The #1 book in the country is ‘Magnolia Table, Vol. 2’ by Joanna Gaines, who held a shelter-in-place “book signing” on launch day. Plus Oprah Book Club pick ‘Hidden Valley Road’ by Robert Kolker lands at #5 in hardcover fiction, and Marie Kondo helps readers find the ‘Joy of Work’—at home. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
As quarantine continues, we’re all noticing that we respond to lockdown differently. While many spend each day providing care, food and other necessities, those of us privileged enough to be 'stuck at home' are seeing our friends’ and family members’ behaviour change under the new... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-04-17 15:42:05 UTC ]
A book club for people who don't like book clubs, founded in 2012 in San Francisco and now boasting six chapters in L.A. County, has moved online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-10 14:00:07 UTC ]
In a virtual meet-up, "Almost Home" author Fanny Singer and mother and famed chef Alice Waters join book club readers April 21 for a kitchen conversation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-07 20:33:16 UTC ]
On today’s CBS This Morning, Oprah Winfrey announced her April book club selection: Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family. Kolker book is a work of narrative nonfiction—with elements of biography, reportage, and scientific investigation—about the life of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-07 14:36:54 UTC ]
Kate Elizabeth Russell’s publication experience has been the best of times and the worst of times. Here’s why. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-02 09:00:01 UTC ]
Author James Patterson is spearheading a group that includes Reese Witherspoon, Reese’s Book Club, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, and the American Booksellers Association in an effort to raise millions of dollars to help save independent bookstores. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Pages & Co author Anna James has created an online and interactive middle-grade book club called The Bookwanderers Club, supported by her publisher HarperCollins Children's Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-26 10:05:59 UTC ]
As part of a new virtual book club, publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove will be in conversation with a Dialogue author about their book on Instagram live every Thursday at 8 p.m. for the next 10 weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-23 22:24:25 UTC ]
An awesome daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-19 10:30:45 UTC ]
The widespread school closings caused by the new coronavirus will mean disruptions to Scholastic's book fair, book club, and educational businesses in the quarter ended May 31, company chairman Dick Robinson reported. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
If you’re feeling alone and listless, or even if you simply have a few extra hours a week all of a sudden, I’ve got some good news for you. Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, March 18, brilliant novelist Yiyun Li will be leading a virtual book club in reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace—a book that many... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-17 15:11:40 UTC ]
Carrie Underwood has the #1 book in the country with ‘Find Your Path,’ a diet and exercise plan. Plus ‘House of Earth and Blood,’ YA fantasy author Sarah J. Maas’s adult debut, is #2 in the country, and Reese Witherspoon and Jenna Bush Hager make their book club picks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Read Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid and want to share with your book club? Use these Such A Fun Age book club questions to get the conversation going. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-13 10:41:42 UTC ]
The best book podcasts sound like lively book club conversations, the kinds you've had with friends in your own book club. Start with these. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-13 10:39:40 UTC ]
Imagine being a fly on the wall for gatherings where friends who’ve known each other for years share intimate details about love, loss, and the longings of their lives. Imagine being invited into the homes of complete strangers to share a meal and discuss politics, religion, and other matters of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-12 08:48:44 UTC ]
Oprah Winfrey first launched Oprah's Book Club on Sept. 16, 1996, 10 years into "The Oprah Winfrey Show," one of the highest-rated daytime talk shows in television history. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-10 14:00:38 UTC ]
After holding a forum to discuss one contentious novel, Winfrey said she did not want to wade into literary controversy again. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-03-06 21:49:29 UTC ]
Oprah Winfrey's lively but emotional book club discussion of 'American Dirt' features Winfrey and Macmillan president Don Weisberg both promising to do better to amplify Latinx voices. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
The debate around Jeanine Cummins’ controversial novel American Dirt will continue on March 6th when a new episode of Oprah’s Book Club airs at midnight (ET) on Apple TV+. The two-part episode centers on the Oprah Book Club selection that stirred one of the most vociferous discussions about race... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-05 17:53:35 UTC ]