Grace Book Club: a debut!
Guess what! We're starting a book club. You may know that Oprah was having such a hard time finding substantive, amazing books for hers that she shut it down for a few years. Here at Grace we know that the gorgeous literature is still being written, it's just not quite finding its way to the audience who wants it.
We will recommend three books a month by amazing women writers, and in our own little way help fend off the literary apocalypse, book by book by book.
The Scoop on our brand new GRACE BOOK CLUB:
Throughout 2005, I found that one lifelong-reader friend after another told me about giving up on purchasing contemporary fiction because of the sheer volume of crap at the bookstore. It was too hard to find books to their taste in the mess of celebrity "novels," etc.
How sad is this? There are obviously still so many amazing writers getting their work out, and to me this is an especially remarkable achievement for women literary writers, since the deck is seriously stacked against us. I created the Grace Reading Series to support women writers, but I also want to find ways to bring hand-picked, guaranteed-not-to-suck books to overwhelmed readers.
So a book club is born!
This month, we bring you four titles because we're catching up with some of the great books of last fall. To purchase a copy of any or all, you can click through to amazon from the review pages and help support the Grace Reading Series and women writers!
Happy January,
Elizabeth