I am in the process of downsizing and am having to think long and hard about my books.  I mean after all, I'm sure you can understand, I love my books.  And I have a lot of them. I have been collecting books since college which was longer ago than I'd care to admit and I even have some from before that.  And now I'm having to evaluate my collection and try to narrow it down to the most important ones to keep.

In today's post regular contributor Jamie Layton shares her choices for the beach this year.

Click here to read Carol's op-ed piece "Libraries and Librarians Are Endangered Species: What You Can Do to Help" from The Huffington Post...

I love that Oprah loves books.  It's good for books.  She can pick a book for her book club and sales will automatically go through the roof.  I think that says a lot... about her and about readers.

Today’s book clubs in the news post is really just a quick jaunt around the country to see whose reading what and with whom.  Enjoy! NewPages Blog:  Pen American Center launches new online reading group.

I have known (though somewhat vaguely) about meetup.com for some time now.  It's a website where people list meetings, right?  Single people use it I think and I guess other people?  Not sure.  I have some friends who have gone to meetups for both personal and professional reasons and found the groups to be great.  But that was all I knew a