Hello,

Happy New Year! I hope you're enjoying the variety of the stories in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. One of our 2007 resolutions is to make the Avid Book Club even better, and we hope you'll share your feedback with us.

Take our Avid Reader Book Club Survey
Tell us more about yourself and which of the picks from 2006 you liked best, and then submit your suggestions for the next read. Everyone who completes the survey will be entered to win a one-year membership for LibraryThing.com, where you can catalog your books and find suggestions for your 2007 reading list. [Take the survey now.]

Children Playing - Discuss and Win
My favorite story in Sedaris' collection was Jincy Willett's "The Best of Betty." Share your favorites with us and enter our contest to win a copy of Booker Prize-winning The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. [Join the discussion and enter to win.]

Best wishes for a wonderful 2007!

Happy reading,

Jennifer
Book Club Host

P.S. Right now I'm also reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.