In today's post, regular contributor Denise Neary shares her love of YA books (and I have to admit - I'm a sucker for them too), and introduces to an up and coming YA author!
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Today I thought I'd share some more of our 10th Anniversary Contest Results. Here are the top 10 classic books for book club (in alphabetical order):
Whether it is better to find an existing book club that's taking new members or start a new one?
Okay - that's enough of my play on Shakespeare... but you get the idea. If you're not currently in a book club but would like to be that is probably the first question you ask. And though your gut may be telling you that you want to start a new book club, your head may be saying "No, no... too much work... too much responsibility.... I don't know how... etc."
This past weekend I got to be a part of the 2nd annual Boston Book Festival. (I was there in the wind manning a booth as part of my job for Better World Books). While there I learned about ther Once City One Story project and thought I'd share it with you.
Here's another list we got from our 10th Anniversary Contest. These were some of the most unexpected selections you submitted as your "favorite discussion books". And these were surprising to say the least.
Perhaps each on it's own not sooo strange - but all together - you'll admit - definitely strange!
Keep up with the Seattle7Writers.org collective as they complete their Novel Live project. Yes, 36 authors, working in two-hour shifts, have written a novel that will raise money for literacy programs and become an eBook soon...How cool!!
The 10 Best Dressed authors, featuring, of course, the dapper Tom Wolfe...
As most of you know, we're celebrating our 10th Anniversary here at RGG! And as part of that we ran a contest all summer where we asked you to send us your favorite discussion books of all time. We had over 12,000 responses which we scoured to pick out the 10 most popular titles. Without further ado, here they are:
Today's guest blogger is Bernhard Schlink, best known for his book THE READER. He has a new book out that may prove to be just as impactful as THE READER and promises to stir up some excellent conversation for your book club. It's called THE WEEKEND and deals with terrorism from a different point of view - that of the terrorist and his friends and family as they gather upon his release from prison. In today
I've been to a fair number of author events in my day from luncheons to bookstore readings to schmancy book launch cocktail parties and the more I think about it the more I realize I have rarely been to one of these events where there weren't other authors in attendance showing their support.
