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Reading Group Choices Interview with Lorna Landvik

February 04, 2018 Author Interviews, Bookmark
Once in a Blue Moon Lodge by Lorna Landvik

Lorna Landvik’s latest novel, Once in a Blue Moon Lodge, is a sequel to her debut, Patty Jane’s House of Curl.

Lorna Landvik recently visited Reading Group Choices to read and discuss her work with an audience. Lorna also took the time to answer our questions and shared life-changing books, Norwegian curse words, her favorite bookstore, and what she finds most fascinating in the world of science. 

Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?​
Lorna Landvik: It would have to be Dick and Jane,

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RGC Authors Featured on TTBOOK

February 01, 2018 Author Interviews, Bookmark

To The Best of Our Knowledge (TTBOOK), a Wisconsin Public Radio show, has featured a host of RGC Authors who’ve come to town to read at our home base, 702WI.

Go deeper in the world of each book and the creative process of each author by reading articles about the authors and listening as host Anne Strainchamps conducts insightful interviews.

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Megan Stielstra Interview with Reading Group Choices

December 03, 2017 Author Interviews, Bookmark
One of our recommended books is The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Stielstra

Megan Stielstra makes us want to hang out with her even more by answering our questions about fear, parenting, and The Wrong Way to Save Your Life.

We absolutely loved talking to Megan Stielstra about her new collection of essays. We asked her about fear, family relationships, and her reaction to the presidential election and current climate.

Reading Group Choices: We noticed there were more essays that involved information about your dad, and about your relationship with your dad. Is that because you connect fear to him more to you than to your mom (due to his health and his experience with the school shooting)?

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(Non-Book) Gifts for Book Lovers

December 03, 2017 Advice, Bookmark

Fill Your Gift List With Book-Loving Cheer

Sometimes it’s hard to find the perfect gift for readers. They can be particular. They can be finicky about the books they read, the authors they avoid, the editions they like best, whether they prefer hardcovers or paperbacks. And then there’s the most high-risk gamble of all: who knows what they already own or have read?

But not to worry. Reading Group Choices has made it easier to shop for the book lovers in your life this holiday season. We’ve compiled non-book gift suggestions below, from the edible to the wearable,

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A Quiet Moment: Books That Inspire Introspection

December 03, 2017 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Titles To Provoke Your Mind and Heart

While some books deliver us to worlds far from our own and delight us by completely removing us from our own lives, there are still others that invite readers to turn inward and become more present to the current moment. How can we be more observant of improbable moments of grace? What does it mean to believe in something so much you would die for it? How can we be more empathetic? These questions and more are examined by this following list of books with subjects that span aging,

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An American (Book Group) In Paris

November 30, 2017 Bookmark, News, Spotlight Book Groups, Themed Book Lists
The American Library in Paris

Reading In The Shadow of the Eiffel Tower

Paris, 2017: Two blocks from the Eiffel Tower you’ll find the rue du Général Camou, and there, at number 10, the American Library in Paris. The library has existed for nearly 100 years. It was established in the days of the First World War, when it served as a resource for Americans stationed abroad.

Today it opens its doors to anyone who wishes to join, and features the largest English-language circulating collection on the European continent.

Among the benefits of membership to the library is its book clubs.

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