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We are excited to announce a brand new book club at BookPeople! Thanks to the American Booksellers Association, we're one of many stores launching a Well Read Black Girl Book Club! The first meeting will be April 22nd at 7pm to discuss N.K. Jemisin's How Long 'til Black Future Month. Check out the note below from Raven … Continue reading New Well Read Black Girl Book Club
By Christine Havens The ATXSciRead book group is off to a great start after our first meeting in September. We had 18 people come to BookPeople’s third-floor meeting room for a lively discussion of David Quammen’s The Tangled Tree, which presents a different way of looking at a model of “the tree of life,” most … Continue reading Something for Everyone: The ATXSciRead Book Group
The world of fiction has its canon, those books agreed upon by old white men sitting in closed rooms, though PBS’ The Great American Read recently and publicly gave more voice to “everyday” readers, thus opening up the list of novels considered classics. Each fiction genre has its own canon, too. But what about the … Continue reading Can You Predict a Classic Science Read? Come to the December Meeting of the ATXSciRead Book Group to Find Out
Our first book-club meeting ended with a lingering image. As we were wrapping up our discussion Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, one participant chimed in with a scene from the TV show Mad Men that had come to mind while reading the book. In the scene, housewife Betty Draper shakes out a picnic blanket, nonchalantly tumbling … Continue reading ATX SciRead Bookclub Recap + Preview
The Voyage Out Book Group has been meeting for a decade now, and it has been a blast. We choose books in three-month chunks. Three months of novels from Japan. Three months of novels from the American South. Three months of novels from the Balkans. The reason for these chunks? We wanted to find a … Continue reading Voyage Out Book Club: Reading Is Social
In high school, my brother Alan won the state heavyweight championship in his division. I was in college—he’s two years younger than I am—and I couldn’t make the championship, but my parents called in triumph to tell me the legendary tale. My brother had a move they called “The Hammer,” a magnificent feat of strength … Continue reading New & Noteworthy Book Club Reads Stephen Florida
The Austin Texas Science Writers, known as ATXSciWri, invites lovers of science and nature writing to join the newest BookPeople book club, ATXSciRead. The first meeting is Sunday, October 7, at 4:00 pm in the café area on the first floor. BookPeople is pleased to have this exciting new group among our offerings. October’s book … Continue reading ATXSciRead: A Book Club Devoted to Science and Nature Writing
The Voyage Out Book Group has been meeting for quite a while. We are your basic book group in that we read a book a month and discuss it in an open forum—typically we read literary novels between 200 and 500 pages. What makes us a little different is that we choose three-month regions (mostly) … Continue reading Voyage Out Book Group-Literary Adaptations
This month the New and Noteworthy book club read Fight No More by Lydia Millet. I didn’t expect it to be a tough book to write a blog post about, but it’s the day of the book club and I’ve been at a blank for two weeks. Part of the reason is that the content of … Continue reading Let’s Talk About That One Short Story in FIGHT NO MORE
By Cathy Maxwell I’m sunbound in Austin, my favorite time to read. I enjoy a long afternoon of reading until the world cools down enough to go outside. It is my treat for all the weed-pulling I have to do. Here are some of my latest faves— The Kissing Quotient by Helen Hoang caught me … Continue reading The Romance Bookshelves—Great for a lazy afternoon!
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