Thursday, July 1, 2021

Fall 2021 Voting

Everything You Need to Vote

Women of Literatae,

Thank you so much for getting your title recommendations in!  We wound up with 15 titles to choose from, which is actually a pretty good number: enough to actually get to choose, but not so many as to be overwhelming.

Here's what I've put together for you.  Votes are due by online ballot by midnight on July 11.  Fill in the Volunteer Grid as you see fit.  If you have any problems with any of the links, please let me know so I can adjust settings.

The slide show of Fall 2021 Nominees is now available.  See all the titles, book jackets, publisher summaries, comments from nominators, and Fayetteville Public Library, Independent Bookseller (WordsWorth Books in Little Rock) 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.
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.

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 six choices 1-6, with 1 being your top pick and 6 your bottom pick.

Online Ballot:  Once you have decided on your six choices and ranked them 1-6, use this online ballot to vote.  Remember that you will not rank titles other than the six 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.

Volunteer Grid Sign up for house, reviewer, and dessert.  Of course, all of this is subject to the course of Covid19.

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Running List of Nominations

 Check out the list of nominations -- updated as they come in.

Nomination Time

Women of Literatae, it's time to choose our next round of books. In order to have another book in the pipeline by the time we meet in July, we need to get started.


Now through June 29:

Send your titles to sakroberson@gmail.com. Titles and authors, reviews if you have them, your own personal comments. But just title and author is fine. It's easy to pull reviews.


Ongoing:

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


by July 2:

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


by July 11:

Ponder your options and vote using the Google form.


Results posted by July 13, but grid up on July 2, if you want to volunteer before seeing titles. I'll tally the votes and send out the results, along with a grid that everybody can edit to create a schedule of hosts, desserts, and reviews.



Thursday, June 10, 2021

June 2021

We met in Nancy's back yard, where Nancy reviewed The Vapors by David Hill.



 

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

May 2021

Connie reviewed Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld.
 

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

April 2021

Tonya reviewed The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson.

Monday, March 8, 2021

March 2021

Trudy reviewed The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi.
 

Sunday, February 14, 2021

February 2021

 

Judy reviewed A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Updated List

 The reading list, as updated at January meeting:






Friday, January 1, 2021

January 2021

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Review:  Tonia

Sunday, December 6, 2020

Spring 2021 Book List

I've tallied the results and we have six winners!  

Everyone who voted cast a ballot for The Geography of Bliss by Eris Weiner.  Have we ever had a unanimous vote?  Thank you, Rita, for that nomination.  It seems that we are all hungry for laughter and armchair travel during this tenth month of mostly staying home.

As always, the Long List (including titles that didn't make the cut) has been added to the List of Literatae Long Lists link in the upper right of the Literatae.blogspot.com page.

The results are below.  If you want to volunteer for a role, please visit the grid that will allow you to edit.

Date

Book

Reviewer

House

Dessert

February 9

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson




March 9

The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner




April 13

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson




May 11

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld




June 8

The Vapors by David Hill




July 13

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi




Tuesday, December 1, 2020

December 2020

 


December 8, 2020

Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant

Review by Kathy