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Booklist’s Book Group Buzz wrote a very nice post about how you should have your book group use my book, which you should:

I have found an entire shelf of tween-favorites in this book. After I spent a weekend strolling the bookshelves of my mind (and placing reserves on all these life-shaping books that I neglected to keep), I began to think about talking about these books with other readers.

Skurnick is not only paying tribute to these great, classic novels of teengirldom, but she’s also thoughtfully looking for the messages, ideas, and crafted writing that we missed as kids. These are the subjects I believe will make great discussion topics in a book group.

I am actually not in any book clubs, because book reviewers are horrible bullies and that’s why we work alone. But I am happy to COME to any book club and just eat all the cookies.