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Feast your funny bones on the trailer for Jenny Lawson's memoir Let's Pretend This Never Happened: Advance copies of the book have been making the rounds and our booksellers concur - if you're a fan of David Sedaris, you're going to love this. We're stoked to have Jenny here at the store on April 25! … Continue reading For Intellectual Misfits
So many good books on sale today! As usual, blurbs provided by the books' publishers. HARDCOVER FICTION Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, Joe Spork has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life fixing antique clocks. That orderly existence … Continue reading New Releases
Three more rounds of the Tournament of Books have come and gone, and not without some serious, serious upset. We're now done with Opening Round, which means that as of tomorrow, bookseller picks will be awarded two points for winning picks. Here's where we stand: Round #6 Swamplandia! by Karen Russell versus The Cat's Table … Continue reading Tournament of Books Catch Up
~Post by Joe T. If you’re anything like me and my many coworkers, you have become completely bewitched by the BBC/PBS television show, Downton Abbey. A kind of riff off the old seventies drama Upstairs, Downstairs, the show focuses on both the servants and the titled family that live at the estate from which the … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Downton Abbey Edition
We asked Stephanya, one of the leaders of our This Is Your Life Book Club which meets monthly to discuss rock bios, history books, and anything to do with the rise and realm of rock 'n roll, for her list of the best music-related books she's read in the last year. Here's what Stephanya has … Continue reading Recommended Reading: SXSW Edition
Book: When the Killing's Done by T. C. Boyle Reviewed by: Liz Wyckoff When I was a teenager, I killed a squirrel and watched it come back to life. I remember it clearly: the little guy prancing determinedly into my slow-moving car’s path, the enormous crabapple held gleefully in its mouth, my view in the … Continue reading Book Review: ‘When the Killing’s Done’ by T. C. Boyle
All right, we have some catching up to do with the Tournament of Books. If Round #2 was a bloodbath, Rounds #3 and #4 are golden victory romps around here. Round #5....gets a little more complicated. Round #3 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami versus The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah Judged by Misha Angrist Winner: According … Continue reading Tournament of Books Catch Up
Book: And Blue Skies from Pain by Stina Leicht Reviewed by: Joe T. And Blue Skies from Pain, the follow up to last year's highly acclaimed debut novel, Of Blood and Honey, firmly sets local author Stina Leicht on the road to well-earned success. Like Charles de Lint and China Mieville, she sets her urban … Continue reading Book Review: ‘And Blue Skies from Pain’ by Stina Leicht
Brand new today! Blurbs courtesy of the books' publishers. HARDCOVER FICTION The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor Heidi Julavots, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another. Julia Severn is a student at an elite … Continue reading New Releases
Merrilee Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger "I like Tom Angleberger a lot, and I love this book in particular because it's completely wacky, ridiculous, over-the-top fun. A boy buys a mustache that has super powers at a variety store for $129.99. He puts it on and hypnotizes everyone in his town, state, and eventually the … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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