January 2025

 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 4pm at Rita's home.  Carolyn will co-host. 

Rita will review The Women by Kristin Hannah.

December 2024

Christmas party at Barbara's.  Details tba.

 

November 2024

 Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at 4pm at Talya's home.  Lynette will co-host.

October 2024

 

Tuesday, September 8, 2024, at 4pn at Sarah's home. De Ann will co-host.

Sarah will review The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson.  

We have three winners! And a great Long List!

Women of Literatae,

We have three new titles to get us through January.  Be prepared to plan out those months at our meeting on Tuesday.

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Seed Keepers by Diane Wilson

A Table for Two by Amor Towles

As always, the long list will be added to the link on literatae.blogspot.com.  Or you can see it here.

September 2024

 

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 4pm at Trudy's home. 

Pam will review The River by Peter Heller. 

Talya will provide food.

August 2024

Tuesday, August 13 at 4 pm at Leigh's home

Lynette will review The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.

Leigh will provide food.

White River Red Field Trip

 

Becky Marietta will be speaking on White River Red at Springdale Public Library on July 27 at 2pm.  For more information, visit the calendar item.

July 2024

Party Like It's 1984 at Paula's house on Tuesday, July 9.

Read any book published in 1984 to share briefly with the group.  Some possibilities from Wikipedia, Goodreads, New York Times.  I also put on my librarian hat and created this list of Literary Award Winners Published in 1984 and added a date published column to our title/author list. The column is incomplete: I only looked up dates for likely titles. I also highlighted 1984 titles in all tabs.

Be prepared to share Literatae Moments in History.

Dress for the occasion in your best flashback garb. 

June 2024

Tuesday. June 11 at 4pm at Lynette's home.

Nancy will review Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano.

Lynette will provide food.

Voting

Women of Literatae,
Thank you so much for getting your title recommendations in! We wound up with 8 titles this cycle, but that's fine, as we are choosing only three books.

Votes are due by online ballot by midnight on Friday, June 7.

The slide show of Fall 2024 Nominees is now available. See all the titles, book jackets, publisher summaries, comments from nominators, and Fayetteville Public Library, Washington County Library System, and Amazon availability. For the first time in a long time, we have all fiction titles. In an attempt to present them objectively, I arranged them by author.

You may need to click the slideshow 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.

Scratch Paper Ballot: If you're like me, you need to decide on paper before voting on an electronic ballot. Print this ballot for a list of titles in the same order as the slideshow. To fill out the online ballot, you will need to rank your five choices 1-5, with 1 being your top pick and 5 your bottom pick.

Online Ballot: Once you have decided on your five choices and ranked them 1-5, use this online ballot to vote. Remember that you will not rank titles other than the five you have selected. I've included ranking of the titles so that in the event of a tie, we will not have to have a run-off.


Happy voting!
Sarah

The Titles Are Trickling In...

Check out the running list of nominations here:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/12FsKwfUJqFN-4JdMynE6OGlTFvSLeoXetbkleok3G4s/edit?usp=sharing

Call for Titles

Women of Literatae, it's time to choose our next round of books. 

Due to a couple of issues, we already have books slotted through September, but I'm working hard to make this happen at the same times each year to streamline my process.  So, I am going ahead with this, but we will be selecting only THREE books this round. That should put us back on track to choose six books in the fall and five in the spring.

 

Step 1 - now through May 28:

Send your titles by email to sakroberson@gmail.com.  Titles and authors, reviews if you've got 'em, your own personal comments.  But just title & author is fine.  I can pull reviews.  Want to know if we’ve previously read a particular book?  Click on the Literatae Reads by Author & Title  at the top right of literatae.blogspot.com.

 

Ongoing:  Rough list of submitted titles available on blog, so you can see what other titles have been submitted as you work on your own submission(s).

 

Step 2 - by June 1:

Slide show with all titles submitted, scratch ballot, and Google form for voting will be posted.

 

Step 3 - by June 7:  

Ponder your options & vote using the Google form.

 

Step 4 - Results posted by June 9, but grid up on June 7, if  you want to volunteer before seeing the titles.   

 

My part of this is easy, as long as you send titles by May 28.  Please do.  Thanks!

May 2024

Tuesday, May 14 at 4pm at Kathy's home.

Connie will review The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers.

Kathy will provide food.

April 2024

Tuesday, April 9 at 4pm at Connie's House.

Tonia will review Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

Carolyn will provide food.

March 2024

Tuesday, March 12 at 4pm: Judy does it all!

Judy will host.

Judy will review Tom Lake by Ann Patchett.

Judy will provide food.

A Literatae March tradition!

February 2024

Tuesday, February 13 at Talya's house.

Trudy will review The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Pam will provide food.

January 2024

Cancelled TWICE due to winter weather.