Book Clubs

15 Questions Every Lady Book Club Should Ask

Jezebel | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Novels, Discussion Questions, Book Clubs, Jane Austen, Books, Thought Provoking Questions, Book of the Month, Women News

Book clubs can be a wonderful way for like-minded people to get together and share their love of literature. Maybe you're long out of college and miss...

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Moms' Club: The New Happy Hour?

Laura Rossi Totten | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Make Mine a Double, Playdates, Tlc, Alcohol, Sex and the City, Gina-Barreca, Book Clubs, Parenting, Drinking, What Not to Wear, Parents-Moms, Parents News

Why is it that as soon as we become mothers, we are expected to leave our cosmos at the bar and settle for reruns of Sex and the City?

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The Itsy-Bitsy Book Club

Anna Leahy | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Book Clubs, Books, Lynn Kilpatrick, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Barbara Comyns, In the House, Danielle Dutton, Books News

I've resisted joining a book club. I dread fitting another thing into my schedule. My friend came up with an alternative: The Itsy-Bitsy Book Club. It's just the two of us. It's just one book once a year.

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Notes From My (Book)shelf: Week of April 23, 2012

Roxanne Coady | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Jack Finney, Girls, 50 Shades of Grey, Sherry Turkle, Mitch Joel, Just the Right Book, Roxanne Coady, Book Clubs, Six Pixels of Separation, Lena Dunham, Book Recommendations, Best Books April 2012, Book List, Best Books, Best Books 2012, Books News

Since there is an astonishing amount of information out there, I thought it might be fun to share with you items I have noticed, learned or was curious about in the past week.

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'What It Is Like To Go To War': War In Your Words

Annemarie Dooling | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Book Clubs, Karl Marlantes, Books, Military Families, Afghanistan War, Books News

This week the HuffPost Book Club is in Seattle with author Karl Marlantes. If you're in the area, join us at 7pm on Wednesday, April 18th at The Ellio...

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Oh, The Places We'll Go: Authors and Book Clubs

Will Weaver | Posted 04.01.2012

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For authors, book club events are complicated and many-layered. The novel might have been a personal agony to write. It might have caused hurt to family or loved ones. But readers don't need to hear all that.

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What Is It Like To Go To War?

Annemarie Dooling | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Book News, Karl Marlantes, Vietnam War, Book Clubs, What It Is Like to Go to War, Books News

Last week we announced our latest book club pick, Karl Marlantes' spiritual and psychological battle novel, "What It Is Like To Go To War," and since ...

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'The World of Normal Boys' Author K. M. Soehnlein Brings His Timeless Coming-Out Story to Magnet Book Club

Oscar Raymundo | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: LGBT Youth, Books, Coming Out Stories, Coming Out, Book Clubs, Gay, Gay Youth, The World of Normal Boys, Gay Novels, K.M. Soehnlein, San Francisco Around Town, San Francisco News

Gay coming-out novels are a dime a dozen. But The World of Normal Boys is something else. It's a detailed exploration into the consciousness of a 13-year-old boy as he struggles to figure out who he is meant to be.

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Join The HuffPost SF Book Club!

Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Huffpost Book Club, Huffpost Book Club San Francisco, Book Clubs, San Francisco Book Club, San Francisco News

Sometimes, scrolling through endless headlines and pixellated news bytes is no substitution for curling up on the couch with a good, old-fashioned novel. Which is why we here at HuffPost SF want to give you an excuse to avert your eyes from the big glowing computer screen and get lost in a story.

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Why Do Writers Need Readers? Not for the Reason You Might Think

Holly Robinson | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Book Clubs, Bookstores, Book Reviews, Book Bloggers, Breast Cancer Books, Writers Readers, Books News

For most writers, every book takes months, even years, to write. We don't know how, or even if, that book will ever be published in the end, but something compels us to keep going. That "something" is the reader.

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Death in The Tiger's Wife

Danielle Wiener-Bronner | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Tea Obreht, Tiger's Wife, Book Clubs, Huffington Post Book Club, Huffpost Book Club, Book Club, The Tiger's Wife, Books News

For me, The Tiger's Wife is about the stories we tell ourselves to help us understand death, especially when it is pointless, and especially when it is far away.

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The Power of the Unknown

Daisy VanDenburgh | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Huffpost Book Club, Huffington Post Book Club, Tea Obreht, Book Clubs, Book Club, The Tiger's Wife, Tiger's Wife, Books News

One thing that has really stuck out at me while reading The Tiger's Wife is the power of the unknown and its effect on people. In Chapter 2, Natalia becomes frustrated when she fails to persuade one of the diggers, Duré, to allow her to treat his children for illness.

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'The Tiger's Wife': Cancer, War and Booze

Anna King | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Huffpost Book Club, Huffington Post Book Club, Book Clubs, Tea Obreht, Book Club, Tiger's Wife, The Tiger's Wife, Books News

In a novel set in an unnamed, war-ravaged Balkan country where the souls of the dead linger on earth for 40 days to "rummage through drawers and peer inside cupboards," there's going to be much that's strange, exotic and foreign.

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Announcing The HuffPost Book Club

Andrew Losowsky | Posted 02.11.2012

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The Huffington Post is launching a book club. This is why.

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What's So Great About a Virgin (Novelist), Anyway?

Melanie Benjamin | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Book Reviews, Book Clubs, Best of 2011, Best Books 2011, Follow Up Novels, Review Bias Authors, First Novels Authors, Authors Debut Novels, Second Novels, Debut Novels, Books News

Despite the occasional flop of a follow-up to a mega-selling debut novel, usually an author's second novel is better. But because of the review bias toward the "debut" novel, you might not know this.

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Book Covers, Backsides and Body Parts

Holly Robinson | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Writers, Design, Book Clubs, Popular Fiction, Book Designs, Novels, Choosing a Book Cover, Women's Fiction, Books News

In the book world, you can easily spot novels designed to attract women by the body parts and backsides on their covers. Don't believe me? Go to Amazon and you'll see what I mean.

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Jennifer Egan On GoodReads: Can An Online Forum Really Be A Book Club?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jo Piazza | Posted 10.09.2011

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Online book club seems like an oxymoron. Book clubs after all are supposed to represent a kind of social gathering where like-minded people sit down t...

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Why Do Americans Love Book Clubs So Much?

Slate Magazine | Nathan Heller | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Book Clubs America, Book Clubs, Books, Books News

A casual observer of the book-club scene could be fooled into thinking that this summer was a hard one for the nation's leisure readers. Late in sprin...

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Summer Book Club for Kids

Jenny Rosenstrach | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Book Clubs, Kids Books, Children's Books, Bribery, Parenting, FAO Schwarz, Libraries, Boredom, Books News

As soon as I drew up summer reading lists with point systems and rewards, my 7-year-old was curled up with the dog on the couch reading Amulet (10 points) and her sister was asking why the library has to be closed on the Fourth of July.

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Goodreads Partners With First Book To Fight Illiteracy

GalleyCat | Maryann Yin on July 8, 2011 10:23 AM | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Jennifer Egan, Book Clubs, Illiteracy, Goodreads Book Club, A Visit From the Goon Squad, First Book, Books News

Goodreads has partnered with First Book, a charity group whose mission is to make sure children who reside in low-income communities are able to have ...

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Checking Out

Laura Dave | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Summer Reading, Travel Tips, Novel Writing, Beach Reading, Novelists, Food, Travel, Book Clubs, Novel, Travel News

One of my favorite quotes about traveling is by Susan Sontag. Sontag said, "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

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Cheese Plate Tips From The Splendid Table

The Splendid Table | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Cheese, Book Clubs, Dinner Parties, The Splendid Table, Appetizers, Food News

The Splendid Table's® How to Eat Supper, By Lynne Rossetto Kasper Dear Lynne, I want to do a big cheese platter the next time I host book club. A...

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Top 20 Facebook Apps For Book Lovers

GalleyCat | Jason Boog on April 24, 2011 6:23 PM | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Visual Bookshelf, Weread, Book Facebook Apps, Book Apps, Facebook Apps, Excellent Books, Book Clubs, Facebook, Tumble Books, Yournextread, Books News

Not all Facebook apps are dedicated to Farmville-style social games. Goodreads has the most popular book related app on Facebook, counting more than 1...

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Delicious Reading

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baking, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Book Clubs, Diet, Healthy Cooking, Reading, Cooking, Gastronomy, Books News

Members of the Alabama Foodie Book Club bring a dish inspired by the book to share. What could be better than critiquing a book while sampling tasty food?

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Read Across America: 11 Obscure Titles For Adventurous Book Clubs

Peter Steinberg | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Flashlight Worthy Books, Book List, Books, Slidepollajax, Book Clubs, Read Across America, Flashlight Worthy, Books News

Looking for your book club's next read? Don't waste your time with the hottest new titles -- half your club has already read 'em.

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