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Books With a Magic Touch

July 26, 2018 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists
Otherworldly Books

Reading Group Choices presents books with a magic touch

Consider a magic touch…

Whether you’re looking to be transported to a world full of ogres and demons, or prefer just a surreal touch, there’s a book out there ready to dazzle and delight your imaginative affinities.

Reading Group Choices has compiled a list of books that range from dystopian visions of the future to historical romps with witches and everything in between…including a magical bookshop and a love story spanning space and time. Whether you’re looking to escape daily routine for a moment or are interested in exploring new landscapes, these books can take you as far as you’re willing to go.

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Reading Group Choices Interview with Avi

July 24, 2018 Author Interviews, Bookmark
One of our recommended books is The Button War by Avi

Avi talks about war, childhood, and his inspiration for The Button War.

In The Button War, master of historical fiction Avi delivers a fierce account of the boys in a war-torn Polish village who are determined to prove themselves with a simple dare that spins disastrously out of control. Reading Group Choices interviewed him about the book, his methodology for writing, and the culture created in his striking novel.

Reading Group Choices: Why did you pick buttons as the object of the boys’ dare in The Button War?

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The July Spotlight Group Is…

July 02, 2018 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

The Sassy Sisters is our July 2018 spotlight group on Reading Group Choices

July 2018 Spotlight: Sassy Sisters

Our July Spotlight Group hails from Granite Bay, California!

Originally known as the Granite Bay Book Club, Sassy Sisters started meeting around January 2000.  They recently decided to call the group “Sassy Sisters” because they’re mostly LDS “sisters” who attend the same church and love to socialize. They meet once a month in a group member’s home and have evolved from having potlucks to eating at a restaurant beforehand or having dessert at the hostess’s home. They read a variety of books, including LDS literature, historical novels, fiction and non-fiction,

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Book Group City Tour: Milwaukee

July 01, 2018 Book Group City Tour, Bookmark

Looking for a new book group to reinvigorate your love of literature? If you live in Milwaukee, you’re in luck, as the city has much to offer in the way of creative literary programming. Listen to a professor expound on a book’s literary merits, dine on themed meals and desserts, explore the Milwaukee Public Museum’s exhibits through books, or learn about urban engineering and the leading voices in the field from our book group round-up of Brew City.

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Reading Group Choices Interview with Shawn Francis Peters

July 01, 2018 Author Interviews, Bookmark
The Infamours Harry Hayward

Shawn Francis Peters writes a heart-pounding account of the “Minneapolis Monster” in his newest book, The Infamous Harry Hayward.

Shawn Francis Peters recently visited Verona Public Library in Wisconsin to read and discuss his work with an audience. Shawn also kindly took the time to answer our questions after he shared part of his book!

Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?

Shawn Francis Peters: When I was in high school in Baltimore in the 1980s, I read Truman Capote’s classic true-crime book In Cold Blood.

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