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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 02/23/15
There's a new(ish) literary journal in Austin, The Austin Review! From their most recent issue, An Execution, by Gabe Durham, is a comment about the death penalty and how, in our modern technological age, the internet grants a type of anonymity that often leads to less-than-well-thought-out commentary on serious issues- like the loss of life. The Austin Review … Continue reading weekend reading
Hello once again, friends an fellow intrepid explorers of the ever expanding, ever bountiful, mysterious and yet-to-be-fully-grokked-by-mere-humans book multiverse! We're back with yet another report on what's new out there among the literary nebulae and grammatically galactic goings on: A lost Sherlock Holmes short story has been discovered in the attic of historian Walter Elliot. The story … Continue reading News from the Book Multiverse
The Required Reading Revisited Book Club is just one of the many great book clubs here at Book People. We focus on books considered "Required Reading" by most educational institutions, i.e. books you read (or were supposed to read) in school - either high school or university. Last month we discussed Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Or, … Continue reading Required Reading Revisited Book Club!
Dr. Michio Kaku is known for many things. Among them, he's the co-founder of String Field Theory, he's a professor of Theoretical Physics at City College of New York, and he's a best selling author of many of our favorite books about science. Like the late, great Carl Sagan, and the beloved Neil Degrasse Tyson, … Continue reading Dr. Michio Kaku is at The Paramount Theater Monday, Feb 23rd!
Keep Austin Weird is a familiar and apropos motto here in Austin. In BookKids, we even have a weird picture book section. Books get shelved in weird if they are just a little off beat for some reason. It could be the artwork, story, format, or the general "feel" of the book that gets it … Continue reading Keep Austin Reading Weird 2015
Molly Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear "This is our next book club book for the 7% Solution Book Club, and I just got started reading it. Birds of a Feather is the second Maisie Dobbs novel, continuing the saga of the former maid and now private investigator, graduate of the Great War and … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Keija Parssinen, award-winning author of the novel Ruins of Us, is set to launch a brand new novel next month. The Unravling of Mercy Louis is set in southeast Texas and follows the life of the town's championship high school basketball player, Mercy Louis, as she confronts the consequences of family secrets scrutinized by a small town. Maggie … Continue reading Keija Parssinen Will Sign YOUR Book!
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! Meet Author Richelle Mead this Sunday! Bestselling Young Adult author RICHELLE MEAD speaking & signing The Ruby Circle: A Bloodlines Novel on Sunday, February 22 at 2PM Mega bestselling YA … Continue reading Teen Thursday – 2/19/15
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. February's Statesman Selects pick is the memoir Girl In A Band by Sonic Youth founding member Kim Gordon. Pick up a copy of the Statesman on Sunday, … Continue reading Statesman Selects February 2015: GIRL IN A BAND
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