New list below! We're onto the final group, Group C:

Welcome to the eighth tour of the Barren Bitches Book Brigade--a book club from the comfort of your own living room. Grab a cup of coffee and start clicking away at the links below.

Just to explain, this book club is entirely online and open to anyone (male or female) in the infertility/pregnancy loss/assisted conception/adoption/parenting-after-infertility world (as well as any other related category I inadvertently left off the list). It is called a book tour because everyone reads the same book and then poses a question to the group. Participants choose a few questions to answer and then post their response on their blog. Readers can jump from blog to blog, commenting along the way.

Book: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Start Date: October 31st
Post Dates: December 10, 11, and 12
(need an explanation of how a book tour works? Click here to go to a list of posts on the past book tours as well as information about all upcoming tours and book events.)

Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (click on any of the links below to take you to a stop on this book tour. Jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on The Handmaid's Tale. We've broken down the current tour into three groups. This is the final list).

Group C:

My Journey to Motherhood (Courtney)
Tired of Waiting (Holly)
The Infertile Long and Winding Road (Ms. Infertile)
Candy's Land (Candy)
Coming2Terms (Pamela Jeanne)
Confessions of a Paranoid Parent (Paranoid)
The Road Less Travelled (Loribeth)
The Duchess (Duchess)
The Dunn Family (Erica)

Even if you've been living under a rock and haven't read The Handmaid's Tale, you can still add your own thoughts on the blog tour or react to someone else's critique.

Like the idea of being in a book club without leaving your living room? The next book for book tour #9 is a non-IF book (otherwise known as a pepper book by the Barren Bitches) The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler. The next 7 book tours or so all have author participation so you'll also be able to interact online with Karen and ask your questions about her book.

The Details: Tour #9 will start December 13. Participants will read The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Fowler. On Wednesday, January 16th everyone will send one question based on the book (to get a sense of questions, click here to see the questions sent for book tour #2) to me. I will compile the questions into lists that will be emailed out to you on January 17th. Everyone will choose 3 questions from the list and answer them on their own blog on January 22--24th (we will break up into two or three smaller groups and you can choose which day works best for you when the date gets closer). Each day of the tour, I'll also post a master list and people can jump from blog to blog, reading and commenting on the book tour.

If you would like to sign up to participate in book tour #9, leave a comment below or send me an email. I need the title and a link to your blog as well as an email address where you'd like the two or three book club emails sent. If a spouse wants to participate too and he/she doesn't have their own blog, have them set up a blog solely for book tours (as we did with the Annex) and send me a link to that blog. And if you're a reader without a blog, now is a great time to set up a space for yourself on Blogger. People will be able to find brand-spanking-new blogs because they will be on the book tour's participant list. The next few tours are always listed on the new upcoming and past tours list. Happy reading.

Also: upcoming book event! January 9, 2008 at 8 p.m. (Wednesday night): online chat with Darci Klein of To Full Term. Read the book beforehand and bring your questions-OR-simply come and hear this discussion. Information will be emailed prior to the event, so if you plan on joining along send an email or leave a comment below specifying the To Full Term discussion (8 p.m. is based on the American EST which is UTC -5).