Thanks to all of you who shared your book group stories last month! We love hearing about what you read and what makes for great discussion. This month, we’re kicking off a new Read It Forward feature. In every issue, we’ll ask you to respond to a question about book groups, and one lucky winner will win advance reader’s copies for your entire group: you’ll get to read a great new book before it hits the shelves and may be featured in an upcoming issue of Read It Forward.

Learn how a Peace Corps poster boy won author Eve Brown-Waite’s heart and how a third-world adventure changed her life. There’s laughter, there’s tears, there’s adventure and plenty of food for thought. There’s also the possibility of having the author talk to your book club either in person, by phone, or by webcast.

What reviews are saying about First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria :

“A laugh-out-loud debut about humanitarian work . . . . As revealing as it is entertaining.” —Kirkus Reviews

“With an appealing, down-to-earth voice, Brown-Waite chronicles her adventures abroad in an accessible, humorous tone sure to appeal to armchair travelers.”—Booklist

Readers at GoodReads are raving about A Proper Education for Girls:


Judy liked “this Victorian Thelma & Louise pair of sisters!”

Beth calls it an “absolutely magnificent novel!”

Kat gave it five stars and says “the characters are priceless, the setting is hilarious,… and the two main heroines are plucky, resourceful, and thoroughly endearing.”

Marc Morrone offers great advice for keeping your pets happy and healthy in springtime.

Tell us about how you and your pets are welcoming spring! Add your comment below to enter for your chance to win a signed copy of A Man for All Species. Five lucky winners will also receive their choice of one of Marc’s other books: Ask the Bird Keeper, Ask the Dog Keeper, Ask the Cat Keeper, or Ask the Fish Keeper. Winners chosen at random. Quantities limited. No purchase necessary.

David Foster Wallace was one of the greatest writers of his generation, and his recent suicide left the literary world, his family, friends, and fans deeply saddened. His generous spirit is reflected in David Lipsky’s moving portrait, a book he wrote after spending a week on the road with Wallace on his Infinite Jest book tour. It’s a truly unusual portrait—a biography in five days.

What reviews are saying about Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself:

“Prescient, funny, earnest, and honest, this lost conversation is far from an opportunistic piece of literary ephemera, but a candid and fascinating glimpse into a uniquely brilliant and very troubled writer.”— Starred Publishers Weekly

“You all right down there?”

Andrew Stratton looked up toward the cliff top, ten feet above his head, but the afternoon sun was in his eyes and all he could make out was the silhouette of a woman’s head and shoulders, etched against a Wedgwood-blue sky. Stratton was standing on a narrow grassy ledge above the sea, which he shared with a loudly bleating, black-faced sheep. The shape of a dog appeared beside the woman. The shape barked.