Howdy! We're the largest independent bookstore in Texas. This is our blog.
~Post by Brian C. This is the latest in a series of reviews of experimental fiction written by BookPeople Brian C. and Jenn S. Brian and Jenn have made it their mission this summer to open up their reading lives to the weird, the odd, the curious, the avant garde, and the totally out-there in … Continue reading Call Her Crazy, Call Her Avante-Garde, Call Her Kathy Acker, Part of Our Experimental Summer
Publisher Harper Perennial is currently running a sale on 20 of their eBook titles - for the month of August, these 20 eBooks are 99¢ each. Yowza! You can buy these (and ANY eBook) via our website, http://www.bookpeople.com. So you can get your crazy futuristic electronic books and still support your favorite brick & mortar … Continue reading SALE! 99¢ ebooks from Harper Perennial
~Post by MysteryPeople Crime Fiction Coordinator Scott Montgomery MysteryPeople will welcome CJ Box to BookPeople Friday, August 5, 7p For years CJ Box has delivered one engaging read after another with his put-upon game warden Joe Pickett. His consistency had many of us taking him for granted. That ended when his first stand-alone, Blue … Continue reading CJ Box Comes to MysteryPeople With a Unique New Thriller
___________________________________________ Tommy A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin. "I'm just finishing A Dance with Dragons and about to start reading Ready Player One, which I've really been looking forward to getting into. A Dance with Dragons is the exposition we've been waiting years to get. It fills in the holes left by … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
We've been running into Origami Yoda all over town this week, how about you? If you've seen him, send us a picture! Maybe you've seen him in origami form, or on the cover of your copy of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, or maybe you've seen him in his Keep Austin Weird t-shirt. Whatever … Continue reading Where Have You Seen Origami Yoda?
Earlier this week, the venerable D. C. indie Politics & Prose posted photos of their bookseller's bookshelves to their facebook page. We loved the idea (and the pictures) and thought it would be fun to see what's on our own shelves. So, here you go, snapshots of personal BookPerson libraries:
Posted by Danny Here's the deal on Steampunk, a potentially huge subgenre a la all those novels featuring vampires, zombies, werewolves, etc.... Steampunk novels almost always take place in a Victorian alt-world wherein this era's technology, usually steam powered hence the "steam" in steam punk, has evolved a thousand times faster than it did in … Continue reading Danny Sets Us Straight on Steampunk
~Post by MysteryPeople Crime Fiction Coordinator Scott Montgomery We're halfway through 2011, and it's already been a strong year for crime fiction. Since I know other great books are coming out soon by some of my favorite authors and new unknowns come out with something every season that always blows me away, I thought it … Continue reading Top Ten Crime Fiction Novels of the Year So Far
BookPeople is a cool place to work for a lot of reasons. There's being on the front lines of all the new books that come out, meeting famous people when they swing through on book tour, and the fact that our primary job is to talk to people about books all day. But there's also … Continue reading BookPerson Nolan Makes Art, Throws a Party
Here's a sneak peek at the Top Shelf in this month's Independent, BookPeople's paper newsletter available in-store. This month, Master Bookseller Kester Smith reviewed the soon-to-be-released novel by Austinite Ernie Cline, Ready Player One. We're planning a big 80's night release party for Ernie on Tuesday, August 23rd, 7p. Details of the party are … Continue reading August Top Shelf: ‘Ready Player One’
BookPeople 