Sedaris
Leonard Cohen - touchstones won't work
Frank McCourt

I'll second George Eliot and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Seconding Tom Robbins! One of my top 5 authors of all time.
Nominating
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Jane Austen

Might come back with more if I think of any.

It's late I know but nonetheless l'll put forward a couple names and nominate:
Thomas Mann
Orhan Pamuk

And second Jane Austen

As response was fairly low, we only have 4 seconded authors. So I'm going to make an executive decision to forgo voting this time around and just declare those 4 authors for the next 4 months.

January - Jane Austen
February - George Eliot
March - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
April - Tom Robbins

edited for touchstone issues