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I love Oscar night. I get into the evening from the fashions to the acceptance speeches. Last night I was watching one of the endless pre-Oscar shows and I was thinking I wish there was a category called Books Into Movies. I know there is one for screenplay adaptation, but I would love one that looks only at movies that were based on books. Since so much great material can be found in books, I would love to have a moment for this to be acknowledged.
How important is the ending of a novel, for both the writer and the reader? Guest blogger Owen Sheers explores this question and shares how the conclusion of his novel Resistance has led to some lively book club discussions.
February 19, 2009
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: "What Made You Write Something So Different?"
Today's guest blogger, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, talks about what inspired her to write her most recent novel, The Palace of Illusions, and some of the challenges she faced in re-telling a 5,000-year-old Indian epic.
ReadingGroupGuides.com contributor and book club facilitator Esther Bushell recommends some page-turners that will make for great discussions...
Katherine Center is no stranger to reading groups, having visited "tons" of them to talk about her novel The Bright Side of Disaster.
Today's guest blogger, Therese Fowler, talks about what she expects from the fiction she reads --- and how she strives to give her readers the same thing in her stories.
Laurie R. King has reason to celebrate: February 1 marked the 15th anniversary of the publication of The Beekeeper's Apprentice, her first Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes novel. The ninth book in the series, The Language of Bees, hits stores on April 28th.
Debut author Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help --- which I have written/raved/obsessed about over the past two months --- went on sale this week.
Yesterday Susan Rebecca White, whose debut novel Bound South is on sale this week, revealed how, for her, being a member of a reading group goes way beyond talking about the book selections.
