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~post by Children's Book Buyer Meghan G. We love summer, and we love books here at BookPeople. We have a great summer reading program currently going on for kids from kindergarten through 8th grade. But what about those tiniest book fans? Here are some our favorite picks for summer storytimes. The Watermelon Seed by Greg … Continue reading Favorite Picks for Summer Storytimes
HARDCOVER FICTION Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar “senses”—innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people’s secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them. Now, years … Continue reading New Releases
~post by Joe This is the hardest thing I have ever written. How do I put into words all the ways Richard Matheson has influenced me and the world we live in. That sounds wrong. Richard Matheson created the world we live in. When we gather around the figurative water cooler and talk about the … Continue reading Remembering Richard Matheson
~post by Steven W. It's time to play the music! It's time to light the lights! It's time to meet Steve and Flippo at BookPeople tonight! It's time to read a memoir! It's time to dress up right! It's time for the Stand Up Sit Down book club tonight! Why do we always come here? … Continue reading Stand Up, Sit Down Book Club discusses BOSSYPANTS
Just a week remains until we discuss Roberto Bolano’s novel By Night in Chile. Excitement is building. I’ve been entertained, perplexed, and engrossed in this slim book. I can’t wait to hear what everybody else thought, and I can’t wait to learn about how to better read this disjointed text. Love it, hate it, you have to have a reaction to it, and I think that’s the whole point of what we’re doing here.
This book doesn’t give you breaks. Fine. We can figure that out. But, what it does give you is a beginning. The start of this book, oddly enough, is a call to put it down and pick up another book. Bolano’s vague epigraph is as follows:
“Take off your wig.”
CHESTERTON
A little research shows this line to be pulled from a short story by G.K. Chesterton called The Purple Wig. So here are…
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My summer reading is usually done whenever I have a spare moment away from our literary camps where I work. My absolute favorite, though, is a nice two or three hour reading session in the hammock in my backyard. 1. Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch by Ben Thompson History has never been so much fun, or quite … Continue reading Tommy’s Summer Reads
~post by Marie I am often championing science fiction and fantasy for its amazing imaginative scope and its ability to point to touchy political, social, religious, and ethical themes in a way that would otherwise be impossible under normal fiction and literature criteria. Phillip K. Dick’s cult classic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep explores … Continue reading Sci Friday: DO ANDROIDS DREAM v. BLADE RUNNER
Did you go to the Austin Teen Book Festival last year? If so, you know all about the amazing author panels ranging from mystical beasts to realistic romance. Libba Bray and our very own Jedi, Topher, had an epic light saber battle complete with smoke machines. We had hundreds of books signed, and ate a … Continue reading Teen Thursday
I keep my summer reading on the escapist side. I'm not looking for a heavy intellectual challenge. I'm looking for a respite from the oppressive central Texas summer heat. I prefer to read at home, at night in my bed with crickets chirping in the trees outside my window and my ceiling fan blowing on … Continue reading Bosco’s Summer Reading List
Our friends at the brand new small press A Strange Object are kicking off their Tesseract event series this Thursday night on the roof deck of AMOA-Arthouse. It is going to be, to use the parlance of our times, awesome. The first thing you need to know is that Claire Vaye Watkins will be there … Continue reading Tesseract. Thursday. You Won’t Be Sorry.
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