With summer coming to an end and kids getting ready for school (I can’t believe some have started already), it’s time for us to step away from light/summer selections. Room is an amazing story, told from a young boys perspective. This book is brilliantly written and has been long listed for the Booker Prize. To [...]
We have some great summer reading planned for the book club starting with Joshilyn Jackson’s new release, Backseat Saints. In August we’ll be reading Elin Hilderbrand’s new book and later this year we are reading one of the most talked about books at BEA 2010. We understand summer is really busy so in addition to [...]
Our May book club pick is Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright and we have several copies to give away to Manic Mommies listeners and book clubbers. The author discussion is scheduled for May 19. Watch for details on how to join the conversation closer to the date. Synopsis: A chance encounter with a [...]
We’re launching February with a laugh. We’ve got several copies of Why is My Mother Getting a Tattoo and Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask by Jancee Dunn to giveaway to Manic Mommies. In her early forties, Jancee Dunn began to wonder why she still felt like a 13-year-old around her family. [...]
Our February Book Club selection is The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens. This hardcover book is coming out in February so you can’t even get a copy at bookstores yet. However, we have several copies to giveaway to Manic Mommies. Once again, the giveaway and book club conversation will be handled by our hostess Mari. [...]
Posted in Book Club on 07. Dec, 2009
The Manic Mommies Book Club selection for January is April & Oliver by Tess Callahan. From Publisher’s Weekly: “In this memorable debut, Callahan offers a uniquely funereal love story that focuses on a stagnant friendship-turned-untenable romance between unlikely life-long friends. To deal with the death of her immediate family, as well as the scars of [...]
Posted in Book Club on 10. Nov, 2009
On December 16, the Manic Mommies Book Club will be discussing Oxygen via Skype conference call with author Carol Cassella. Simon and Shuster has generously provided 12 complimentary copies of this debut novel for Manic Mommies. This giveaway will be managed by our amazing book club hostess Mari Partyka. A Parade Magazine pick, “First-time author [...]
Posted in Book Club, Guest Authors on 28. Oct, 2009
Thanks to author, and Escape guest, Meg Waite Clayton for contributing this post. The story of my writing starts with a ubiquitous Mom Tool: a little brown paper lunch bag, the kind my sons took their sandwiches and Oreo cookies to school in whenever they’d left their plastic Power Rangers lunch boxes behind the day [...]
Posted in Book Club on 11. Sep, 2009
I have been in the same book club for 14 years. We meet about 10 times a year, rotating hosting responsibilities, book selection and facilitation duties among a group of about a dozen ladies. The group is as varied as the books we read: moms with kids (some who work, some who stay home), single [...]
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