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Yesterday reading group members shared stories of hard-to-find books. Today some RGG.com readers offer advice on how to avoid the book-finding dilemma.Book Club in a Bag
In last week's newsletter to RGG.com registered book clubs, I wrote about a friend who had been all over Manhattan trying to get a copy of his group's next pick: The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm. It came out 10 years ago. No bookstores stocked it, not even the Strand, which has an astounding 18 miles of new and used books. Also, the entire New York City library system has only three copies of it, all of which were checked out and with a 35-person waiting list.
It's a new year of book club visits for novelist and creative writing professor Joshua Henkin.
I love Oscar night. I get into the evening from the fashions to the acceptance speeches. Last night I was watching one of the endless pre-Oscar shows and I was thinking I wish there was a category called Books Into Movies. I know there is one for screenplay adaptation, but I would love one that looks only at movies that were based on books. Since so much great material can be found in books, I would love to have a moment for this to be acknowledged.
How important is the ending of a novel, for both the writer and the reader? Guest blogger Owen Sheers explores this question and shares how the conclusion of his novel Resistance has led to some lively book club discussions.
February 19, 2009
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: "What Made You Write Something So Different?"
Today's guest blogger, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, talks about what inspired her to write her most recent novel, The Palace of Illusions, and some of the challenges she faced in re-telling a 5,000-year-old Indian epic.
ReadingGroupGuides.com contributor and book club facilitator Esther Bushell recommends some page-turners that will make for great discussions...
Katherine Center is no stranger to reading groups, having visited "tons" of them to talk about her novel The Bright Side of Disaster.
