Welcome to the nineteenth 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.

Anyone can jump aboard--it's a book club where you can drop in and out as you wish and all in the community are welcome.

Book: Navigating the Land of If
Author: Melissa Ford (that's me!)
Start Date: May 26th
Post Dates: June 29th
(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 future tours.)

About Navigating the Land of If: a guide for navigating the complex world of infertility. It will help you understand the lingo, learn the details doctors tend to leave out, and keep your emotional sanity despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Navigating the Land of If gives the nitty-gritty on injections, rejections, biting your tongue during happy parent-to-be conversations, and trying not to cry over baby shower invitations.

Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (The blogs below are participating on this current book tour. You'll be able to jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on Navigating the Land of If.)

The Road Less Travelled
Baby Smiling in Back Seat
Weebles Wobblog
Baby Steps to Baby Shoes
Secrets of an Infertile Mom
Weber's in Action
The Dragondreamer's Lair
Clio
Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed
Baby Shmaybe?
Baby Making Journey
Sticky Feet
Here We Go Again
Tears are for Babies
Hello, My Name is M...and I'm Infertile

Even if haven't read Navigating the Land of If, 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 current group chooses the next book. The 20th tour will be Moose by Stephanie Klein (with author participation). From Amazon: "Whether Klein is describing her life as a chubby adolescent camper--getting weighed on a meat scale, petting past curfew, and "chunky dunking" in the lake--or what it's like now as a fit mother, having one-sided conversations with her newborn twins about the therapy they'll one day need, this hilarious yet grippingly vulnerable book will remind you what it was like to feel like an outsider, to desperately seek the right outfit, the right slang, the best comeback, or whatever that unattainable something was that would finally make you fit in." Not an infertility-related book, but it will be a great jumping board to a discussion on body as it relates to infertility.

The Details: Tour #20 will start June 30. Participants will read Moose by Stephanie Klein. On or before August 12th, 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 by August 14th. Everyone will choose 3 questions from the list and answer them on their own blog on August 17th. 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 #20, 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 participants on the Moose book tour will choose the book for tour #21.

Happy reading.