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~SARAH B Game of Thrones: A Song of Fire & Ice: Book One by George R. R. Martin “I’ve never been into Sci Fi, but my twin sister got me started on the the Game of Thrones television show. I got through about three episodes before I had to stop to read the book. I’m … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, The Bystanders, The Crime That Changed America by Kevin Cook Reviewed by Molly The story of Kitty Genovese's story has already been told. Her murder, in front of many witnesses, has become the classic textbook example of the bystander effect. Slow police response time to her killing led to the establishment … Continue reading BookPeople Review: KITTY GENOVESE, The Crime That Changed America
HARDCOVER FICTION Frog Music by Emma Donoghue From the bestselling author of Room comes a new novel. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Full of songs … Continue reading New Releases – 4/1/2014
~ post by Katie G "Cover to Reel" is a regular column in which I offer my two cents about that age-old debate of whether or not a movie did any kind of justice to the book it’s based on. If you have a teenager, have been around a teenager or know that teenagers exist, … Continue reading Cover to Reel: DIVERGENT
~ SUTTERFIELD The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert "This book is beautifully written and really interesting. I'm at the beginning of the book, so it's mostly about the history behind the science and concepts of paleontology, extinction, etc. It's incredibly fascinating. To paraphrase Jon Stewart and an interview he did with Kolbert, there … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
HARDCOVER FICTION Every Day is For the Thief by Teju Cole For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Ondaatje, this is new fiction from Teju Cole, whose critically acclaimed debut, Open City was the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A young Nigerian living in … Continue reading New Releases – 3/25/2014
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb & an Open Heart by Carol Wall Reviewed by Will Godwin (Father of a former BookPeople bookseller) "It’s been a long winter…. I’m talking about a personal season of illnesses, surgeries, deaths, divisions, and waning spirits in my family circles." … Continue reading Reader Review: MR. OWITA’S GUIDE TO GARDENING
Snap: Beat Poet Enthusiast and co-founder of City Light Books & Publishing Lawrence Ferlinghetti has sold his travel journals to Liveright Publishing. With plans to release in the fall of 2015, the journals show the more political side of Ferlinghetti and his encounters with such poets and movement leaders as Pablo Neruda, Ezra Pound, Ernesto … Continue reading Book World Buzz
~post by Steve(n) If you are even the slightest bit geeky or obsessive about comedy, then you have probably found yourself at some point in your life wondering why exactly it was that maverick comedian Richard Pryor set himself on fire and ran screaming through the California suburbs in 1980. It may surprise you to … Continue reading Stand Up Sit Down Book Club is Burning Down the House
~ post by Joe T. SXSW is a mack truck that has pushed, smashed, and run over the the city of Austin; and, now that its tail lights fade into the sunset, I’m left with the realization that I have left far too much work unfinished in its wake. Like this blog. I can be … Continue reading Time Is a Flat Circle: Intro to Grant Morrison
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