The following are our readers’ selections of their Top 10 Favorite Discussion Books, which were gathered from the submissions in our ReadingGroupGuides.com 10th Anniversary Contest. Which of these titles has your book club read? Please check as many as ap
October 1, 2010, 570 voters
This isn't exactly graphic-novel related, but it's close enough. If you were blown away by Danny Elfman's soundtrack work on Batman way back in 1989, you'll be interested in hearing that Elfman's long collaborative history with Burton is about to get a huge retrospective (with a huge price tag to match). The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box is being released in a limited-edition box set (only 1,000 copies are being made) that will be available in December.
In today's post, regular contributor Bonnie Brzozowski and her apprentice Meredith Watters talk about reading a somewhat different kind of graphic novel for this months Graphic Novels Book Club at the Austin Public Library.
Late September 2010
This week, we moved servers for our websites, which is always an experience that sounds easier than it is. As a result, some things are not working quite right, and there were a few hours that you might not have been able to “find us” during the week. We hope to have all our contest entry forms (including Word of Mouth) and our poll and question pages fixed as quickly as possible. First, we are trying to figure out why they are not performing right! We apologize for the lateness of this newsletter, and we thank you in advance for your patience. In the meantime, we’ve set up a few workarounds for our current Book Club and Grab Bag contests so you can still enter.
In this month’s round-up we’ve got everything from the wisdom of the ages to new fangled gadgets to music to soothe the savage beast!
I love that all of our regular contributors are getting out to the book festivals in and around where they live. Well of course they are. They wouldn't be regular contributors here on the RGG blog if they weren't book lovers. Yesterday we heard from Heather Johnson on the Baltimore Book Festival and today Denise Neary shares some of the "wonder" of the National Book Festival in DC.
Do you usually dress up for Halloween? Have you ever dressed up as a character from a book?
September 28, 2010, 82 voters
In today's guest post, regular contributor Heather Johnson shares some details from the Baltimore Book Festival. Did you get a chance to go? Or will you be hitting any of the other Book Festivals this fall? If not - change your plans. They really are a lot of fun!
September 22nd marked the first of day of the fall season. Which means school is in definite full swing. When you drag yourself sleepily out of the bed and wish for another life that did involve bad school lunches, heavy books, difficult assignments and loud, crowded hallways.
