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• in Politics
  SarahPAC Becomes Palin's Book Club
  $63,000 of her funds went toward sending donors a copy of her book.
  by sussman / on Feb 1, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “book clubs”

 

• Mother’s Day from a Distance

  
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  from Mia Marlowe… I’m in Boston. My mom is in the Midwest. We keep in touch through frequent calls and on Facebook, but it’s so not the same as being in the same town and being part of each other’s lives every day. However, I did get a chance to see her for a few days before the RT convention last week ...
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• Colbert Starts a Book Club

  
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• GOOD NEWS and SAD NEWS!!

  
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  Today some GOOD NEWS and SAD NEWS! (Kathi Macias talking about her novel People of the Book! Great discussion, life changing book and transparent author!) - I miss our meeting space too! Our store has down sized - we no longer have this place! GOOD NEWS! The Book Club Network is taking off and BOOK FUN his ...
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• Housewives with shiny knives

  
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  The announcement for a new anthology of crime stories couldn’t come at a better time. As you may have gathered, May is Mystery Month at Booklist and Short Story Month everywhere. In August, fans of both can enjoy an anthology with a great title: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives : Stories from the ...
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• Crime in short form: Akashic’s Urban Noir series

  
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  May is Short Story Month . This is a great time to ease a book group into approaching the short story with more than just trepidation. And what better way than to coat the short story in a little urban grit to make it go down smoother? Start with Akashic Books ‘noir’ series and look for your book group’s ...
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• Stephen Colbert Starts ‘cOlbert’s Book Club’ with ‘The Great Gatsby’

  
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  The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert plans to launch “cOlbert’s Book Club.” For the first installment of this humorous “rip off” of  Oprah Winfrey ‘s book club, Colbert plans to discuss The Great Gatsby  by  F. Scott Fitzgerald . Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jennifer Egan and   filmmaker ...
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• Review: A Spear of Summer Grass & Giveaway

  
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  Summary: Paris, 1923 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfathers savanna manor house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is ...
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• Titles Discussed at the AAUW Readers Bring-a-Book Meeting, Thursday May 2

  
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      RECEIVE ME FALLING by Erika Robuck. Bea described this novel as historical fiction with some supernatural elements. This was Robuck’s first novel, self-published in 2009. Her second and third books have been published by NAL/Penguin. You can learn more about her at www.erikarobuck.com . Bea Also informed us ...
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• Crime Fiction with Issues: El Gavilan

  
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  Book gro ups like mystery novels and they like books that provide many topics for discussion. For book group facilitators who make great efforts to find crime fiction that fits the bill, have a look at El Gavilan by Craig McDonald. McDonald has been gaining popularity for his Hector Lassiter books, crime ...
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• Winner Circle Q & A: Book Reviewers, Book Clubs, Competitions and Deals

  
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  Send to Kindle In case you want to learn more about the new Winner Circle before you join… Or if you’ve already joined and have a question… It might already have been answered! We’ve now built a list of frequently asked questions that will address each menu item in the circle, as well as an FAQ ...
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• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Offering Deals on Five Books Each Month

  
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  Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has launched a new promotion that offers five books for digital readers each month for only $2.99. Each month has a theme, and May’s is for reading groups. Here’s what they have to say about this promotion, called Take 5 . “It’s the very first month of our brand new ...
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• How We Chose What to Read Next

  
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  How We Chose What to Read Next Recently we read an article that was posted on the Opinion Pages of the New York Times website about their selection process around choosing which books to read and review.  It turns out that their “process” involves a complete lack of communication between the three staff book ...
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• Interview with George Estreich, Author of The Shape of the Eye

  
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  Photo by Ellie Estreich With the birth of his daughter Laura, who has Down Syndrome, George Estreich and his wife entered an unfamiliar world that brought them into contact with medical specialists, behavioral and nutritional advisors, and situations they had not encountered with their older daughter. His moving ...
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• Book Review: The Shape of the Eye by George Estreich

  
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  When George Estreich’s second daughter was born, the doctor commented on her almond-shaped eyes and wondered if she may have Down Syndrome. George and his wife didn’t think much of it because his mother is Japanese. But when tests confirmed the doctor’s diagnosis, the Estreich’s entered a world they had no ...
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• Review: A Thousand Pardons (Audio)

  
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  Summary: Once a privileged and loving couple, the Armsteads have now reached a breaking point. Ben, a partner in a prestigious law firm, has become unpredictable at work and withdrawn at home—a change that weighs heavily on his wife, Helen, and their preteen daughter, Sara. Then, in one afternoon, Ben’s ...
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• Manly Men reading Manly Books

  
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  When I give workshops about book groups the #1 conundrum presented during the Q&A is “how do we get more men to attend?” My stock answer is always, “Men are reading. But most of the men I know don’t want to schedule a time to talk about what they’re reading. The book conversation is happening w hen the ...
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• Review: The Garden of Evening Mists

  
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  Summary: Its Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. There she ...
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• Review: Reconstructing Amelia (Audio)

  
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  Summary: When Kate, single mother and law firm partner, gets an urgent phone call summoning her to her daughters exclusive private school, shes shocked. Amelia has been suspended for cheating, something that would be completely out of character for her over-achieving, well-behaved daughter.  Kate rushes to Grace ...
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• Book Review: In Disguise! by Ryan Ann Hunter

  
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  Throughout history women have played a crucial role in conflicts and wars as spies. Women experienced just as much danger as men, and sometimes they were able to flush out secrets even better than men could, because they were not suspected or were thought to be incapable of understanding the information. In ...
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• Book Group Toolbox #36: Practical Classics

  
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  There are lots of books in my Book Group Toolbox, but this one, Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touches Since High School , is going to be the source I consult when the group wants to read a classic. Author Kevin Smokler understands why and how classics can become shoved aside by ...
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