I am always looking for ways to promote the books I love and also talk about the books I love. Guess what? Kate (the Quirky Redhead) is too! Therefore we are going to have a Facebook book club for one of our favorite books from last year, The Fiddler's Gun by Pete Peterson. Here are all the details. It would mean so much to both of us if you would join our super fantastic book club. We'r...

The Local News by Miriam Gershow is out in paperback! I read and reviewed Miriam's novel when it was first out in hardcover and really enjoyed it (my review here). It's an emotional story of a girl coming of age at a time of tragedy in her family. I think it's a novel that would appeal to many and would also be a great novel to consider for your book clubs. Here's a bit about t...

The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is my in-person book club's pick for March. I actually think it will make for a really good discussion. (Oh, I would LOVE to talk to someone about how it ended!) Abby Mason loses her fiancee's daughter while walking on a foggy San Francisco beach. This book chronicles the year that follows. Abby never gives up her hope of ...

You can read all the publishing blogs in the world, but nothing beats a conversation with a published author--real-world interaction and publishing experience will always trump the glowing computer monitor. In an ongoing effort to build community among readers, writers, and publishing types in real life, we are hosting the inaugural mediabistro.com Book Club tomorrow night. The night will feature ...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of the novel A Fortunate Age, which was a New York Times Editors' Pick, a winner of the Elle Readers' Prize, a selection of Barnes and Noble's First Look Book Club, an IndieNext pick, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller.Her entry begins:Right now, I’m reading Meghan Daum’s deeply brilliant memoir, Life Would Be

The critics praised its 'startling originality', but Everything Is Illuminated is nowhere near equal the sum of its borrowed parts Few debuts have been so fulsomely praised as Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated. My Penguin edition comes with page after page of orgasmic appreciation: a tidal wave of "impressive", "smart", "wildly exuberant", "wonderful", "extraordinaril...

On Thursday, March 4th, Joan Schenkar, the author of “The Talented Miss Highsmith” (which we recently read in our book club), will give a lecture for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation at the...

Watch CBS News Videos Online This week CBS Evening News with Katie Couric turned the cameras on book clubs during a feature about Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel, The Help Via the magic of Skype video, some avid readers received some nightly news coverage. In the video above, Couric interviewed members of Jackson, Mississippi book club to find out what they thought about the novel's...

Book Aid International are showing two short films on their website about how books change lives.  A small monthy donation can make a huge difference to the lives of these people.  Even the cost of one paperback book every month can result in four or five books being sent to the poorer peoples of the world and be a huge encouragement to them. Why not join the Reverse Book Club today!

Joanna Smith Rakoff is the author of the novel A Fortunate Age, which was a New York Times Editors' Pick, a winner of the Elle Readers' Prize, a selection of Barnes and Noble's First Look Book Club, an IndieNext pick, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. As a journalist and critic, she's written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe,