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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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Reading Group Choices Interview with Michael Perry

July 01, 2018 Author Interviews, Bookmark
One of our recommended books on Reading Group Choices is Danger Man Working by Michael Perry

Memoirist, humorist, singer-songwriter: Michael Perry’s latest book, Danger, Man Working, draws on 15 years of writing.

Michael Perry recently visited Reading Group Choices in Madison, Wisconsin, to read and discuss his work with an audience. Michael also kindly took the time to answer our questions after he shared part of his memoir!

Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?​
Michael Perry: When I was in third grade our family received a box of secondhand clothes. When we opened it a worn copy of All Quiet on the Western Front tumbled out.

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The June Spotlight Groups Are…

May 28, 2018 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

June 2018 Spotlights:
Fresh Fiction and Page Turners

Our June Spotlight Groups both meet at Hillside Library in New Hyde Park, New York!

Fresh Fiction Book Group is the Reading Group Choices June 2018 Spotlight GroupFresh Fiction readers discuss recently published novels every month.  The name of the group also refers to new perspectives of seasoned authors, such as Amanda Quick’s recent foray into historical fiction, as well as unique emerging voices, like Rhiannon Navin’s Only Child.  They discuss everything from twisty psychological thrillers to adventure stories, plus more mysterious mystical tales, mysteries, and historical fiction.  Readers ask and answer questions,

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Crimes of the “Art”

May 28, 2018 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Lost manuscripts, stolen paintings, forged masterpieces. Crimes of the “art” are a perennial favorite, and we love to take part in them as readers.

Perhaps a love of books makes us fascinated by mysteries and crimes that involve books themselves. Perhaps we all dream of finding the never-before-seen novel, or discovering that our thrift-store canvas is actually worth millions…

Reading Group Choices has assembled a list of reads that focus on literary and artistic crimes. Stories of black markets and priceless treasures, great fakes and people who may not be who they seem. They raise good questions about what’s real and what isn’t,

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