BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!

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Here’s what hip, hot and happening in the world of books this week…

What the Lakers’ are reading?
Where kids live can affect reading skills
What everyone’s reading right now…
What we’ll be reading soon?
Sean Penn in Water for Elephants?
Cool uses for books (other than reading)
Books about food – fiction and nonfiction
NBCC finalists announced

Welcome back!

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Open Call for Lists of Book Club Recommendations!
 
The creator of Flashlight Worthy Books wants to know what YOU love to read…  Here is a quick email he sent me last week:
 

Hello and happy new year from Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations – where you can find books so good, they’ll keep you up past your bedtime. [...]

So, it’s been awhile since I’ve participated with Booking Through Thursday, but just loved this week’s topic:
Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody [...]

Recently I was contacted by Flashlight Worthy Book Lists
along with 13 other bloggers, and asked to choose one book that I thought was the best book club selection of 2009.  Check out the list — I think you’ll find the whole site helpful, too!  I’ve already added to my TBR list… 
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Recently my husband passed along an interesting article he found in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel  about  University of Wisconsin students using Kindles as textbooks.  Here are a few excerpts:
Instead of lugging around hundreds of dollars in books in strained backpacks, 20 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have little more than a pound to [...]