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If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio Wow, this book was a wild ride! I was instantly drawn in by lovingly-created complex characters, and an intensely involving plot. It's hard to believe this is Rio's debut novel! It was a hard book to put down and kept me up til the wee hours of the … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
If BookPeople were a human, with all the necessary organs and appendages, Merrilee and her son Thomas would be it’s heart. For 24 years Merrilee has been part of the BookKid’s team and Thomas practically grew up in the bookstore--today they are recognized by our community as masters of literary knowledge (Merrilee can name picture … Continue reading Top Shelf July
Not One Day by Anne Garréta Texas is hot. This book is hotter. (And more beautiful and complex and surprising and will make you want to go out and live, love, travel, and climb so you can one day hope to write such a scorcher.) —Molly The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Big Woods By May Cobb: Happy pub day to May Cobb's debut novel Big Woods, on our shelves now! Set in a small Texas town, Big Woods is the story of a sister desperately trying to uncover the truth of her kidnapped sibling with the help of a reclusive widow. May Cobb is here TONIGHT … Continue reading New Releases 7/10
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill 20th Century Ghosts called out to me when brainstorming ideas for the book I'd select as my Summer Reads pick. It came to me suddenly, I thought, "What captures the feeling of summer better than ghost stories told 'round the campfire?" Joe Hill's tales, however, aren't just a pack … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
This week I read a book by a French cartoonist called The Mental Load. It’s both a feminist education and the story of the artist’s own journey toward feminism, beginning with the mental load of managing a household and covering topics such as cutting a woman’s perineum during childbirth without her consent and the inevitable … Continue reading New & Noteworthy Book Club discusses Red Clocks
There's a lot of talk about data and algorithms in mainstream discourse these days. Even if you don't follow data scientists and digital media scholars on Twitter (like I do), you'll be hard-pressed to find someone with a social media account that hasn't at least heard about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal. *Here's a good primer … Continue reading We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves – Review
Jade, one of our booksellers, was stuck in a reading rut. Luckily, poet Neil Hilborn pulled her out of it. Check out her review of his book, The Future, below. We’ve all been there, right? Stuck in a reading rut, the precarious jenga tower of books on your bedside table just screaming at you that … Continue reading Bookseller Review: ‘The Future’ by Neil Hilborn
...or: if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. brought to you by Mat and Jason So Mat and Jason decided that BP's cooking section needed some love. Thus, they put together an end cap made up of their favorite food and food-related books currently available in the store. Please be patient … Continue reading Crazy from the Heat…
by Razieh Snow (Kar) by Orhan Pamuk Snow is a novel of many different layers. It is a mystery, a portrayal of a socio/cultural change of a country en route to modernization, and a challenge of different political/religious popular views. There is also an interesting layer of symmetry in original title “Kar”, the protagonist’s … Continue reading Found in Translation: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
