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Mark your calendars! The third annual National Reading Group Month is taking place in October. Sponsored by the Women's National Book Association (WNBA), events will take place across the country in association with the organization's 10 chapters --- including one in Charlotte, North Carolina, where a chapter was launched earlier this year.

The latest Bookreporter.com Bets On... pick is a debut novel: Heather Gudenkauf's The Weight of Silence. After the disappearance of two young girls, one of whom is selectively mute, family secrets surface. I read this book in one day, drawn in by the Prologue and riveted until the last page.

Book club facilitator and RGG.com contributor Esther Bushell has been busy turning the pages, and she offers her thoughts on some of the books she has read this summer. She also shares some terrific news: the launch of her website, LiteraryMatters.net.

Krish Radish takes us behind the scenes of a writer's life --- and into her mind --- in today's guest blog post. Her latest novel, The Shortest Distance Between Two Women, takes the emotional measure of mothers, daughters, sisters and friends. Is Emma Lauryn Gilford on the verge of a breakdown...or a breakthrough?

ReadingGroupGuides.com contributor Joshua Henkin, who regularly meets with book clubs to discuss his novel Matrimony, was interviewed on NPR's Word of Mouth about his "literary road show."

The discussion guide for The Time Traveler's Wife consistently makes the ReadingGroupGuides.com list of Ongoing Favorites.

At the BookExpo America trade show a couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel with four fabulous book club facilitators --- one of whom was Marsha Toy Engstrom, the Book Club Cheerleader™.As today's guest blogger, Marsha offers suggestions on how book clubs can utilize the wealth of resources at their local libraries.

Today's guest blogger, novelist Hannah Tinti, reveals the mysterious object she brings to the book clubs she visits to talk about The Good Thief and how this item relates to the story.

Here's a look at what freshmen entering college this fall have been asked to read by their respective schools. Lots of nonfiction and memoirs, some fiction and even a few graphic novels. How many of these books has your group read? And which ones are you inspired to read?The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie - Texas Tech UniversityThe Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal - San Diego State UniversityAtlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Fayetteville State University

Opening today in theaters is the movie version of Julie Powell's Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. Are you planning to see it with your book club? Tell us all about it in the comments section.Here are some Julie & Julia resources:Book discussion guide