December 2024

Soup and Salad Christmas party on December 10 at 1pm at Barbara's.  Barbara will prompt us to sign up for our contributions to the pot luck.  We will be gathering a donation to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research in memory of Nancy.  Consider a double donation, since this will be our Christmas gift, as well as a memorial for Nancy.

SOUP: Crawfish Bisque (Sarah)

             Steak Soup (Barbara & Judy)

            White Chicken Chili (Paula)

SALADS:  Tossed Salad with Berries (Trudy)

                   Salad (Kathy)

                   7-Layer Salad (Leigh)

BREAD:  Homemade Loaf Bread (Cheri)

                 Cornbread (Talya)

                 Garlic Bread & Oyster Crackers (Rita)

                 Biscuits (Lynette)

DESSERT:  Pecan Bars (Crystal)

                    Rum Cake (Pam)

                    Pumpkin Paradise Pie (LeAynne)

PLATES, BOWLS, FORKS & SPOONS, NAPKINS:  Tonia & Ann

DRINKS:  Grapefruit Margaritas (Barbara & Judy)

                           Prosecco (Connie & Ann)

                  Wine (Kathy)

                  Pinot Grigio (Tonia)

 

Our New Book List

 

Women of Literatae,

The votes are counted and we have an exciting new list.  Come to Talya's on Tuesday prepared to get these onto our 2025 calendar!

James by Percival Everett

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury

 Women of Literatae, it's time to vote for our slate of upcoming books.  I think we have a great list to choose from.  Thank you to everyone who sent in titles!  You make my job so easy!

Votes are due by online ballot by midnight on Friday, November 8.

The slide show of Fall 2025 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.  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 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.


Happy voting!
Sarah

November 2024

 Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at 4pm at Talya's home.  Tonia will review A Table for Two.  Lynette will co-host.  

 Nominations are beginning to trickle in.  See the list.

 

Women of Literatae, it's time to choose our next round of books. In order to have another list of titles in the pipeline by the time we meet in November, we need to get started. It seems awfully early, I know, but this moves the voting process out of December when we tend to be so busy.

Step 1 - now through Tuesday, October 29:
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 Saturday, November 2:
Slide show with all titles submitted, scratch ballot, and Google form for voting will be posted.

Step 3 - by Friday, November 8:
Ponder your options & vote using the Google form.

Step 4 - Results posted by Sunday, November 10. I'll tally the votes and send out the results.

My part of this is easy, as long as you send titles by Tuesday, October 29. Please do. Thanks! --Sarah

October 2024

 

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

Sarah will review The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson.  

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.

Nancy, Leigh, Carolyn, Tonia, and Sarah attended.

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. 

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.