Congrats to Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in literature...
This NYC librarian has put together a list of books about, inspired by or featured on AMC's hit show "Mad Men," and now there's a wait list for most of the titles...
In today's post, regular contributor Denise Neary shares her review of the new movie It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on the book of the same name. Consider reading the book and then doing an outing with your book club to catch the movie.
Let’s hear it for a movie true to the book it is based on!
October 8, 2010
We live in a fairly rural area --- no sidewalks, curbside mailboxes and lots of trees. Deer graze lawns when they are not darting in front of cars, testing our alertness. There is one house at the end of the block where deer congregate on a regular basis; I think they are gossiping about us humans. This time of year animals are known to sneak inside to escape the chill that is building in the air. My husband regularly calls out, “Close the door.” The other morning I came down the back staircase and saw something small frantically darting around the back hallway. The door was ajar, as was the garage door as my husband was doing the morning hunting and gathering of the newspaper. So much for “close the door.”
Earlier this week the Masters in Education website released a list of the Top 50 Book Clubs to Inspire and Learn From and guess who made the list? ReadingGroupGuides.com of course!
We are proud to be a part of such a great list whose other members include:
October 7, 2010
This week, we celebrate the return of New York Comic-Con. It's been a long year and a half (seems like longer, doesn't it?) since the convention was held here. It's now officially moved to the fall to avoid conflicts with some other events, and I'm looking forward to a great weekend jam-packed with panels, old friends, new announcements, and plenty of comics.
As members of reading groups and book clubs we are all clearly geniuses (I think I may have noted that earlier this week as well), but we have figured out that conversation (especially conversation about books) goes very well with food (and often wine -- but de
'Tis the fall, the FALL OF GIANTS by Ken Follett that is as the author returns with a project every bit as epic, ambitious and large (literally and figuratively) as his beloved bestseller THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH. FALL OF GIANTS, the first book in Follett's planned Century trilogy hit shelves this week, but wasn't the universal No. 1 you might assume.
