Avid readers, Martha Burns and Alice Dillion are sisters who have collaborated across the continent on Reading Group Journal: Notes in the Margin (Abbeville Press) and also created National Reading Group Month. Burns lives in a small New Jersey town; Dillion lives near Portland, Oregon.
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