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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 3/20/15
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! PAPER TOWNS Movie News Extravaganza! It has been a super busy week for news about the Paper Towns movie. Based on the fantastic novel by one of our faves, John … Continue reading Teen Thursday 3/19/15
BETHANY The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams "Carol Adams takes a fascinating look at the many connections between the oppression of women and the oppression of animals throughout human history. She considers, among other topics, the cultural phenomenon of conflating women's bodies and cuts of meat (in advertisements for chicken that ask … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
HARDCOVER FICTION The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday Poxl West is the epitome of manhood and something of an idol to his teenage nephew, Eli Goldstein, who reveres him as a brave, singular, Jewish war hero. Poxl fills Eli's head with electric accounts of his derring-do, adventures and romances, as he collects … Continue reading New Books! 3/17/2015
Tonight is the night that The Nightmare Factory Book Club dons our black robes, straps on our sacrificial knives, and gathers together in the BookPeople cafe to celebrate the unholy ritual of discussing Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. To prepare ourselves, The Nightmare Factory has scoured the non-euclidean corners of the internet and found … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory’s Missing Links for March 2015
It's been a couple of months since we've checked in with you guys so we wanted to share our thoughts on our last few months of reading. Merrilee: In Febuary we read Listening is an Act of Love, edited by Dave Isay. I love reading about other peoples' lives, but sometimes a whole memoir is just … Continue reading Updates From The Stranger Than Fiction Book Club
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for our monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, we get together to select one book you absolutely must not miss. The Statesman Selects pick for March is the debut novel by Austin author Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau. Pick up a copy of the Statesman on Sunday, March 22 to read … Continue reading Statesman Selects: HAUSFRAU
Quite a long time ago, 150 years in fact, down down down the rabbit hole little Alice went, and when she came out again she was not the same person as went in. Not at all! Her curiously wonderful journey, filled with as many rash impulses and poor choices as any adolescent's life could possibly be, … Continue reading 150 Years of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland at The Ransom Center
The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth Reviewed by Raul It is uncanny how a writer can so easily create a work that revitalizes a genre and sends it in a new direction simultaneously leading the reader on a breathless chase after clues that reassert the book's place as a solid detective mystery. And this … Continue reading Book Review: The Devil’s Detective
BookPeople is thrilled to host nearly staff-run a dozen book clubs every month. All but one of the clubs meets right here in the store. Following are this week's discussions. We hope you find one that fits your favorite genre! All BookPeople book club meetings are free and open to the public. Book club picks are 10% … Continue reading Book Club Meeting Round-Up for Week 3/15/15
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