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The arrival of Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke has prompted us to dig deep into our staff photo archives. Karaoke is something of a tradition around here. It isn't a BookPeople holiday party without a microphone and a songbook. Which of course means that we have hundreds of … Continue reading Serious About Books. Serious About Karaoke.
There are two things I love to do to escape the brutal summer heat: read a good book in the comfort of my cool, darkened apartment and watch a good movie in a cool, darkened theater. I may even take a book to read during the pre-movie entertainment that hardly anyone pays any attention to. … Continue reading John G.’s Summer Reads
Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis is launching a brand new series for children this fall, Recipe for Adventure. She'll be here at BookPeople Wednesday, September 11 at 7pm to sign copies of the first and second books in the series, Naples! and Paris! This event is a signing only. Tickets are required and are … Continue reading Giada De Laurentiis is Coming to BookPeople!
~Guest Post by Elizabeth L. Silver, Author of The Execution of Noa P. Singleton When you’re a writer and a lawyer, people often think that the law came first. You may be pinned “a lawyer who wrote a book,” instead of the reverse. While pursuing a career as a novelist, I spent years working in … Continue reading A Writer Who Went to Law School to Find Her Story
Check out the new trailer for MaddAddam, the forthcoming novel from Margaret Atwood that finishes the trilogy begun by Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood: Emily nabbed the reader for this one and has been reading it over the summer. Her take: "MaddAddam ties the two previous novels together in a way … Continue reading MaddAddam Trailer
HARDCOVER FICTION The Rathbones by Janice Clark A gothic, literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous and now crumbling whaling family, told by its last surviving member. PAPERBACK FICTION A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee For readers of Jonathan … Continue reading New Releases
This month we're getting our karaoke groove on with Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes, the Statesman Selects pick for August. We're big fans of Sheffield's previous books, Love is a Mix Tape and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran. In his latest, Sheffield takes us on his journey out of heartbreak through the healing power … Continue reading Statesman Selects: TURN AROUND BRIGHT EYES
Hi. I'm Wilbur, and here is my summer reading list of my top 7 recommendations for you're consideration. I apologize for going over 5 but what can I say - I'm outta control, no rules here. I'm supposed to mention my favorite place to read, but lets just say it is alway important to me … Continue reading Wilbur’s Summer Reads
The Voyage Out Book Group’s Reader’s Guide to Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
Book Information:
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
Pantheon
564 pages
9780394752846
Region:
The Literature of Latin America
Other Books From Region:
Roberto Bolano’s By Night in Chile
Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat
Author Bio:
Julio Cortazar lived from 1914-1984. Known most for his fantastical short stories, Cortazar’s Hopscotch will also live on as one of the more challenging texts of the 20th century.
Born in Brussels to Argentinian parents, Cortazar’s family moved back to Argentina when he was around four years old. His childhood was spent in a suburb of Buenos Aires. He studied at a teacher’s training college, and went on to teach, briefly, on the secondary level.
A radical by nature, Cortazar became involved in many of the political movements of his time. A dedicated anti-Peronist, he also supported the Cuban revolution, Allende’s…
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~post by Marie I choose a book to read for many different reasons. Sometimes I’m in the mood for something intellectual, a cerebral story that makes me bust out the dictionary app on my phone every five pages and re-read a sentence thrice to savor the complex syntax and erudite overtones. Other times, I want … Continue reading All Souls Trilogy, Almost (2 down 1 to go)
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