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January 7, 2010

Atomic Books loves the memoir

Atomic Books has just announced their book club's 2010 selections, and this year we have a theme: memoirs and personal essays.

I really like this theme. One of my favorite things about books is that they allow you to slip into someone else's life for a while, and therefore experience things you'd never imagine. Included are well-known selections, such as Januaury's book, "Running with Scissors." But there are also a few you might be unfamiliar with, like November's "Little Things," by Jeffrey Brown. There are books about food, survival, drugs and love -- basically just about everything.

The Atomic Book Club meets the last Wednesday of every month, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. For a full list of this year's books, check out the official Atomic Books Reading Club Facebook page. And while you're there, join the group!

Posted by Nancy Knight at 1:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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HI,
I think this is really a great thing to know about the books and i like to read the different books. I think this is really a great thing to improve the knowledge. Anyways keep it up and keep continue with your valuable thoughts.

Posted by: Phrasal verbs vocabulary | January 9, 2010 12:56 PM

We consume memoirs in huge numbers because we need them ... Other lives lived help us shape our own stories.

As Robert Hughes note ''I feel guilty when I'm not writing and when I'm writing I feel guilty I'm not writing well enough.''

Posted by: Jozef Imrich | January 19, 2010 10:00 PM

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Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is the Maryland Editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.

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