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The June Spotlight Group Is…

June 01, 2020 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups
The Reading Group Choices June 2020 Spotlight

June 2020 Spotlight: Bufò Bookstore in Italy

Our June Spotlight is a book group coordinator in Turin, Italy!

Hello! My name is Sara and I’m a book group coordinator in an Italian bookshop. I read Italian novels, stories from the 20th century and contemporary fiction with my book groups. We are around 15 people in each group and usually we meet together once a month. The bookshop is our home, but during this particular moment we obviously use video calls to talk about books. You can find more info about our work by visiting the bookshop website www.libreriabufo.it or on my literary blog www.blufiordaliso.it.

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Our 2019 Favorite Book Survey Winners Are…

May 29, 2020 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

Thank you to all of the great readers who filled out our 2019 Favorite Books survey!

Every year, Reading Group Choices surveys book groups and readers to compile our annual list of Favorite Books. And every year we randomly choose winners who receive a gift certificate to their local bookstore and a package of RGC-recommended books for their entire group!

Meet our 2019 favorite books survey winners below (and sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss the chance to take our 2020 survey!).

The Festival Fans book group is a winner of our favorite books survey.The Festival Fans
Green Valley,

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Reading Group Choices Interview with Timothée de Fombelle

May 19, 2020 Author Interviews, Book a Day, Bookmark
Vango by Timothee de Fombelle

Author Timothée de Fombelle discusses Vango, his adventure novel in two volumes, translated from the French (and acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic).

For his interview with Reading Group Choices, Timothée de Fombelle talks about what defines YA literature, what he learned from writing for the theater, how all minor characters are major, and the search for home…

Reading Group Choices: Vango revels in the play of time. Multiple events happen in different locations around the world — Scotland, Sotchi, Salina, and others —

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Book a Day: May Reading List & Author Chats

May 08, 2020 Book a Day, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists
Reading Group Choices Book a Day Reading List and Author Chats

The Book a Day program continues with these May picks for your reading enjoyment and morale!

We’re posting a new or classic book recommendation each day to boost your book intake, with absorbing reads to occupy and entertain. Some of our Book a Day selections also feature Facebook Live events with authors.

Even though your book groups might not be meeting right now, we are lucky to still have ways to communicate. Share the news and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a dose…

Browse all Book a Day titles by month here.

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Reading Group Choices Interview with Natalie Jenner

May 02, 2020 Author Interviews, Book a Day, Bookmark
Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

Author Natalie Jenner talks about her debut novel The Jane Austen Society, about an unlikely group of Austen readers who unite to save her historic home.

For her interview with Reading Group Choices, Natalie Jenner talks about literary pilgrimages, visiting Jane Austen’s residence, fascinating facts about the author you may not know, and which Austen novel is her current favorite…

Reading Group Choices: Adeline comments to Dr. Gray, as they notice tourists in front of the Austen cottage: “That someone could spin such stories from this: this walk,

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The May Spotlight Group Is…

May 01, 2020 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups
May 2020 Spotlight Group

May 2020 Spotlight: Reading Between the Wines

Our May Spotlight Group members leave books for one other on their doorsteps!

This is our small but wonderful book club called Reading Between The Wines that just started meeting in January of this year. We all belong to St Paul’s United Methodist Church in Carolina Beach, NC and met there several years ago. Since we all liked each other, I thought a book club would be a great great way to get to know each other better, since so many of us are retired educators.

Our first book discussion in February was for Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.

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