I sometimes hear people comment that they would never be in a book club, because reading is something that’s best done alone. I usually respond that I usually read alone too, but them I’m happy to get together in a social setting to talk about what I read. For me, that makes the solitary pursuit [...]

As I know quite a few voracious readers, I’m always interested in finding places that offer gifts for book lovers. So I was particularly happy to find a new website that not only offers gifts, but also donates the profits to libraries around the world. It’s called Gone Reading: Brilliant Products for the Reading Lifestyle. [...]

The other day Zoey’s mom’s sent me an email. A couple of weeks earlier, her daughter had begun emailing me about my second book, SOLVING ZOE:  “Hi I just finished reading probably the best book in the world called Solving Zoe it’s actually kind of funny because my name is Zoey with a Y.” When [...]

Yesterday I reviewed Missing, a memoir by author Cornelia Maude Spelman. In Missing, Spelman talks about her quest to know about her mother. Today, I’m happy to feature an essay from Spelman about discovering our emotional legacies. In particular, she focuses on the mother-daughter relationship. Discovering Your Emotional Legacy I invite you to embark on [...]

You might expect that we do a lot of reading in my house. But not all of it is for our book clubs or required reading for school. We also read the comics every day in the newspaper, and my youngest daughter has a particular fondness for Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis. We’ve also [...]

If your book club is one of the many that may be getting together to exchange gifts over the soon-to-come holidays, you may be looking to find just the right thing to wrap up and bring to your meeting. New products for book lovers have joined some old favorites to make it easier than ever [...]

If your book club meets long enough, you are likely to lose members. My mother-daughter book club recently faced this situation when we lost four of our 10 members in quick succession. Two moved away, and two decided to commit their time to other activities. After seven years of sharing great books and even better [...]

I’ve just learned about a new website that lets book lovers hang their favorite books on their walls…sort of. It’s called Postertex. The brain child of Peter Kao, Postertex includes all the words of your favorite book designed around an image somehow related to the story. For instance, the words from the New Testament of [...]