August 2021

 

Did we meet? Did we cancel?  I believe we cancelled, as we pushed Harry's Trees to the end of the titles for this semester.  This is part of the Covid Era meetings that we don't have good records for.  

Fall 2021 Book List

 Thanks to everyone who voted!  I've tallied the results and we have six winners!  

The grid of winners is posted below. As always, we can adjust months as needed.  Remember, if you want to claim a spot, you can't edit the grid on this page, but if you click here, you should be able to.  (But your change won't show below.  It's just a static picture.)

Also, the Long List of all nominees is available in the links at the top right of the home page.

July 2021

We took a trip around the world.  Barbara and company went above and beyond to provide food for the trip, and Talya reviewed The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weinter.  See the menu below. (to be added)
 

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.

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.

June 2021

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

 

May 2021

Connie reviewed Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld.
 

April 2021

Tonya reviewed The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson.

March 2021

Trudy reviewed The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi.
 

February 2021

 

Judy reviewed A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.

Updated List

 The reading list, as updated at January meeting: