Tonight is the first time the moms in my mother-daughter book club are getting together without our college daughters. We’re going to hear Wally Lamb, the author of I know This Much is True, The Hour I First Believed and She’s Come Undone, speak in downtown Portland. We’re all excited about the event, but a [...]

Looking for an idea to liven up your mother-daughter book club meetings? Here’s a bit of inspiration from Kate Levin, who is in a book club with her teen daughter in New York. Kate says: “We found out that a professional production of Our Town is opening here, so we read the play and got [...]

Last night Madeleine and I went to our mother-daughter book club meeting. It was at Janelle and Emily’s house, which is just several blocks away, so despite the dark and cold, we walked. It took less than 10 minutes, but in that time I got to hear a lot of what’s on Madeleine’s mind these [...]

Last Saturday I was happy to be invited as a guest to the Hillsboro, Oregon, public library mother-daughter book club meeting. Gretchen Olson, author of Call Me Hope, was also there to talk about her book and the Hands & Words Are Not For Hurting Project, which received a portion of the advance for Call [...]

Goosebumps author R. L. Stine says “Who doesn’t like a good ghost story? Creepers is a good one! Thrills and chills? You Bet. But it will also warm your heart.” Here’s my review of Creepers by Joanne Dahme Courtney O’Brien has just moved with her parents into the small New England town of Murmer where [...]

My daughter Madeleine comes home tonight after spending nearly a month in Paris on an exchange program. We’ve been trading messages about the things she’s seeing and what she’s eating…and what she’s reading. She took along several books that are previous favorites of mine, including Creation by Gore Vidal. She told me she’s been trying [...]

Recently I received an email from Caryn, whose mother-daughter book club has been meeting for a few years. Her group of 7 mother/daughter pairs has just started a blog about their experience, and they’ve posted a list of the books they’ve read on it. Caryn’s group is from Portola Hills in California, and their girls [...]

Featured mother-daughter book club Eight moms and daughters from Brookfield, Wisconsin The members of this mother-daughter book club in Brookfield generously took time during their last meeting to answer some questions about their group. Read on to find out how the group started on some of their favorite books. How did your group get started, [...]