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By BETH VRABEL
For the Daily Record/Sunday News
Karen Hostetter knows how to pick a great read, and not just because she is in charge of library relations for all of York County libraries. She listens to patrons as they return their orders. If they're still raving about the book when it's due, she knows to take it home.
That's why she's a big fan of a new feature in the annual Summer Reading Club, going on now in county libraries. Patrons can go online to leave reviews of books they've checked out. The anonymous critiques are posted on a link for the Summer Reading Club, organized by age group.
"The adult (membership) is what just blew me away," said Hostetter, who said half her day is spent signing up club readers. More than 1,000 reviews have been submitted so far, Hostetter said. Members can add their reviews while logging their reading time online.

Chick lit with yarn is a good way to describe this book, a novel about Georgia Walker, who owns Walker and Daughter, a knitting store in Manhattan. She is a single mother with a precocious 12-year-old daughter, Dakota, and lots of worries.
Seems to me she had a good thing going. I was wishing she'd just get over herself at times. Same with the other characters, women who work in or visit the shop and come together every Friday to knit and keep each other company.

A review from reader Nancy Duncan:

When I finished "The Reader," I wasn't that impressed with it. Then I went to Book Club.

One of my former college roommates is obsessed with something called Book Crossing.

You might have heard of it. Maybe from the stamp inside a paperback in your dentist's waiting room, the stickers on stacks of free books in a local coffee shop.

Here's how it works:

The Women's National Book Association is celebrating National Reading Group Month in October.

We'd like to celebrate by introducing our readers to your group.

E-mail information about your book group to gfogal@ydr.com. Include a photo of your members formatted as a jpeg. We'd also like to hear about what kind of books your group reads, which you liked and which you didn't.

For details about National Reading Group Month, click here

Oprah Winfrey has chosen David Wroblewski's "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" as her latest book club pick.

Are you in one? I've been in one for 10 years -- pretty remarkable, right? My group is all local -- in fact most of us live in the same neighborhood, so it's very convenient, especially during the winter.