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~Post by Scott Montgomery, MysteryPeople Crime Fiction Coordinator With Joe Lansdale coming to the store tonight to read from and sign Edge of Dark Water, I wanted to get caught up with his sceond to last book, All The Earth, Thrown To The Sky. Considered a young adult title, he creates a world as dark … Continue reading MysteryPeople Presents Joe Lansdale
Book: The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure Reviewed by: Clint Everyone who grew up in the 1970's remembers watching Little House On The Prairie. Wendy McClure has a fascination, no, obsession with the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family, particularly the story told in the books. This leads her to some very interesting … Continue reading Book Review: ‘The Wilder Life’ by Wendy McClure
Book: October 1964 by David Halberstam Reviewed by: Joe T. October 1964, David Halberstam’s ode to the battle between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, is an amazing portrait of America in flux. 1964’s baseball season was the first to follow the assassination of JFK, the first to follow MLK’s March on … Continue reading Book Review: ‘October 1964’ by David Halberstam
If you're a fan of YA fiction, April is your month here at BookPeople! We've got two, count 'em TWO panels featuring YA authors coming your way. Monday, April 16 = This is Teen! Live! This is Teen is a community on facebook dedicated to reading, relating, and connecting readers with authors. The live … Continue reading April Brings On the YA Panels
The events we co-sponsor with Edible Austin magazine are always fabulous affairs. Editor Marla Camp goes the extra mile to bring together as many local chefs, food and drink purveyors, and terrific authors (both local and national) as she can. This time, she and the Edible staff have really outdone themselves. This Monday, April 2 … Continue reading A Taste of Texas & Tales of Tuscany
Every judge weighed in, and in the end, honors when to The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. Woo hoo! None of us picked it to win, but plenty of us loved reading this book and highly recommend it. It was one of Hoyt's Top 5 Reads of 2011. Glad to see it go home with … Continue reading Tournament of Books Winner!!!!
Big congratulations to The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Illinois! They've been named Publisher's Weekly's Bookstore of the Year! They have an impressive events roster this season - Madeline Albright, Anna Quindlen, you can catch Jacquline Winspear there this Monday. Next time you're in Winnetka, make sure to stop by.
This time I have a solid excuse for being late with our Tournament of Books update: the brackets have disappeared. Where once hung our ToB picks now hang bookmarks we're all meant to be judging for our 2012 BookMark Contest. So I can't tell you where anyone stands. But I can tell you what's been … Continue reading Tournament of Books
In The Wilder Life, author Wendy McClure chronicles her pursuit of the "Laura experience", living the life Laura Ingalls Wilder writes about in her classic Little House on the Prairie books. Inspired by tales of McClure's attempts at churning butter in her apartment, and excited to welcome her here to the store on Monday, April … Continue reading Living the Wilder Life
Next Wednesday, April 4 at 9:30am the Austin Independent Business Alliance will launch their Local Business Manifesto at a press conference on our third floor. The result of a year of research and analysis, The Manifesto outlines three goals of locally-owned businesses as well as programs to achieve those goals. From the AIBA's press release: … Continue reading AIBA Launches Local Business Manifesto
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