Book Club Girl: Archive

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Aug 15th

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100 Best Closing Lines from Books

UK’s The Stylist offers up their picks for the 100 best closing lines from books. One of mine: “He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.” Is yours here?

Aug 10th

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Happy Birthday Lucy - still miss you.

Aug 6th

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Aug 5th

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Jul 30th

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Jul 25th

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Wanna Get Out of Oz? →

Like Gregory Maguire’s FB page and you could read a portion of the newest book in the Wicked series, Out of Oz, before its Nov 1 on sale date.

Jul 25th

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Jul 18th

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Jul 17th

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Jul 17th

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Jul 12th

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Jul 11th

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Jul 11th

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Jul 11th

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Well Hello Mr. Longbottom

victoryjobs: I want to invent an Oscar category for Most Triumphant Emergence From Puberty just so I can give it to Matthew Lewis.

Jul 9th

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The history of ordinary life & remarkable women

scribnerbooks: Why makes a story history? In Dorothy Wickenden’s new book Nothing Daunted, she tells the real-life adventure story of her grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff, who left the safe confines of New York in 1916 to teach school in the wilds of the American West. As Slate says, “What is alternative about this history is its lens, which is trained on a strain of feminine resilience that...

Jul 8th

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Jul 7th

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Jul 7th

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A Rep Reading: Bookselling: Not for the... →

arepreading: After a week of visiting my booksellers and the publication of some timely articles addressing current issues in the industry, I have come away with the distinct notion that bookselling is not for the faint-hearted. By their very nature, booksellers are impassioned, courageous entrepreneurs…

Jul 7th

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