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Like most of us, guest blogger Jamie Layton is a busy multitasking super woman. In today's post she takes us through the labyrinth of her reading month. Normal or not? You decide.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post asking if one bad apple can spoil the bunch and I got a ton of responses. Some were stories of success others of disaster. But each had something we can learn from.Today's post is a cautionary tale from Troubled in Anytown, US. She writes:
Over the course of my career, I have had the opportunity to interview all kinds of authors; first for a local Atlanta area radio show, and now for the Better World Books Podcast. Several of the authors, including Sarah Addison Allen (who I interviewed yesterday) have said they are committed to writing happy endings and are willing to take whatever criticism comes their way for that.
Who doesn’t love a good transformation? I mean, in goes a plain little caterpillar out comes a beautiful butterfly. Who doesn’t wish for a fairy godmother to wave a magic wand and transform her from a frazzled cinder sweeper to a beautiful princess? Well book clubs of the world, you are in luck. The Reading Group Guides Book Club Makeover is here.
Some say the book is going the way of the dinosaur. Not true. While the publishing world is evolving with new delivery methods and struggles over price, you all just keep on reading. You probably started out thinking of reading as something you did alone in your cave, but if you're anything like me you'd finish a book and have a million things to say. So, out of the cave we came and the evolution of the book club began.
This month's Book Clubs News is all about pairings: books and wine, books and flowers, books and TV, books and business. These are a few of my favorite things. Apparently books are the new cheese. They make everything taste better and they go great with a bold Cabernet.TriCityHerald.com: Winery Ships Book Club Picks With Wine
Guest blogger Denise Neary is fast becoming our "finder of cool and interesting things about books". Today is no exception. Check out Denise's review of the famous independent bookstore Politics and Prose and the cool award they are getting!Have you ever thought of your reading habit as an expression of your civil liberties?
In the last several months, since I started managing this lovely blog, I've had lots of great emails from all different kinds of book clubs; some large, some small, some where people are the same age and have similar backgrounds and some where everyone is very different. Then there are some that are open to new members or to the public and some that are not. And this got me thinking...
In today's guest post Ingrid Jendrzejewski gives us an update on the 38 Plays in 38 Days Project and all the fun derivations people have come up with.
