Literatae Book Club

Saturday, April 1, 2023

April 2023

Tuesday, April 11 at 4 pm at Talya's house.

Tayla will lead a discussion of her most recent book, Bernice Runs Away.

Ann will provide dessert.

Saturday, March 11, 2023

March 2023

Tuesday, March 14 at 4pm at Judy's house.

Judy will review The Measure by Nikki Erlick.

Judy will provide dessert.

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Tuesday, February 21, 2023 @ 4pm -- Note the shift to the third Thursday to accommodate Valentine's Day. We will also discuss where to donate our Christmas collection and accept final contributions.

At Nancy's House.

Sarah will review The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.

Leigh will provide dessert.

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Our New Reading List!

Women of Literatae,

Voting is finished and we have a new slate of books! Thanks to everyone who nominated books and voted! As always, I'll add the Long List to the link at the top right of the website, so you can check out nominated titles that didn't make the short list. I know there are a couple I want to add to my personal reading list.

Be thinking about the order in which you want to read the books, which one you might be willing to review, and which one might lend a fun and delicious theme for our July party. We need to create our February - July calendar at our meeting on Tuesday. If you want to sign up to host or provide dessert ahead of time, here's the grid. I'll print it out early Tuesday afternoon so we'll have it to refer to. Hope to see you then!

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Bernice Runs Away by Talya Tate Boerner

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Sunday, January 1, 2023

January 2023

January 10

This Tender Land

Rita's house

Rita - dessert

Leigh - review

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Everything You Need to Vote

Women of Literatae,

Thank you so much for getting your title recommendations in! Sorry I hounded you a bit. I know that this is a busy time of year, but you really came through. We wound up with 18 titles this cycle.

You're getting a few extra days to vote. I have all of this ready a few days early, as the weather and my foot have conspired to give me lots of time in my chair. Plus, I wanted to get this done before my birthday!

Here's what I've put together for you. Votes are due by online ballot by midnight on January 7. 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 2022 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, plus Thriftbooks availability for a few. 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 (or does it say 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 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.

Happy voting!

Sarah

Friday, December 2, 2022

Nomination Time

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

Step 1 - now through December 27:

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. Tabs at the bottom allow you to view sorted by author or by title.

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 December 31:

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

Step 3 - by January 7:

Ponder your options & vote using the Google form.

Step 4 - Results posted by January 9, but grid up on December 13, if you want to volunteer before seeing the titles. I'll tally the votes and send out the results.

My part of this is easy, as long as you send titles by December 27. Please do. Thanks!