Marching with the Barren Bitches Book Brigade–Tour Ten

Here is the master list for the tenth 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: Embryo Culture*
Author: Beth Kohl
Start Date: January 29
Question Due: February 27
Question List Sent Out: February 28
Post Dates: March 3–5
(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!

Barren Bitches Book Brigade List (The blogs below are participating on this current book tour. On March 3, you’ll be able to jump from post to post to read a plethora of opinions and thoughts on Embryo Culture. I will keep adding to this list until 11 p.m. on February 27. The list is currently open)

Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters
Our Box of Rain
Beaten But Not Bowed
The Duchess
Slaying, Blogging, Whatever…
The Road Less Travelled
The Dunn Family
The Infertile Long and Winding Road
The Open Door
All Things Deb
The Conceivable Future
Desperate to Multiply
Sticky Bean
Everyday Stranger/Twisted Ovaries
Baby Steps to Baby Shoes
Fertility Notes
Sell Crazy Someplace Else
Life, Love and the Pursuit of Normalcy
Journey to Baby – Uncertain Yet Hopeful
On the Wrong Side of Statistics
A Day in the Life of a Moody Person
Southern Infertility

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 February 27.

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 Embryo Culture by February 27th (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 February 28th (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, Beth Kohl, is open to answering any questions and reading along. Please send me any questions you have for her by February 27th.

(5) on February 28th, I will send you a list of possible questions. Everyone will choose 3 questions off the list and answer them in a blog entry. You will find out if you are posting on March 3, 4, or 5 (you can choose).

(6) on March 3rd, 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).