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Today's guest blogger is Laura Pedersen, who shares some of her favorite book club stories. I've had the pleasure of knowing Laura for years, since the publication of her novel Beginner's Luck about teenage card sharp Hallie Palmer. Her stories and one-liners always leave me laughing.

Today, Outer Banks bookseller and RGG.com contributor Jamie Layton offers some food for thought: in this poor economy, consider keeping your dollars in the community by shopping local --- and how reading groups can make a difference. Independent bookstores have a lot to offer book clubs and vice-versa. Read on for some of Jamie's suggestions.

Book club members and other bibliophiles were beckoned to a gathering in New York City on Monday night to celebrate National Reading Group Month. Five fiction writers entertained the audience during the event, which was moderated by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp, authors of The Book Club Cookbook.The authors and their books:

This past Saturday in Boston, bibliophiles gathered to celebrate National Reading Group Month, an initiative of the Women's National Book Association. One of the featured authors, Deborah Noyes, shares with us what happened at the event. Deborah is the author of the novel Angel and Apostle, which imagines the life of Hester Prynne's daughter, Pearl, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Last night while attending Book Group Expo in San Jose, California, I had the chance to interview Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain, for Book Club Girl on Air.

Today's guest blogger, Margaret Cezair-Thompson, shares some insights about her novel The Pirate's Daughter. Set on a small island off the coast of Jamaica, it's the story of two women --- Ida, a local girl who has an affair with swashbuckling movie star Errol Flynn, and their daughter, May, who meets her father only once.

Halloween is around the corner, and if you're looking for a scary read Shannon McKenna Schmidt has a suggestion.

This month, Heather Johnson's book club took a different approach to their discussion --- with great success...

I had the pleasure of going to an advance screening of The Secret Life of Bees movie on Wednesday night. What a lovely, beautifully shot and well-cast film. I really enjoyed it.

Occasionally we highlight news articles featuring book clubs across the country. This month's round-up ranges from young readers in California to a Pennsylvania reading group that has been meeting for 40 years.Contra Costa Times: The Real Breakfast of Champions --- Books!Early risers meet for the Breakfast Book Club, a discussion group started by a California elementary school "to encourage life-long readers."