There’s an enormous amount of pressure to say yes when someone asks if she can join your mother-daughter book club. The mom or daughter asking may be part of your social circle. She may be someone you really like and think would be an asset to the group. You may also want to avoid being [...]

When Marci’s mother-daughter book club girls were in fourth grad, their group read Rent a Third Grader by B. B. Hiller. In the book, students raise money to help an old police horse remain part of the community. That story inspired the girls to help their local animal shelter by organizing a bake sale.
In addition [...]

Today I wrote a guest post for Reading Group Guides.com about discussing North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley, which I recommend for girls aged 14 and older. You can also read my previous review and an interview with Headley.

I was excited to see this recent review of Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs over at What Is Bridget Reading? Bridget is a book blogger and a librarian, two of my favorite types of people. Thanks for the great review Bridget!

My blog month-long blog tour finishes off with these three great reviews of my guidebook for mother-daughter book club, Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs.  Click on the links below to read what others are saying:
Helping Moms Connect
Words by Webb
5 Minutes for Books
I’ve had a lot of fun during the [...]

I remember when my first mother-daughter book club read a book that dealt with teen sex. The moms were pretty freaked out, thinking our 13-year-old daughters were too young to read about kids just a few years older than them having sex. But we soon realized our daughters really wanted to know what their moms [...]

Here’s an article I wrote for Reading Group Guides.com with a few ideas on choosing the books for your mother-daughter book club.

Have you ever thought of volunteering with other members of your book club? You can do something as simple as collect books for an organization dedicated to literacy, or you may be inspired by something you read to spend time helping out a specific cause.
Today on Crazed Mind I give tips and ideas on how [...]

You may be interested in reading an article I wrote about how writers can appeal to more than one generation of readers with their books. Mother-daughter book club selections usually have to appeal to both the moms and the daughters. As the number of these clubs grow, writers are more interested in knowing what books [...]

Some of the most fun I’ve had with my mother-daughter book club members is when we connected with the authors of the books we read. Sometimes it was during meetings, other times we attended bookstore signings or library readings. Today at The Urban Muse, I’ve posted a guest essay about why authors may want to [...]