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February 26, 2010

Brave the Snow: Support Your Local Bookstore

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Today's guest blogger and bookseller Jamie Layton tells us how bad the snow is for local independent stores of all kinds and asks you to help them weather the storm.Let it snow, make it go, oh NO!
February 25, 2010

Chris Cleave: Little Bee

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Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee and today's guest blogger, talks about how much book clubs mean to writers and just how generally great they (we) are.
February 24, 2010

Shakespeare Reading Group: 38 Plays in 38 Days

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Today's guest blogger Ingrid Jendrzejewski explains why she decided to do something as crazy as read all of Shakespeare's works in ridiculously short period of time and why she thinks you should join her.Extreme Shakespeare: Reading Shakespeare's 38 plays in as many days
February 23, 2010

Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project

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Today's guest blogger Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project talks about reading groups (our favorite topic) and why they make her happy.
February 22, 2010

Mahbod Seraji: Rooftops of Tehran

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Community and college reads are becoming more and more popular and we here at ReadingGroupGuides.com couldn't be happier. For what is a community or college reading program, but a really, really big reading group? In today's guest post, Mahbod Seraji author of Rooftops of Tehran talks about his experience with Villanova University.
February 19, 2010

Book Clubs in the News

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In this month's round up of Book Clubs in the News checkout a festival celebrating Zora Neale Hurston, a book focused community center, a new online reading group and details on an unauthorized Oprah biography.QuillandQuire.com: New Literary Community Center in TorontoLocal Toronto book club facilitator Marilyn Herbert opens a community center focused on books, book clubs and other literary programming.
February 18, 2010

Book Club Retreat: To plan or not to plan...

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Today's guest blogger Denise Neary gives us the skinny on planning and re-planning a book club retreat when the snow just won't stop.Thinking about planning a book club retreat? Forget the planning. Wait until the last minute, and pull something out of your sleeve!
February 17, 2010

Kirk Farber: Postcards from a Dead Girl

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In today's guest post, author Kirk Farber talks about his new novel POSTCARDS FROM A DEAD GIRL. Sometimes in these intro paragraphs I like to sum up what the author is talking about and hopefully get you interested enough to read on. In this case I think Kirk's blog title says it all. Enjoy!
February 16, 2010

Books on a Plane: Top 5

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Last week was a travel week for me. I was lucky enough to leave the cold and head out to Palm Springs, CA for the TED Active conference. As always I got on the plane armed with books. When headed to the west coast, I used to be able to read an entire book on the plane, but now I seem to be a little too sleepy for that. So I’ll start a book on the plane and then continue reading in my hotel room. It’s funny, though I watch a fair amount of TV at home, I rarely turn it on in a hotel room. But I digress.
February 15, 2010

Kathleen Grissom: The Kitchen House

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Guest blogger author Kathleen Grissom joins us today to talk about researching her historical novel THE KITCHEN HOUSE, and how all the little bits and pieces came together and took on a life of their own.