While most of the reading we do in our family is the turning the page kind, we occasionally like to listen to stories as well. Sometimes we listen in our car while driving to a destination far away. Sometimes we gather in our family room. It’s fun to laugh together at funny lines and discuss [...]

Today is Drop Everything and Read (D.E.A.R.) day, a wonderful time dedicated to the joy of reading. When my daughters were young, they had D.E.A.R. time every day in elementary school. In middle school this time was known as SSR or Silent Sustained Reading. Not nearly as fun as D.E.A.R. right? D.E.A.R. makes me think [...]

Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations has another great list out for book clubs. It’s called Book Club Recommendations That Feature Women of Another Era. My contribution to the list is A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. When we read it in my mother-daughter book club, most of the moms and daughters liked it, which is something [...]

Book Loons.com boasts over 12,000 book reviews. Wow! There’s also a special section on the website with links to book giveaways going on at lots of different websites. I posted my latest giveaway of Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb there (don’t forget to comment for a chance to win). Managing [...]

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) is promoting this week as Teen Tech Week. The emphasis is on ways teens can meld technology with reading and literacy. There’s a list of activities at the YALSA website, including book lists for both fiction and nonfiction books.
Sourcebooks is also hosting a whole list of activities for [...]

The Cybils 2009 winners are finally here, and looking over the list I’m surprised to find that I haven’t read even one of the books.  Cybils stands for Children and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards. the number of books some of these bloggers read is truly amazing. These people know their books. You’ll find awards [...]

I’ve recently discovered BookBundlz.com, a website with a wealth of information for book club members. I’ll be posting articles on a regular basis, and the first one you’ll find is this one on working moms and mother-daughter book clubs. While you’re there, you can check out BookBundlz’ other features as well. While many of the [...]

Peter at Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations has been busy posting lists in the last few days. Just a few days ago he posted The Best Books About Love…That Your Book Club Probably Hasn’t Read (I contributed to that one). Now comes a list for young readers and interesting choices for mother-daughter book clubs called The [...]

I’ve just contributed to a new list for Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations called 9 of the Best Books About Love…That Your Book Club Probably Hasn’t Read. Check out my contribution, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, and those of other book bloggers.

The Art of Manliness recently posted a list of 50 Best Books for Boys and Young Men that you may want to check out if you’re looking for good books for boys. The website in general is intriguing, and you may find yourself spending a few minutes looking around at other things it has to [...]