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The HCG Summer Book Guide

August 12, 2010

The HCG community has Amanda Ludwikowski (a.k.a. A. Lud) to thank for this post.  After Amanda expressed a genuine plea for more solid book recommendations, we set out to create a list of some of the books we’d suggest you read this summer.  And yes, we know summer is almost over. But some of us [...]

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Little Bee

August 2, 2010

There was a lot of buzzzz surrounding July’s book club pick – Little Bee by Chris Cleave – and the book did not disappoint.  I know several HCG readers are currently reading or intend to read Little Bee, so I’ll be sure not to provide any SPOILERS.  A quick synopsis of the book from Amazon:
All [...]

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Orange is the New Black

July 21, 2010

Book recommendations from certain friends hold varying degrees of weight.  A book recommendation from my friend Katie Maxwell rarely disappoints so when K. Max suggested I check out Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman, I didn’t waste (too much) time doing just that.
HCG highly recommends OITNB.  After [...]

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Supreme Courtship

July 2, 2010

Happy July 2nd!  To celebrate America’s birthday in a few days, we are revealing June’s book club selection: Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking and other hilarious novels.  MR chose this book and hosted our June gathering.
A short rundown of the book from our old faithful site GoodReads:
President of the [...]

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The Fortress of Solitude

June 2, 2010

Just in time for the start of June, behold May’s book club selection!  Laura hosted our May meeting and chose a book that had a lot of potential: The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem.  Lethem’s 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Award, and practically every major publication in America had rave [...]

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The Help

April 28, 2010

It was expected that April’s book club pick would be a hit.  This month’s selection, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, was chosen by book club member Kim and became wildly popular shortly after its publication in early 2009.  The novel spent 50 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, has received endless praise from [...]

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