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February 26, 2009

Hard-to-Find Book Club Selections Part II

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Yesterday reading group members shared stories of hard-to-find books. Today some RGG.com readers offer advice on how to avoid the book-finding dilemma.Book Club in a Bag
February 25, 2009

Hard-to-Find Book Club Selections Part I

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In last week's newsletter to RGG.com registered book clubs, I wrote about a friend who had been all over Manhattan trying to get a copy of his group's next pick: The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm. It came out 10 years ago. No bookstores stocked it, not even the Strand, which has an astounding 18 miles of new and used books. Also, the entire New York City library system has only three copies of it, all of which were checked out and with a 35-person waiting list.
Yesterday Joshua Henkin, author of the novel Matrimony, answered some of the questions he's frequen
It's a new year of book club visits for novelist and creative writing professor Joshua Henkin.
February 22, 2009

Oscar Worthy Reading

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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.
February 20, 2009

Owen Sheers: The End

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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.
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.
February 18, 2009

Read Along with THE NEW YORKER

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Under the headline We Read to Know We Are Not Alone, aptly taken from a quote by C.S. Lewis, The New Yorker has announced the launch of "The Book Club." The online book club is a spinoff of The Book Bench, its excellent and entertaining blog "on all matters literary."
February 18, 2009

Esther Recommends

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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.