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October 20, 2010

Top Ten Classics

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Today I thought I'd share some more of our 10th Anniversary Contest Results.  Here are the top 10 classic books for book club (in alphabetical order):
October 19, 2010

To Start or To Join... That is the Question...

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Whether it is better to find an existing book club that's taking new members or start a new one? Okay - that's enough of my play on Shakespeare... but you get the idea.  If you're not currently in a book club but would like to be that is probably the first question you ask.  And though your gut may be telling you that you want to start a new book club, your head may be saying "No, no... too much work... too much responsibility.... I don't know how... etc."
October 18, 2010

Boston: One City One Story

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This past weekend I got to be a part of the 2nd annual Boston Book Festival.  (I was there in the wind manning a booth as part of my job for Better World Books).  While there I learned about ther Once City One Story project and thought I'd share it with you.
October 15, 2010

Top 10 Strange Book Club Choices

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Here's another list we got from our 10th Anniversary Contest.  These were some of the most unexpected selections you submitted as your "favorite discussion books".  And these were surprising to say the least. Perhaps each on it's own not sooo strange - but all together - you'll admit - definitely strange!
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. 
October 11, 2010

No Honey... Graphic, Not Graphic!

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In today's post, regular contributor Heather Johnson (Age 30+ ...
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: