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Do you want to talk about The Friday Night Knitting Club with other bibliophiles? Borders and WaldenBooks stores nationwide are hosting discussions of Kate Jacobs' bestselling novel next Thursday, April 23rd, at 7 p.m. All readers are welcome, whether members of a book club or not.

From a 70-year-old reading group north of the border to a Cape Town couple inspiring children's love of literature, book clubs are making headlines...Anderson Independent Mail: Book Chronicles Journey from Afghanistan to AndersonMembers of The Remainders in Anderson, South Carolina, were inspired to read a local doctor's autobiography, which served as a jumping-off point for a broader discussion about immigration.

Historical novelist Vanora Bennett muses on what modern-day women have in common with the main character in Figures in Silk, a successful London businesswoman during the Middle Ages. Vanora is also the author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman, a novel set in sixteenth-century England.

Sarah Addison Allen, today's guest blogger, talks about how the comforts of books, food and friendship enjoyed by the characters in her most recent novel, The Sugar Queen, are the same ones that hold many book clubs together.

Today's guest blogger, Lynne Griffin, is a family life expert, a parenting columnist and the author of Negotiation Generation: Take Back Your Parental Authority Without Punishment.

Today we have a Q&A with Kate Jacobs, the author of Comfort Food, The Friday Night Knitting Club and its sequel, Knit Too, who talks with some 40 book clubs every month.

Book clubs typically read and discuss an author's work after it's published.

Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife has garnered a lot of fans here at ReadingGroupGuides.com and elsewhere. Last month librarians Sonja Somerville, Robin Beerbower and Elizabeth Hughes shared their opinions of the novel.

Stefan Merrill Block's debut novel, The Story of Forgetting (on sale today in paperback), depicts one family's poignant battle with Alzheimer's. In today's guest blog post, Stefan shares what interests him the most about The Story of Forgetting being discussed by book clubs.

General book discussion groups are cropping up everywhere --- informally talking about a range of books rather than one specific title. I recently had an impromptu chat on Facebook with several people about Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife. (Look for Robert's post here on the blog later this week.) And the Somerset Public Library in Somerset, Massachusetts, recently launched an informal book chat group.