ALA Elections 2019 [edited]

ALA ballots are coming out. I received mine, and have started working through the list.

There is a great guide to the election with candidate statements on the ALA web site. It is a great looking booklet, with a great description of Council including some of the pertinent actions taken over the past few years.

http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/governance/alaelection/2019/elections-booklet-2019.pdf

There is a link on page 16 to the Council bio statements (PDF, 194 pages!):

http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/governance/alaelection/2017/All%20Councilor%20bios%202017..pdf

And there is an Excel workbook on the main election page:

http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/alaelection

Here is a link to Andromeda Yelton's wonderful Council Candidate Sorter. (She has been doing this for several years now ... maybe 5 years?) The code behind it on GitHub (which I only very moderately understand...)

http://thatandromeda.github.io/ala_candidate_filter/2019_ala_council.html

The results will be posted April 10, 2019 on that last link above.

Book Read 2018

Here is the list of books I read in 2018.

Art Boss by Kayla Cagan YA - ARC

Liar, Liar: A Nicole Graves Mystery by Nancy Boyarsky ARC

Sugar Run: a novel by Mesha Maren ARC

Other People's Love Affairs: Stories by D. Wynstan Owen ARC

Bathed in Prayer: Father Tim's Prayers, Sermons and Reflections from the Mitford Series by Jan Karon ARC

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery a re-reading in English

Zion: A Novel by Dayne Sherman LLA 2018 book

All Happy Families: A Memoir by Jeanne McCullough ARC

The Saint of Wolves & Butcher: A Novel by Alex Grecian ARC

Krazy: George Herriman, a life in black and white by Michael Tisserand 2017 LBF author

White Indians of Darien by Richard Ogelsby Marsh
GoodReads review here

The Astonishing Color of After: A Novel by Emily X. R.Pan ARC

Instructions for a Secondhand Heart: A Novel by Tamsyn Murray ARC

The Price of a Haircut: Stories by Brock Clarke ARC

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly ONE BOOK, ONE COMMUNITY READ 2018

Hard to Forget: an Alzheimer's Story by Charles P. Pierce
Reviewed here

Nine Irish Lives: The fighters, thinkers & artists who helped build America edited by Mark Bailey ARC

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and mourning on the American right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes ARC -- inscribed by author

What You Don't Know about Charlie Outlaw: A Novel by Leah Stewart ARC

The Hunger by Alma Katsu ARC

To Be Where You Are by Jan Karon ARC