In today's post, regular contributor Bonnie Brzozowski and her apprentice Meredith Watters talk about reading a somewhat different kind of graphic novel for this months Graphic Novels Book Club at the Austin Public Library.

In this month’s round-up we’ve got everything from the wisdom of the ages to new fangled gadgets to music to soothe the savage beast!

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.