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When most people think of poetry for kids, Shel Silverstein often comes to mind, and rightly so since his poems are a silly and delightful right-of-passage for any child. April, being National Poetry Month, offers the perfect time to take a look at the variety and scope of poetry for children beyond the Silverstein collections. … Continue reading Kids Poetry Month: New Books!
In Turpentine, Alia Volz recounts her childhood with an artist mother. It is a short, beautiful story centered around the scent of the turpentine her mother used while painting. "When the muse is gorged and satisfied, it will abandon her body like a used rubber glove, leaving her saggy and deflated, a formless, useless biohazard. My mom … Continue reading weekend reading
Big news today! Texan and bestselling author Jenny Lawson (a. k. a. The Bloggess) has a brand new book coming out in September - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things! She shared the news on her blog: "For most of my life I’ve battled depression, anxiety and a host of other disorders, but … Continue reading New Book From the Bloggess: FURIOUSLY HAPPY
HARDCOVER FICTION At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen After disgracing themselves at a high society New Year’s Eve party in Philadelphia in 1944, Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a former army colonel who is already ashamed of his son’s inability to serve in the … Continue reading New Books! 3/31/15
Ocean Songs, by Ethan Rutherford is likely my favorite thing from Covered with Fur so far. The language is startlingly beautiful and highly Melville-esque. I mean, the first chapter is: "Before we were swimmers we were men. In the Morning and cramped it were our hunger that turned, and before us the Quaker laid the sea and … Continue reading weekend reading
Hello Friends and Fellow Travelers! As previously noted on several occasions, the Book Multiverse is a vast and mind-boggling place, full of life, full of stars, full of dark matter, nebulae, galaxies, event horizons, and space fish. Sure, I'm no astronomer, but I'm positive that somewhere out there, there are space fish. Still, though it … Continue reading News from the Book Multiverse
Walking through the store the other day, a stack of books piled high in one arm and ready for reshelving, a bookseller's eye was drawn to the cover of a book that was faced out on a shelf. She set down her stack and pulled the book off the shelf and investigated. It's a story … Continue reading Around the Shop, On the Shelf 3/27/15
There are only so many hours in the day, so many days in a year, and always, there are more books than we can possibly read. You probably understand this problem. Many of us on staff at BookPeople keep track of the books we read over the course of a calendar year. There are always … Continue reading Kids Books from 2014 You Might Have Missed
It's that time of year when everything, even familiar things, feels new again. We smile more, the air is clear (unless you count the pollen), the bluebonnets are back, and we are starting to break out our warmer-weather clothing. It's spring! Spring has to be one of the prettiest seasons in BookKids. Easter and spring … Continue reading Bunnies, chicks, and eggs, oh my!
Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto by Aaron Franklin Reviewed by Joe T. Somewhere along the path of life, Austin became famous for its barbecue. This was not always the case and, in fact, was considered a barbecue desert surrounded by the oases of Taylor and Lockhart. Now people from all over the world line-up and … Continue reading Top Shelf in April: FRANKLIN BARBECUE by Aaron Franklin
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