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Hi, Bookies: The poll is now open for April. What’s on the table: hilarious and astute observations from Tina Fey (she’s baaaackkkk) and Sloane Crosley, a fictionalized look at Wall Street, and a uniquely [...]

My name is Terri Schlenger, and I’m very happy to be your guest editor this month. I’m a copy editor for the tablet editions of Real Simple (on the Nook, Kindle Fire, and iPad), [...]

Hi, Bookies: I’m just busting with news today. First up: your March pick. By a margin of almost 100 votes, Stella Gibbons’s delightfully English Cold Comfort Farm cinched the win. Our March discussion leader, [...]

Hello, Bookies! Sadly, we’ve come to the end of our whirlwind adventure through 1930s New York via Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility. But before we park our Bentley in the garage, there’s quite a bit to [...]

Hi, Bookies: If you haven’t voted yet for your March book, don’t forget that the poll closes this Sunday, February 26, at 11:59 p.m. ET. (Let’s just hope the Oscars aren’t wrapping up at [...]

Hi there, Bookies! I’m back to explore the next nine chapters of Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility…let’s hop in our Bentley and take on the town, shall we? When we last left our heroine, Katey [...]

Hello, Bookies! Ready to jump into Rules of Civility and all of the excitement that comes along with it? Here we go… When I began reading the preface, I was surprised, yet delighted, to [...]

Hi, Bookies: Well, we seem to have struck a chord with the February choices, so we’re going to stay in kind of the same neighborhood come March: a neighborhood where the accents are British, [...]

My name is Anastasia Signoretta, and I am so excited to take the journey with you through 1930s New York City via the pages of Amor Towles’ novel, Rules of Civility! Even though I love [...]

Hi, Bookies: So our friends down the hall on the print side of Real Simple would like to ask you this question: Who is your favorite mother in a work of literature? The book cover [...]