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RIFers! Check out this review of CALLING INVISIBLE WOMEN from RIFer Karen O.

"Calling Invisible Women was an absolute delight!" says Karen O. "An interesting fact to note: the author is the mother of novelist Anne Patchett, one of my favorites, whose latest novel also dealt with issues regarding the greed and politics of a big pharmaceutical company."

This makes us think of other family connections between writers. Do you have any favorites? Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss come to mind!

RIFers! Keep chatting about Lisa Unger and her books - she'll drop by over the next week or so as HEARTBROKEN hits the shelves to answer your questions and read your comments.

RIFers! Lisa Unger's newest thriller HEARTBROKEN comes out in just few weeks! Available from Crown wherever books are sold June 26, 2012.

Were you a lucky winner of our Read It First giveaway of HEARTBROKEN? Have you read Lisa Unger's other thrillers and mysteries?

Lisa sure does have a lot of fans out there. Are you one of them? What makes her thrillers so good?

I'll get the conversation started and say that from the moment I read BEAUTIFUL LIES, I recognized Lisa's gift for portraying strong, complicated, interesting women in crazy situations who nonetheless seemed really familiar....

RIFers on Goodreads! Listen to this review of
Evel Knievel Days: A Novel by Pauls Toutonghi and leave a comment!

NPR reviews Evel Knievel Days by Pauls Toutonghi

Great discussion, Cheryl and Beth! Thanks for participating.

RIFer winners of our APRON ANXIETY Read It First giveaway, we want to hear from you!

What did you think of this memoir (with recipes)?

We were amazed at how many of you had a personal connection to Kristen Iversen's FULL BODY BURDEN. Check out RIFer comments here.

FULL BODY BURDEN is unlike anything we've read before: part-memoir, part-investigative journalism, and 100% riveting read.

Download a Q&A with Kristen Iversen on Scribd and share a comment!

Hundreds of you responded to our RIF poll "Truth, Fiction and War" - we were interested to learn that many of you believe that fiction can tell the truth of war better than history.

As always, if you've read THE WATCH, we want to hear from you!

If you haven't read, we want to know if you're interested in reading the first major novel of the Afghanistan War.

Thanks for your feedback, Beth! Our hope is that by posting several weeks after the giveaway has run, people who won copies will gather on GR in a sort of virtual book group to discuss the read.

But we will take your suggestion and think about how we can use our GR group to broadcast the giveaways before they expire, too.

Thank you!
Kira
editor, RIF

RIFers! Read this excerpt of Stephanie Reents's THE KISSING LIST and let us know if you agree with reviewers who are comparing her to Aimee Bender and Lorrie Moore. A good comparison, you think?

Also, do you like to read short story collections? Does it matter if they're stand-alone stories or closely linked like those in THE KISSING LIST?

Check out the RIF post - and RIFer comments - on Read It First giveaway of Stephanie Reents' THE KISSING LIST.

RIFers who won a copy of I AM FORBIDDEN in our recent Read It First giveaway: what's your reading experience? We want to know.

Many of you have posted thoughts on Read It Forward Facebook - we hope you'll join the conversation here too.

Was the Satmar familiar to you, or did you learn new things about this pious enclave? What did you think about the way Markovits resolves the long-hidden family secrets that are finally brought to the surface?

RIFer winners of our Facebook giveaway for THE FOURTH FISHERMAN by Joe Kissack: we want to hear from you!

This was a different kind of book for RIF - all the books we feature are nearly all fiction and memoir/biography, and this is more Christian self-help.

If you read the book, what did you think?

If you didn't, read this essay by author Joe Kissack and let us know if you'd like to see more books like this on RIF.

RIFer winners of our Read It Forward Facebook giveaway of Thomas Peele's KILLING THE MESSENGER - what did you think of the read?

Do you agree with the San Francisco Bay Guardian reviewer who called it “Gripping and insightful…A page-turner, in the tradition of great true-crime novels such as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood"?

Lots of you RIFers have been posting to FB to say you received your copy of Sam Leith's THE COINCIDENCE ENGINE. What do you think of the read?

Critics have compared Sam Leith to Thomas Pynchon, Carl Hiassen, and Alfred Hitchcock. What do you think of those comparisons?

RIFers! Many of you commented on our Read It First post for THE SACRED THREAD by Adrienne Arieff and shared your own stories of coming to motherhood in unique ways.

If you've read THE SACRED THREAD, we'd love to hear your thoughts.

If you haven't, check out our post and leave a comment!

http://read-it-forward.crownpublishin...

RIFers! We hosted Read It First giveaways on both our site and Facebook for Kieran Shields's THE TRUTH OF ALL THINGS - hundreds of RIFers received copies. We want to know what you think! Leave a comment or a question below.

Read It First post:
http://read-it-forward.crownpublishin...

RIFers! Do you love thrillers like Stephen Gallagher's THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE? We want to hear from you!

We gave away copies on Read It Forward Facebook - check out our FB app for more giveaways:

http://apps.facebook.com/readitforwar...

Even if you haven't yet read THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE, we'd love to know what you think of Stephen's entertaining essay on the art of the author photo:

http://read-it-forward.crownpublishin...

Calling all RIFer fans of SISTER by Rosamund Lupton!

We're so excited for Rosamund's new book, AFTERWARDS - already a bestseller in the U.K. We'll post an excerpt as soon as it's available.

Until then, we're curious what you all thought of SISTER!

SISTER excerpt: http://www.scribd.com/doc/53269459/Si...

RIF post on AFTERWARDS: http://read-it-forward.crownpublishin...

So many good theories - all make sense to me! Watching the class structures adapt is fascinating....thanks, everyone!

Xe, I know that feeling so well! When you're just dying to talk with someone about a book that's really moved you. So glad you enjoyed THE BIRD SISTERS. I felt the same way when I finished - didn't want to leave Milly & Twiss! They haunted me....