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In today's post, contributor and book store owner Jamie Layton talks about the difficulties of keeping a book club fresh and fun and explains how our Advice for New Book Clubs can be just as helpful to reinvigorate a group that's been around awhile.

The ReadingGroupGuides.com list of New Favorites is my favorite list yet.

In Jacqueline Luckett's debut novel, Searching for Tina Turner, Lena Spencer lives a life of luxury. But all is not as it seems. Her husband is emotionally distant, her son has a drug habit and her daughter is disgusted by her mother's overbearing behavior. Money, Lena realizes, can't solve her problems, and when her husband gives her an ultimatum she chooses a different path.

At the end of every year the editors of ReadingGroupGuides.com take a look back at the year and put together their best of the best in three categories; Enduring Favorites, New Favorites and Ongoing Favorites.

At the end of every year the editors of ReadingGroupGuides.com take a look back at the year and put together their best of the best in three categories; Enduring Favorites, New Favorites and Ongoing Favorites.

For today's post, my conversation with Janice Y.K. Lee, author of THE PIANO TEACHER continues.As Janice and I continued to chat, we got into a little bit more about her experience writing the book and how it has been received by readers and book clubs.

I had the privilege of sitting down for a chat with author Janice Y.K. Lee while she was in Atlanta on tour to promote the trade paperback release of THE PIANO TEACHER. In today's post I thought I'd share Janice's comments on the story, the setting and her wonderful characters.

Today's guest blogger is Ad Hudler is a novelist, essayist, stay-at-home dad and small-space landscaper who frequently gets into trouble for the things he writes and says. New York Post called his latest book MAN OF THE HOUSE "required reading."

In this month's round up of Book Clubs in the News checkout the slowest book club on record, a new book club TV Show in the UK and some novel ideas for showier kinds of book clubs.Boston Globe: Cheers to the End of ‘Finnegans Wake’And you thought you were slow? A Boston book club takes 13 years to finish James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and marks the end with a celebratory toast.

Barbara O'Neal, today's guest blogger and bestselling author of THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS tells us how she fell in love with breakfast and how that love inspired her latest novel, THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING.