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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Read Along: Barren Bitches Book Tour--Tour #12

Welcome to the twelfth 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: Water for Elephants
Author: Sara Gruen
Start Date: April 17
Post Date: May 26
(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 Water for Elephants).

Life After Infertility and Loss (JuliaS)
All Things Deb (Deb)
Slaying, Blogging, Whatever... (Delenn)
The Road Less Travelled (Loribeth)
Everyday Stranger (Helen)
Falling or Flying (Jodie)
Carrying On (Katherine)
Weebles Wobblog (Lori)
Crazy Yet? (Jenna)
Desperately Seeking Baby (Heather)
Fertility Notes (Gabrielle)
Excavator (Excavator)
Southern Infertility (Samantha)

Even if haven't read Water for Elephants, 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 #13 is The Empty Picture Frame by Jenna Nadeau. The author will be participating too. Y'all know who this is, right? It's Jenna from Epi-blog, which is now invite-only. The purchase of the book also benefits Resolve since she donates part of the profits. The book chronicles her IVF attempts and contains the thoughts of her husband, Mike, woven through the pages as well.

The Details: Tour #13 (lucky 13!) will start May 27. Participants will read The Empty Picture Frame by Jenna Nadeau. On or before July 1st (Canada Day), 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 July 3rd. You can also send along any questions you have directly for Jenna Nadeau. Everyone will choose 3 questions from the list and answer them on their own blog on July 9 or 10 (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 #13, 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.

2 comments:

Jendeis said...

How cool is it that I finished the book just in time for the post date? It's fate at work - go Hashem! :)

JuliaS said...

AAACCCKKK! Catch up overload - too much! Too much! I finally got my book tour post up, but sad I missed the show and tell and behind TWO days (THREE tomorrow!) on the no-comma-whatadingdongIam
(dratted Appalachian spotty dial-up internet non-service. Though - the graduation was lovely, thank you.)

Does leaving comments for the book tour count for our NaComLeavMo requirements? (She asks ever so hopefully) :0)