March 2025

Tuesday, March 11 at 2pm:  Judy does it all!  We'll be reading Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford.  Barbara will co-host.  They are conspiring to serve High Tea.
 

Time Change

Members present at our February meeting discussed possibilities regarding meeting a 2pm.  We settled on meeting at 2pm from November through March, and at 4pm from April through October.  We'll try this for a while and see how it goes.

February 2025

 

Tuesday, February 11 at 4pm 2 pm at Kathy's Barbara's home.  Rita will co-host.  Ann will review Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury.  

January 2025

 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 4pm 2pm at Rita's home.  Carolyn will co-host. 

Rita will review The Women by Kristin Hannah.

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.