As part of my WOW! blog tour, I’ve written a post called Ten Book Club Favorites for Ramblings of a Texas Housewife. All of the books on the list have been favorites of one of my groups over the years, and they’re divided into age groups, starting with books recommended for 9 to 10 years [...]

A Mother-Daughter Book Club.com reader just sent in  a list of suggestions for books moms and daughters may enjoy reading togehter. Here’s a note from Ingrid D.: I have a few suggestions for some mother/daughter reads—all of which I have read either with my daughter or we both read the book on our own. They [...]

My home state of Oregon has recently introduced the Oregon Reader’s Choice Awards, which let young people vote on the books they have read and consider to be award winners. This is the first year ever for the awards, and nominations have just been announced. While only students in Oregon can vote on the nominations, [...]

The Fantasy First book club is a group that meets in a Barnes & Noble store here in Portland, Oregon. While not officially a mother-daughter book club, the group is comprised of several mother-daughter pairs. The girls are in high school. They focus only on fantasy, and here’s what they’ve been reading: 2009 January:  City [...]

I received this review from a mom who recommends this series for mother-daughter book clubs. I’d like to recommend Anne McCaffrey’s young adult series for your 8-12th grade range.  I don’t see anything else I recognize as science fantasy, and this is a classic, with a female main character. The books, in order, are Dragonsong, [...]

Last night my daughter Catherine and I went to our first mother-daughter book club of the year. We had read The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, who was a contemporary of Charles Dickens. The book was challenging—it was nearly 500 pages and written in the style popular in the 1860s when writers were paid by the [...]

The Big Read is a project of the National Endowment for the Arts, and it challenges entire communities  all around the country to read and discuss one book. It’s like a book club expanded to include everyone in a city who wants to participate. In past years, I’ve participated in a similar project here in [...]

Today I’m participating in the She Writes Day of Action. She Writes is a community that gives female authors a place to showcase their work, voice concerns, further their writing skills and more. This Day of Action was conceived as a response to a list that Publisher’s Weekly posted of what it considers to be [...]