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~Post by Steven Does your skin recoil from the dread crispness that has invaded the atmosphere this Autumn? Can you feel the intermittent raindrops mocking your petty existence? Has the stinking crush of humanity in Zilker Park sent you fleeing in a blind panic to the nearest bookstore for a calming tincture of familiarity? As … Continue reading An Apple a Day Keeps the Nightmares Away
Our Same Page Teen Book Club meets this Saturday, and it's going to be full of books, free food and drinks, and teens discussing vampire books. That's right books. You see now, the teen book club reads one primary book every month, but we also discuss other books that are "On the Same Page" as … Continue reading Same Page Teen Book Club
Once a month the teens gather with me to discuss our latest read. This Saturday, we'll be coming together to discuss A Brief History of Montmaray. In this wonderful tale set on the fictional island kingdom of Montmaray, Princess Sophie, her sister and her cousin long for Paris or London, or any place other than … Continue reading Teen Bookclub This Thursday!
Our teens have been busy helping us on the floor, developing displays, and writing reviews. Here are a few of their thoughts on some of the books they've been reading: Ruby Red "Filled with many twists ,turns, and lots of humor, Ruby Red has made my top ten summer reads of 2011." To read Laura's … Continue reading What Our Teen Interns Are Reading . . .
I love reading books with a book club. I like the comradery, I like reading a book I might not have picked up on my own, heck I even like the "pressure" of making sure I get the book read by a certain date. Galleycat has just announced a really cool new program for book … Continue reading Attn Book Clubs (and authors!)
If you made a resolution to read more, and don't particularly care for novels, then we have the book club for you: Stranger Than Fiction Book Club (STFBC) has been around for about a year and a half and we are rapidly expanding the type of non-fiction we are reading to include cultural studies, memoirs and true crime, which is in addition to science, business and psychology. Basically, if it really happened and it's told in a fascinating manor then we want to read about it.
On December 29th, Wednesday, 7PM, The Hard Word Book Club will be discussing one of my favorite westerns - Richard Matheson's Journal Of The Gun Years. It's a truly unique and authentic title in the genre. What makes it even more of an accomplishment was that it was Matheson's first western.
I love my book group. It’s a diverse bunch of incredible readers. We laugh, we think, and we argue! It’s a lot of fun. We’re BookPeople’s very own Voyage Out Book Group, and we read regional fiction, picking three titles from similar locales, then discussing those as a way to expand our literary chops, meanwhile creating a mini, imaginary vacation. Literary tourism without leaving Austin, this is why having a local bookstore is such an asset to our city.
In the last three years, BookPeople's mystery section has grown into something special. Our stock as well as our sales have increased-- especially with titles like Reed Farrel Coleman's Moe Prager series, and some you can't find at other stores. Mystery authors like CJ Box and Craig Johnson now make this store a stop on practically every book tour they have. We've attracted more fans of the genre, even from outside the city, to where it feels like we're becoming Austin's de facto mystery bookstore. So we've decided to make it official. On November 7th we're launching our own mystery bookstore within a bookstore, MysteryPeople.
OCTOBER 29TH - HARD WORD BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES RJ ROZAN'S ABSENT FRIENDS WITH CALL IN FROM AUTHOR One of the things crime fiction conveys better than any genre is loss. A human being's extinguished existence is what usually sets the plot in motion. Whether a detective questioning those who knew the victim or a hard boiled hero out for revenge, the protagonist tours through a void, seeking tangible answers to give some sense of meaning. SJ Rozan's Absent Friends is a prime example of this.
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