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Here's what caught our eye in the book world this week, in no particular order: A little book by a science fiction writer came out this week, something called A Dance with Dragons. I think the author's name is George R. R. Martin or something. According to the New York Times it gave brick-and-mortar bookstores … Continue reading As the Book World Turns
Post by BookPerson Joel N. I am an unabashed nerd for life. A lifer. Some of my earliest memories include watching Star Wars and Tron with my dad. By high school I was mainlining 800 page space operas while waiting outside, overnight for tickets to one of life’s biggest disappointments, Star Wars Episode 1 – … Continue reading I Like Sci-Fi Books and I Cannot Lie: A Sci-Fi Reading List
MysteryPeople Pick of the Month: The End of Everything by Megan Abbot Review and Q&A by MysteryPeople Coordinator Scott Montgomery ~ Megan Abbott is a master in that most difficult to define genre, noir. She uses the genre's trademark of people who are ruled by their passions to create characters who are both … Continue reading MysteryPeople Q&A with Noir Queen Megan Abbott
This is the latest in a series of reviews of experimental fiction written by BookPeople Brian C. and Jenn S. Brian and Jenn have made it their mission this summer to open up their reading lives to the weird, the odd, the curious, the avant garde, and the totally out-there in the world of fiction. … Continue reading Experimental Summer: The Unstoppable César Aira
Tonight MysteryPeople is hosting an event with two proud-to-be-independent Texas mystery authors, Reavis Z. Wortham and W. Allen Dark. It is HARD work not only to publish your own book, but to get bookstores to stock it and readers to pay attention to it without the big bucks of the big New York City publishing … Continue reading Indies Love Indies
HARDCOVER FICTION The Last Werewolf by Glen David Duncan - Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Here is a powerful, … Continue reading New Releases
_______________________________________ Nick - The Thousand Summers of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell "I'm only a little over a hundred pages in, but I'm already enjoying it. From what I understand, it only gets better the further you go. Right now, the stories of Japan at that time and of the Dutch East India Trading … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
We're looking for a contortionist to participate in an event here this fall. Interested parties please send an email detailing your experience to online@bookpeople.com. The event is circus-themed. If you have any other circus talents, please also feel free to email online@bookpeople.com and let us know what you can do. We are interested in showcasing … Continue reading Calling All Contortionists
Tonight at 7p we welcome back bestselling Austin mystery author David Lindsey, now writing as Paul Harper, to speak about and sign the first book in his new series featuring a San Francisco detective, Pacific Heights. Millions of copies of Lindsey's bestselling thrillers have been printed and we're very excited to help him launch this … Continue reading Paul Harper/David Lindsey/Paul Harper
It's been a few years since we've had the pleasure of welcoming mystery writer David Lindsey, now writing as Paul Harper, to BookPeople. On Monday, July 11 at 7p, the wait is over! Lindsey will be here for an event with MysteryPeople, BookPeople's mystery bookstore-within-a-bookstore. He'll be talking about his new thriller, the first in … Continue reading A Note from Paul Harper (aka David Lindsey in Disguise)
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