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Archives - December 2009
Kudos to this intrepid blogger for compiling an ever-growing list of 'Best Books of 2009' database. We all should thank him.
In previous RGG.com blog posts Denise Neary has shared the story of how she came to found the book club The Red Balloons with her daughter, as well as why Jodi Picoult's novel My Sister's Keeper led to the group's best discussion. Today, Denise tells us about a valuable reading group resource.
Today, Emilie Richards brings us some festive cheer with a fun holiday jingle, "Mary Reader," written especially for booklovers and that can be sung along to the tune of a popular Christmas carol.Emilie's most recent novel is Happiness Key, the story of four women who have nothing in common...or so it seems. She is also the author of the Ministry is Murder series and the Shenandoah Album series.
Hope Edelman, today's guest blogger, recounts how she came to be sitting in a Los Angeles living room with the very first book group to read and discuss her memoir The Possibility of Everything...and why their encounter was different from what she had envisioned.Hope is the author of five nonfiction books, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers.
Laura Kasischke, today's guest blogger, shares the inspiration behind the writing of her novel In a Perfect World --- fairy tales, the Black Death and the question "What if?" She also reveals the kind of writing she loves and what she, in turn, makes sure to give the readers of her stories.
Yesterday Marsha Toy Engstrom told us about the many ways the members of her northern California book club, Readers in the Hood, lend a helping hand in their community. Today several other reading group members share their stories on giving back.
Marsha Toy Engstrom and her book club, Readers in the Hood, do a lot more than get together and discuss books. They lend a helping hand in various ways in their northern California community.In today's post, Marsha talks about some of their endeavors, like donating books to the library of a preschool for homeless and underprivileged children (see photo below)...and why they're actually the selfish ones.
