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

Welcome to the 6th and final installment of "From the Publishers:  Hot Fall Book Club Titles"!  In case you haven't read the earlier segments, the publishers got together for a chat at last month's BookExpo America and presented their company's hot fall book club picks.  And I'm running through them here so that you'll have lots to consider in the upcoming months.  The last editor to speak was Jane von Mehren, Senior VP/Publisher Trade Paperbacks from Random House.  Here's what she presented:

Howard Slaughter fondly remembers the Saturday morning trips to the local library where his daughter, Karin, would get lost in aisles for hours at a time. That was his first inkling that his daughter was on the path to writing, and years later he offered his blessing when Karin said she was going to pursue writing full time. Howard Slaughter’s intuition served him well as Karin Slaughter is now the author of several bestsellers.