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Alexey Pajitnov - Russian video game designer and inventor of Tetris Tetris - a tile-matching puzzle game, named #2 in 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time by IGN in 2007. Box Brown - American cartoonist, and author/illustrator of Tetris: The Games People Play Tetris has a bit of a legendary status in the video game … Continue reading Tetris:The Games People Play by Box Brown
Ellen's pick of the week: Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World written & illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky "From Hypatia to Maryam Mirzakhani, this is a wonderful and informative introduction to women who are left-brain thinkers (mostly) and the contributions they have made to our knowledge & understanding of the world. The author … Continue reading New Books! 7/26/16
Ollie thought of every trick he’d ever seen in every battle movie he and Billy had watched and in every book that had been read to them. “Okay!” he commanded. “Our plan is gonna be: do some Robin Hood, and some Use the Force Luke, and some Trojan Horse, and some...Yellow Submarine.” - Ollie’s Odyssey, … Continue reading Top Shelf in July: OLLIE’S ODYSSEY by William Joyce
Smoke has one of the most highly original premises of any novel I've read recently, and yet it also has elements of Dickens, Philip Pullman and Suzanne Collins, among others. Vyleta seems to pull from many ideas, but re-imagines them in a unique way. His style has much to do with it. At times his … Continue reading Top Shelf in June: SMOKE by Dan Vyleta
This post comes from our French intern, R. Follow them at @Libre _R. (Check out their other blog posts.) If you need to know why I'm so excited, head over to the end of my introductory blog post. I was over the moon when I came to work one day and saw the beautiful display … Continue reading It’s June! It’s LGBTQ Pride Month!!
BookPeople is buzzing. Everyone is getting excited about the arrival of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II, so excited that we’re throwing a midnight release party! (Get your vouchers here!) And so excited that one of our booksellers, Melissa, is going back and rereading all of the original seven Harry Potter books and … Continue reading Rereading Harry Potter as an Adult: Part 3
This post comes from our former bookseller Steven Warren. There are a number of high water marks that a person hits on the way to actual, mental adulthood. Things like financial independence, the onset of bodily failure, and becoming genuinely annoyed by teenagers and their antics are all telltale signs of maybe kind of being … Continue reading Stephen’s Pick: DAVE HILL DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
This review comes from our event team member Meike. Temperatures are rising and it’s officially pool and beach season, so it’s time to lighten up our reading selections—even the most highbrow reader might want to throw in some less serious reading over the next few months. And The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews fits the … Continue reading Staff Review: THE WEEKENDERS by Mary Kay Andrews
BookPeople is buzzing. Everyone is getting excited about the arrival of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II, so excited that we’re throwing a midnight release party! (Get your vouchers here!) And so excited that one of our booksellers, Melissa, is going back and rereading all of the original seven Harry Potter books and giving … Continue reading Rereading Harry Potter as an Adult Part 2
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for their monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, BookPeople will highlight the Statesman’s top recommended read for Austin. May's pick is White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer. Dyer will join us here at BookPeople Thursday, May 19 at 7PM to speak and … Continue reading Statesman Selects in May: WHITE SANDS by Geoff Dyer
