Category — Book Club

Welcome to the fourteenth 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: Eat, Pray, Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Start Date: July 10
Post Dates: August 18 and 19
(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 Eat, Pray, Love: Though it may seem like a stretch before you begin reading, this book about the author’s divorce and year of finding happiness actually has a lot of hidden lessons on coping with infertility and loss. An amazing read in 108 brief sections, Gilbert’s journey will take you to Italy, India, and Indonesia.

Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (The blogs below are participating on this current book tour. Each day, you’ll be able to jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on Eat, Pray, Love. This is the final list of participants)

Slaying, Blogging, Whatever…
Life After Infertility and Loss
The Unfair Struggle
Three of a Kind Working on a Full House
The Fertile Infertile
Saucy Eggs
There’s Hope
Our Family Beginnings
This is NOT What I Ordered!
Baby Smiling in Back Seat
The Road Less Travelled

Even if haven’t read Eat, Pray, Love, 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 #15 is Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty. The description, according to Simon & Schuster:

Emma has it all mapped out: Go off the pill in December, have sex, get pregnant by January, have the baby in September. And with the help of a personal trainer, Emma figures she’ll be back in shape by Christmas. Happy New Year! But when three months of candle-scented sex fails to produce the desired result, Emma’s life becomes a rollercoaster of post-coital handstands, hormone inducing (a.k.a. sanity reducing) drugs, and a veritable army of fertility specialists. Emma and James try everything, from ovulation kits to in-vitro, but all their carefully laid plans seem to go south — in direct proportion to Emma’s plummeting self-esteem. And just when Emma feels she’s alienated everyone in her life — her twice-pregnant confidante, her singleton friend, even her own husband — events take a ninety-degree turn that will have unforeseen consequences for everyone.

The Details: Tour #15 will start August 21. Participants will read Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty. On or before September 24th, 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 September 26th. Everyone will choose 3 questions from the list and answer them on their own blog on October 2. 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 #15, 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.

Welcome to the fourteenth 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: Eat, Pray, Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Start Date: July 10
Post Dates: August 18 and 19
(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 Eat, Pray, Love: Though it may seem like a stretch before you begin reading, this book about the author’s divorce and year of finding happiness actually has a lot of hidden lessons on coping with infertility and loss. An amazing read in 108 brief sections, Gilbert’s journey will take you to Italy, India, and Indonesia.

Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (The blogs below are participating on this current book tour. Each day, you’ll be able to jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on Eat, Pray, Love. This is the first list of participants)

Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters (below this post)
Weebles Wobblog
Everyday Stranger
Age 30 – A Year of Books
Beyond the PaleMother
Working on It
Coming2Terms
Emily the Hopeless
My Whole is Greater Than the Sum of My Parts
All Things Deb
The Daily Doings of Mr. Silly and Little Miss Trouble
A View On My Life

Even if haven’t read Eat, Pray, Love, 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 #15 is Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty. The description, according to Simon & Schuster:

Emma has it all mapped out: Go off the pill in December, have sex, get pregnant by January, have the baby in September. And with the help of a personal trainer, Emma figures she’ll be back in shape by Christmas. Happy New Year! But when three months of candle-scented sex fails to produce the desired result, Emma’s life becomes a rollercoaster of post-coital handstands, hormone inducing (a.k.a. sanity reducing) drugs, and a veritable army of fertility specialists. Emma and James try everything, from ovulation kits to in-vitro, but all their carefully laid plans seem to go south — in direct proportion to Emma’s plummeting self-esteem. And just when Emma feels she’s alienated everyone in her life — her twice-pregnant confidante, her singleton friend, even her own husband — events take a ninety-degree turn that will have unforeseen consequences for everyone.

The Details: Tour #15 will start August 21. Participants will read Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty. On or before September 24th, 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 September 26th. Everyone will choose 3 questions from the list and answer them on their own blog on October 2. 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 #15, 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.

Here is the master list for the fourteen tour of the Barren Bitches Book Brigade. What is the Barren Bitches Book Brigade? It’s a book club from the comfort of your own living room. The book club is conducted 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. We read both fiction and non-fiction.

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: Eat, Pray, Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Start Date: July 10
Question Due: August 13
Question List Sent Out: August 15
Post Dates: August 18 and 19
(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 Eat, Pray, Love: Though it may seem like a stretch before you begin reading, this book about the author’s divorce and year of finding happiness actually has a lot of hidden lessons on coping with infertility and loss. An amazing read in 108 brief sections, Gilbert’s journey will take you to Italy, India, and Indonesia.

Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (The blogs below are participating on this current book tour. On August 18th, you’ll be able to jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on Eat, Pray, Love. I will keep adding to this list until 11 p.m. on August 13. The list is currently open)

Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters
The Road Less Travelled
Weebles Wobblog
Everyday Stranger
Lupus Pie
Age 30 – A Year of Books
Beyond the PaleMother
Working on It
Coming2Terms
The Twinkies
Emily the Hopeless
My Whole is Greater Than the Sum of My Parts
All Things Deb
The Daily Doings of Mr. Silly and Little Miss Trouble
A View On My Life
Slaying, Blogging, Whatever…
Working on It
Life After Infertility and Loss
The Unfair Struggle
Waiting For My Babycakes
Three of a Kind Working on a Full House
The Fertile Infertile
Saucy Eggs
Maybe It’s All Good?
There’s Hope
Outlandish Notions
Our Family Beginnings
This is NOT What I Ordered!

Not on the list and want to join? Drop me an email at thetowncriers@gmail.com. You can add yourself up until 11 p.m. on August 13.

How the book tour works:

(1) leave a comment or send me an email (thetowncriers@gmail.com) saying that you’re interested in participating. I need your blog name, blog url, and email address.

(2) read Eat, Pray, Love by August 13 (or at least enough of it in order to ask a question to the group).

(3) create a single question that would kick off a discussion (in other words, any question that leads to more than a “yes” or “no” answer where someone can express their opinion) and mail it to me on August 13 (or any time beforehand). I will send you a reminder email close to the date. Click here to see sample questions from tour #4.

(4) on August 15, I will send you a list of possible questions. Everyone will choose 3 questions off the list and answer them in a blog entry.

(5) on August 18, people will begin to post their entry. Each day, I will post a linked list of all the people putting up their entry that day so people can go around and read the entries and comment (start a discussion back and forth in the comments section). Reading the entries and commenting on the posts is the best part of the tour–by the end of the week, you should have a comment from every participant (and maybe even a few new permanent blog readers).

Welcome to the thirteenth 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 Empty Picture Frame
Author: Jenna Nadeau (a blogger!)
Start Date: May 27
Post Date: July 9
(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 Empty Picture Frame).

Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters (Mel)–my post is below this one.
The Road Less Travelled (Loribeth)
Southern Infertility (Samantha)
All Things Deb (Deb)
The Daily Doings of Mr. Silly and Little Miss Trouble (Erica)
Desperately Seeking Baby (Heather)
Everyday Stranger (Helen)
Miss E’s Musings (Ellen)
Life After Infertility and Loss (JuliaS)
Kir’s Corner (Kir)
Hurry Up n Wait (Anita)
Emily the Hopeless (Emily)
In Ancient Starlight (Carrie)

Even if haven’t read The Empty Picture Frame, 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 #14 is a non-IF book that will help you see infertility in an entirely new way (I know, it sounds far-fetched, but I promise you that the lessons learned are applicable to any life crisis) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I’m halfway through right now and it is amazing/incredible. After a messy divorce, she leaves New York to travel to three different places, trying to find happiness through three different means. The landscape is gorgeous and you will go on your own personal journey to finding your own peace as you read. A big burden for a little book to fill, but I think it’s up for the challenge.

The Details: Tour #14 will start July 10th. Participants will read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. On or before August 13th, 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 15th. Everyone will choose 3 questions from the list and answer them on their own blog on August 18 or 19th (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 #14, 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.

Here is the master list for the thirteenth tour of the Barren Bitches Book Brigade. What is the Barren Bitches Book Brigade? It’s a book club from the comfort of your own living room. The book club is conducted 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. We read both fiction and non-fiction.

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: The Empty Picture Frame*
Author: Jenna Nadeau
Start Date: May 27
Question Due: July 1
Question List Sent Out: July 3
Post Dates: July 9
(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.)
*with author participation!

About The Empty Picture Frame: Written by the author of the now invite-only blog, Epi-blog, Jenna details her IVF experience from discovering she is infertile to multiple IVF attempts. Thoughts from her husband, Mike, are woven into the chapters as well. A very interesting read, especially when she explores the emotions surrounding infertility.

Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (The blogs below are participating on this current book tour. On July 9th, you’ll be able to jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on The Empty Picture Frame. I will keep adding to this list until 11 p.m. on July 1. The list is currently open)

Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters
The Road Less Travelled
Southern Infertility
All Things Deb
The Dunn Family
Desperately Seeking Baby
Everyday Stranger
Miss E’s Musings
Life After Infertility and Loss
Kir’s Corner
Maybe It’s Just Me
Hurry Up n Wait
Emily the Hopeless
In Ancient Starlight

Not on the list and want to join? Drop me an email at thetowncriers@gmail.com. You can add yourself up until 11 p.m. on July 1.

How the book tour works:

(1) leave a comment or send me an email (thetowncriers@gmail.com) saying that you’re interested in participating. I need your blog name, blog url, and email address.

(2) read The Empty Picture Frame by July 1 (or at least enough of it in order to ask a question to the group).

(3) create a single question that would kick off a discussion (in other words, any question that leads to more than a “yes” or “no” answer where someone can express their opinion) and mail it to me on July 1 (or any time beforehand). I will send you a reminder email close to the date. Click here to see sample questions from tour #4.

(4) the author, Jenna Nadeau, is open to answering any questions and reading along. Please send me any questions you have for her by July 1.

(5) on July 3, I will send you a list of possible questions. Everyone will choose 3 questions off the list and answer them in a blog entry.

(6) on July 9, people will begin to post their entry. Each day, I will post a linked list of all the people putting up their entry that day so people can go around and read the entries and comment (start a discussion back and forth in the comments section). Reading the entries and commenting on the posts is the best part of the tour–by the end of the week, you should have a comment from every participant (and maybe even a few new permanent blog readers).