2015: The Year of Reading Women discussion

Is there anyone here interested in reading Baby No-Eyes by Patricia Grace in 2015?

This is a book that has been languishing on my TBR for much too long.

Ms. Grace was recipient of the Neustadt award in 2008.

“Every once in a while a storyteller emerges who brings forth provocative, compassionate, and beautiful tales, the exact story-food the people need to carry them through tough, transformative times. Patricia Grace of the Maori people is one of these storytellers given to the people of Aotearoa, and now to the world as she is honored as the twentieth laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.” — Joy Harjo, “In Honor of Patricia Grace” (WLT Vol.83, May 2009)

http://neustadtprize.org/category/the...

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia...

Ironically, a friend who is far more of a poet reader than I suggested just this evening that Joy Harjo should be a selection on this board!

New to me, but it looks great, so I just bought it. Count me in, Lily!

Thanks, Kris. My schedule is not fixed for 2015 reading, so if you or others have druthers, do share.

I'm flexible, Lily -- any time should work for me.

OK, I just looked at my schedule again, and it looks like the first half of the year is getting pretty crowded. Lily, would you be willing to delay this read until August?

Kris wrote: "OK, I just looked at my schedule again, and it looks like the first half of the year is getting pretty crowded. Lily, would you be willing to delay this read until August?"

Sure! Depending on how my year goes, I may or may not pick it up sooner and spend some time with it, but for discussion, August should be fine. At least it gives me some sort of deadline/goal/commitment to get it off my TBR and into my hands.

I'd love to see a few more join us. I don't know why, especially as a Neustadt laureate, Patricia Grace still seems so relatively obscure.

I have Baby No-Eyes downloaded on my Kobo. Later in the year would be good for me too.

Great, Lily and Laima -- I'll create the discussion thread and post it on the August schedule.

OK -- discussion thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Thanks, Kris.