Book Club

Book Tour: Found, a Memoir by Jennifer Lauck

October 13, 2011

November is National Adoption Awareness Month and is just a few weeks away. To mark it, I invite you to join me in reading a memoir written by an adult adoptee from the closed era. I selected the book Found because: knowing and understanding adoptee perspectives helps me to know and understand parts of my [...]

Author Melissa Ford on Life from Scratch

March 5, 2011

Earlier this week, readers of the book Life from Scratch asked each other questions and shared their thoughts on their blogs, much like people used to do over munchies and punch back in the old days when book clubs were limited to interacting with people who lived near each other. Twenty bloggers participated in this [...]

My stop on the Life from Scratch book tour

March 3, 2011

Once upon a time I was a voracious book reader. I was a bookworm before bookworms were cool (What? They’ve never been cool? Not on my planet.). I once thought I would be able to read every book in the library — that being my elementary school’s wee library. But the libraries I frequented got [...]

Readers’ last words on the Life from Scratch book tour

March 3, 2011

Welcome to the third and final segment of the Life From Scratch book tour. It’s the tour that takes place from the comfort of your own sitting area, so get yourself some coffee or tea and pull up a virtual chair. And while it’s nice to have read the selected book, it’s not required. See [...]

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