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Historical novelist Vanora Bennett muses on what modern-day women have in common with the main character in Figures in Silk, a successful London businesswoman during the Middle Ages. Vanora is also the author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman, a novel set in sixteenth-century England.
Sarah Addison Allen, today's guest blogger, talks about how the comforts of books, food and friendship enjoyed by the characters in her most recent novel, The Sugar Queen, are the same ones that hold many book clubs together.
Today's guest blogger, Lynne Griffin, is a family life expert, a parenting columnist and the author of Negotiation Generation: Take Back Your Parental Authority Without Punishment.
Today we have a Q&A with Kate Jacobs, the author of Comfort Food, The Friday Night Knitting Club and its sequel, Knit Too, who talks with some 40 book clubs every month.
Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife has garnered a lot of fans here at ReadingGroupGuides.com and elsewhere. Last month librarians Sonja Somerville, Robin Beerbower and Elizabeth Hughes shared their opinions of the novel.
Stefan Merrill Block's debut novel, The Story of Forgetting (on sale today in paperback), depicts one family's poignant battle with Alzheimer's. In today's guest blog post, Stefan shares what interests him the most about The Story of Forgetting being discussed by book clubs.
General book discussion groups are cropping up everywhere --- informally talking about a range of books rather than one specific title. I recently had an impromptu chat on Facebook with several people about Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife. (Look for Robert's post here on the blog later this week.) And the Somerset Public Library in Somerset, Massachusetts, recently launched an informal book chat group.
What are book clubs reading right now? In a recent ReadingGroupGuides.com newsletter for registered book clubs, we asked people to share some of their spring and summer discussion picks with us. On groups' lists is an interesting mix of newly published titles, established book club favorites and a few lesser-known reads. Thank you to everyone who responded!
In a guest post on ReadingGroupGuides.com, Laurie R. King talked about the Virtual Book Club (VBC) on her website.
