Category Archives: Book Clubs

Book Club Survey

April 8, 2009 – 8:46 am

Calling all book clubs.  This is your chance to chime in on the Who, What, Where, When and Whys of your book group.  ReadingGroupGuides.com is conducting a national survey  in hopes of identifying trends and topics that will be useful to book clubs, publishers, book sellers and authors.  The survey takes about 12 minutes.  You [...]

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A Book That Speaks To The Strength Of Friendship

February 17, 2009 – 7:02 pm

The Middle PlaceApparently women, especially those in the sandwich generation like myself, want to read more from the author that spawned the You Tube viral hit (1.4 million hits to be exact) “Words On Women And Strength”.  Kelly Corrigan’s touching tribute to the women in her life is actually a passage from her memoir ‘The [...]

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A Chinese Memoir That Moms & Daughters Can Share

January 26, 2009 – 1:43 pm

In honor of Chinese New Years, I would like to recommend an older memoir ‘Falling Leaves’ by Adeline Yen Mah. It is a powerful story of growing up unwanted and unloved in a wealthy family on mainland China after the 1949 revolution. Adeline’s mother dies shortly after giving birth to her and from then on, [...]

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These Book Club ‘Picks’ Are Meant To Be Devoured

December 12, 2008 – 6:11 pm

The holidays are all about the food. Am I not correct? This was a big reason why my book club chose “A Trail Of Crumbs” by Kim Sunee as our December pick. The book is a lovely, poetic memoir about the author’s search for self & home using food as her anchor. Each of us [...]

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Are You Reading Lite?

February 6, 2008 – 7:22 pm

Are you looking for a good book to listen to? The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has just announced the finalists for the 2007 Audies that are awarded each spring at Book Expo America (BEA). Listening to a book rather than actually reading a book has been given the term Reading Lite by hard-core-book-group members. The [...]

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