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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...
October 14, 2010

Your Top 10 Discussion Books!

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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:
October 13, 2010

Bernhard Schlink: THE WEEKEND

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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
October 12, 2010

Authors Supporting Authors

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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. 

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Sarah Rachel Egelman

High school senior Andi Alpers is full of anger and sadness. The tragic death of her younger brother has wrecked her family, sending her father away, her mother into a paralyzing depression, and Andi into a state of rage and hurt so deep it feels like suicide might be the only way to relieve the pain. She tries to manage the overwhelming hurt and sense of responsibility over Truman's passing with prescription drugs, but the only thing that really helps is music.

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Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi Alpers finds Alexandrine Paradis's diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession.

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Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi Alpers finds Alexandrine Paradis's diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession.

The Brave by Nicholas Evans

October 2010

Nicholas Evans has been a favorite author of mine for years. He writes brilliantly about human emotion and the human spirit. While he is best known for THE HORSE WHISPERER, I still am haunted by the story in THE DIVIDE, which brilliantly explored the unraveling of a marriage. There are lines he has written there that are brutally honest and refreshingly stark and bold. In each of his books, he treads into relationships that work only because he is brave enough to go there. And thinking of this, I realize how apt it is that his new book is called THE BRAVE.

October 11, 2010

No Honey... Graphic, Not Graphic!

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In today's post, regular contributor Heather Johnson (Age 30+ ...
Congrats to Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in literature... This NYC librarian has put together a list of books about, inspired by or featured on AMC's hit show "Mad Men," and now there's a wait list for most of the titles...
October 8, 2010

It's Kind of A Funny Story

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In today's post, regular contributor Denise Neary shares her review of the new movie It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on the book of the same name.  Consider reading the book and then doing an outing with your book club to catch the movie. Let’s hear it for a movie true to the book it is based on!
October 7, 2010

We Made the List: Top 50 Book Club Blogs

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Earlier this week the Masters in Education website released a list of the Top 50 Book Clubs to Inspire and Learn From and guess who made the list?  ReadingGroupGuides.com of course! We are proud to be a part of such a great list whose other members include: