I love that all of our regular contributors are getting out to the book festivals in and around where they live.  Well of course they are.  They wouldn't be regular contributors here on the RGG blog if they weren't book lovers.  Yesterday we heard from Heather Johnson on the Baltimore Book Festival and today Denise Neary shares some of the "wonder" of the National Book Festival in DC.

In today's guest post, regular contributor Heather Johnson shares some details from the Baltimore Book Festival.  Did you get a chance to go? Or will you be hitting any of the other Book Festivals this fall?  If not - change your plans.  They really are a lot of fun!

The Guardian offers its top 10 stories about sisters... Chin on hand, office candid and the rest of the author photo cliches... What to read on jury duty? Crime books, of course!

In today's guest post, Jamie Layton, Regular Contributor and Manager of Duck's Cottage Coffeeshop & Bookstore, talks about an experience she had at her store recently.  As a former independent bookstore owner myself - I totally get where she's coming from.  If you love your local independent and appreci

Fall is here, and with it wholesale changes to the IndieBound bestseller lists from California to the New York island, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters. Jonathan Franzen's new "great American novel" FREEDOM tops the lists, and not surprisingly. The hype machine was working overtime on this opus of the modern American family, and got to breathe a sigh of relief when Oprah annointed it her latest pick.

Check out Bookreporter.com's Coming Soon list to stay up to date on all the latest titles as well as those coming in the weeks and months ahead!  On Sale This Week:

The PEN American Center has just announced its 2010 Literary Awards.

You'd have to be living under a rock to have missed all the hub-bub and hype surrounding Jonathan Franzen's new novel FREEDOM.

Today's guest blogger is woman of many talents - she is not only the author of bestselling books but is also Editor-in-Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine.  In her latest book, THE WAVE, she takes the scientifc subject of 100 foot waves and goes personal, following both the scientists and the extreme surfers who follow the waves.  This kind of book may be a departure for your book club, but give it a try - I have found similar books (SHADOW DIVERS by Robert Kurson, for example) to be all the more compelling