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Archives - August 2008
Deborah Rodriguez spent several years living in Afghanistan, an experience she recounts in Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil.
Today's guest blogger, Lisa See, shares her first book club memory --- accompanying her parents to a unisex discussion group in the 1960s --- and how she has seen book clubs change over the years. Lisa is the author of numerous books, including the novels Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love.
Today, Pamela Fierro of Virginia Beach, Virginia, talks about what inspired her to start a Mother/Daughter book club and how the lively discussion group has since become an annual summer tradition for her twin daughters and some of their friends.
While many of you are getting to know Mindy Schneider now through her memoir, Not a Happy Camper, I actually have known her since she was a summer intern with me at Conde Nast. At that time she was very happy that I never turned her in to the higher ups for her poor typing skills. What she did not know is that we kept her on for her dry wit.
Does the success of book groups come down to biology? Read on to find out why Jennie Shortridge thinks so. Jennie is the author of several novels, the most recent of which is Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe.
Guest blogger Patricia Wood took a friend and fellow author's advice after the publication of her first novel, Lottery, and began talking with reading groups about the book. Many discussions later, she shares several things she has learned along the way. Patricia lives on a sailboat moored in Hawaii, and you can visit her blog here.
Yesterday contributor Heather Johnson talked about her reading group's first-ever meeting with an author, D. L. Wilson, to discuss his debut novel, Unholy Grail. Today we hear from Wilson, who shares his perspective on his first-ever meeting with a book club.
