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How to Organize Your Books: A Guide

July 12, 2019 Advice, Bookmark
Reading Group Choices offers strategies for organizing books

There are certain perennial questions for a book lover: hardcover or paperback? E-reader or print? Write in the margins or never, ever mark a page?

And then there’s the matter of organizing your book collection, open to eternal debate. Genre, color, no scheme at all? Reading Group Choices understands, and we offer a few ideas to help readers arrange that growing home library!

Give Me Function!

When looking at your shelves or piles of books, first decide your goal: Are you frustrated because you can never find that title you’re looking for?

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Updating the Rom-Com: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

July 11, 2019 Bookmark, Featured Books
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors updates Jane Austen's classic rom-com

Two hundred years separate Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice from the new novel by Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors. Yet the line between these two romantic comedies is clear. And Dev’s book pays homage to the Austen classic while placing its storyline squarely into our current world.

The Original Rom-Com

Pride and Prejudice has been called the original romantic comedy, pitting the witty and headstrong Elizabeth Bennet against (and ultimately with) Fitzwilliam Darcy. The novel established the ground rules for how these romantic stories play out:

Two characters share a dislike of each other,

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The July Spotlight Group Is…

July 02, 2019 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups
The Reading Group Choices Spotlight Book Group in July 2019 is Reading Between the Wines

July 2019 Spotlight: Reading Between the Wines

The members in our July Spotlight Group, six years strong, met as parents and stayed together as friends!

Here is a photo of our book club at an author visit event for the annual All of Rochester Reads selection. We are ten women who initially came together on the sporting fields, concerts and musicals, and parade routes as parents in the Gates Chili School District in Rochester, New York. Our love of reading and curiosity brought us together, and now friendship keeps us searching for new books and adventures to share.

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Our 2018 Favorite Book Survey Winners Are…

June 30, 2019 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

Thank you to all of the great readers who filled out our 2018 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 2018 favorite books survey winners below (and sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss the chance to take our 2019 survey!)…

The RGB Reading Book Group is a winner of our favorite books survey.The RBG (Reading Book Group)
San Diego,

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Take a Chance: Debut Authors (so far) in 2019

June 06, 2019 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists
Debut authors in 2019 for the best book group books for discussion

Along with the authors we know and love, part of our joy at Reading Group Choices is recommending great new writers making their debuts! We’re almost at the halfway point for 2019, and the year has already given us an impressive roster of first-time novels and memoirs.

We’ve identified half a dozen debuts to read with your group, with discussion questions, interviews, excerpts, and other materials below to help create a lively discussion. Take a chance on someone new!

We’ll look forward to what the rest of the year brings…

The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg

Novel,

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How to Weed Books: A Guide

June 05, 2019 Advice, Bookmark
Tips for weeding books

A new apartment, a new member of the family, an ever-alarming fire hazard, or just the desire to take stock of what’s exactly in those piles. As difficult (or unthinkable!) as the idea feels, there are good, important reasons for weeding your books.

It’s often difficult, we know. But whether by choice or necessity, the process doesn’t have to be traumatic. Reading Group Choices shares these strategies for de-cluttering your collection: how to decide what to put aside, and then how to make the break with your books!

Ways to Weed

First,

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