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In case you haven't heard, tomorrow is a big day for football. But there is another really big day early in the morning on Monday, February 2. No one will be spiking the ball, evaluating multi-million dollar commercials, or lip syncing at halftime. Nope, the question Monday morning will be "what will win?" as children's … Continue reading The Super Bowl of Children’s Literature, 2/2/14
Are you hankerin' to curl up with a good book but sitting in front of your computer instead? Well, I have a few ideas for you! In The Rumpus, Kevin Thomas reviews Crystal Eaters, by Shane Jones. In Discuss Rules Beforehand, Chris Kraus (author of I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, Summer of Hate, and many … Continue reading Weekend Reading
Hello BookPeople Nation! What's new in the vasty, star-spangly, ink-and-papery book multiverse? I'm so glad you asked! A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species has been sold for an amazing 26,000 pounds (approximately 40,000 dollars). Author Jhumpa Lahiri has won the DSC Award for South Asian fiction for her recent novel, … Continue reading News from the Book Multiverse
~post by Emily Two of our booksellers have written a brand new book that will be on our shelves next week. Vegan Survival Guide to Austin is the first of its kind - a guide to the many vegan friendly restaurants and food trucks here in town, as well as a look at the history of … Continue reading BookPeople Q&A with Vegan Survival Guide to Austin
EMILY K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling I'm reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the first time. I love it!! I wanted something that I knew that would be a fun, light, read, but I was surprised and impressed with how much more depth it has … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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! After a three month hiatus, Teen Thursday is back! We have so much news to bring you that this is a special edition. Teen Press Corps New Year Reading Resolutions … Continue reading Teen Thursday – 1/29/15
Top Shelf in February: Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link Reviewed by Ben It’s always hard to review a book that has been so lauded. Karen Russell, Neil Gaiman, Sarah Waters, Michael Chabon, Yiyun Li, Peter Straub kick off a list of those who have already demonstrated their esteem for Kelly Link’s work, so adding my … Continue reading Top Shelf in February: GET IN TROUBLE by Kelly Link
HARDCOVER FICTION The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon The sequel to The Bone Clocks is finally here! Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye … Continue reading New Books! 1/27/15
I'm not really sure where or when my love of reading began, but I know it's a love that I was very fortunate to have encouraged and enabled by the adults in my life. I was raised by parents who read for themselves and also read aloud to my brother and me. Books were - … Continue reading You’re never too old to be read to
The (completely wonderful) Austin based small press, A Strange Object, launched their online magazine (Covered With Fur) this week!!! This is very exciting news. Check out their fiction, Are You Running Away?, by Bess Winter, and their not-fiction, Dear Albert, Dear Allison, by Ander Monson, in this week's issue. Alia Volz's essay, In Any Light, is about a childhood spent … Continue reading Weekend Reading
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