It's voting time again. Since it will be close to 12:00pm here in the UK shortly, 

I decided to keep the voting hours to 24 hours, so you have until

Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at 12:00pm BST to pick. 

Just leave a comment with your choice.

Thanks for helping me end this game and thanks

to BL'ers MR and OB for creating the game.

Choice #1

The Making of the President 1972 by Theodore White (2010 edition)

513 NOOK pages

The Making of the President 1972 is the fourth book in Theodore H. White’s landmark series, a riveting account of the 1972 presidential campaign and Richard M. Nixon’s precedent-shattering landslide victory. White had made history with his groundbreaking narrative The Making of the President 1960, winning the Pulitzer Prize for revolutionizing the way that presidential campaigns were reported. Now, The Making of the President 1972—back in print, freshly repackaged, and with a new foreword by Cokie Roberts—joins Theodore Sorensen’s Kennedy, White’s The Making of the President 1960, 1964, and 1968, and other classics in the burgeoning Harper Perennial Political Classics series. 

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Choice #2

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Olsen and

Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim 

320 Kindle pages

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is Alison Arngrim’s comic memoir of growing up as one of television’s most memorable characters—the devious Nellie Oleson on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie. With behind-the-scenes stories from the set, as well as tales from her bohemian upbringing in West Hollywood and her headline-making advocacy work on behalf of HIV awareness and abused children, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is a must for fans of everything Little House: the classic television series and its many stars like Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert; Gilbert’s bestselling memoir Prairie Tale... and, of course, the beloved series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder that started it all.

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Choice #3

Beguiled by Deeanne Gist and Mark Bertrand

332 pages

Rylee Monroe walks dogs in old-money Charleston, a part of the city recently targeted by a daring thief. Logan Woods works the crime beat for the local paper but dreams of a life as a nonfiction writer. When the string of robberies takes a strange twist, Logan sees the making of a once-in-a-lifetime book that seems to circle around this charming, eye-catching dogwalker. But pursuing the truth means ignoring that he seems to be falling for her. And what is she hiding in her past that could crack the story wide open?

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Choice #4

A Change of Fortune (Ladies of Distinction #1) by Jen Turano

320 pages

Lady Eliza Sumner is on a mission. Her fortune was the last thing she had left after losing her father, her fiancé, and her faith. Now, masquerading as Miss Eliza Sumner, governess-at-large, she's determined to find the man who ran off with her fortune, reclaim the money, and head straight back to London.

Mr. Hamilton Beckett, much to his chagrin, is the catch of the season, and all the eyes of New York society—all the female ones, at least—are on him. He has no plans to marry again, especially since his hands are full keeping his business afloat while raising his two children alone.

Eliza's hapless attempts to regain her fortune unexpectedly put her right in Hamilton's path. The discovery of a common nemesis causes them to join forces and, before she knows it, Eliza has a whole retinue of people helping her. Eliza's determination not to trust anyone weakens when everyone's antics and bumbling efforts to assist her make her wonder if there might be more important things than her fortune and independence.

When all of Hamilton's and Eliza's best-laid plans fall by the wayside, it will take a riot of complications for them to realize that God just might have had a better plan in mind all along.

My oldest is home today due to one of his wisdom teeth coming in a very painful way (painful enough to make him not sleep at all last night and nauseous which led to mommy cleaning up puke from my living room floor and the 24hour convenience store on base this morning). He is finally sleeping and not in pain, so he is on the road to recovery. 

My reading plans include finishing The Fifth Risk and start working on President 1972. I borrowed season six of Call the Midwife, so that will be my binge watching for the week. My daughter is competing in the British Ishin Ryu Ju-Jitsu Championships on Sunday, so I get to spend Mother's Day in Newmarket watching my girl throw other kids to the floor/get thrown to the floor.. It is her first competition (unfortunately, also her last as her type of ju-jitsu is not taught back in the US so she will have to find a new martial art to study when we move next month).

Hope you all have a safe, wonderful weekend (and here's to hoping the rain will stop and it warms up a bit - hey England, it's May for FFS).

1. The Making of the President 1972 by Theodore White

          Nixon Reading List

2. Are You There Coffee? It Me, Mom by Kianna Alexander

          In honor of Mother's Day; my plans are to attend my daughter's jiu-jitsu championships (her first!)

3. We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by Jose Andres et al

           Library borrow

4. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Dr. Damon Tweedy

           Library borrow

5. Better Off Wed (Annabelle Archer Mystery #1) by Laura Durham

6. Love on the Prairie (McKinnie Mail Order Brides #1) by Ciara Knight

                Historical romance on my NOOK

7. All I Am by Nicole Helm

          The start of my Summer of Love reading project

8. A Change of Fortune (Ladies of Distinction #1) by Jen Turano

           Summer of Love reading project

9. Beguiled by Deeanne Gist, J. Mark Bertrand

             Summer of Love reading project

10. A Gentleman For All Seasons anthology, "A Madness in Spring" by Kate Noble

               Summer of Love reading project

We have an official announcement and a pack of paperwork so the assignment move is for real and moving more rapidly than we thought. We leave the UK mid-June and have to be at our next base by the end of June (so no taking a vacation to visit family). So I have a lot on my plate, but this being the military, every office/department we visit to get clearance/signed off on our outprocessing checklist involves a lot of waiting room and ques. Perfect time to read a few pages that add up to chapters finished by the end of the day. My kids still have a month of their extracurricular activities, so our weekends are going to be busy as well.

I hope to start my last two library borrows, We Fed an Island and Black Man in a White Coat. I also want to finish 1969 so that I can get to 1972 starting in May.

So far, I have read two books off the list: Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell. I got lucky and found in really good condition a copy of All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in the free book swap area of my library. 

Next up is getting to 1968 by Mark Kurlansky and The Making of a President 1972 by Theodore White. This will set me up to reading about Watergate during the summer and giving me time to tackle Shadow from September to December.

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Inspired by the podcasts Slow Burn (season one) from Slate and Bagman by Rachel Maddow, I decided to do a deep dive into the Nixon administration, specifically Watergate.  I already read the Nixon/Ford section of Clint Hill's Five Presidents just to get my feet wet. I may not get to all of these, but I hope to read enough to have a good grasp on what happened.

My Nixon Reading List:

1. 1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky

2. Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell (Read March 2019)

3. The Making of a President 1972 by Theodore White

4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

5. All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

6. Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward (Read January 2019)

7. The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It by John Dean

8. Breach of Faith: The Fall of Nixon by Theodore White

9. Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate  by Bob Woodward

10. The Nixon Tapes 1971-1972 by Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter