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Welcome to our Book Club Corner, where each month we highlight books new to paperback we think would make perfect picks for your next book club discussion. If you’re looking to join a book club, we host a wide variety of free, bookseller-run book clubs right here at BookPeople. Join us! We love to talk books. _______________________________________________________ … Continue reading Book Club Corner: March Recommendations
~post by Sutterfield I love food, I love books. I love books about food (and food in the shape of books?). My kitchen has become a small temple, where I light little fires and watch the raw earth become food for those I love. Bread and soup and beets. I love to cook. 'Course, it … Continue reading Sutter’s Kitchen: AN EVERLASTING MEAL
Click Here: LA Times Book Festival added links to IndieBound to the festival's website. “It’s good to know that SCIBA members are now considered on the same page, literally, with Amazon,” said executive director Andrea Vuleta. “We want to make sure that consumers have the choice to buy locally."#Win: Awards this week: George Saunders won the … Continue reading Book World Buzz
Last year, I read a book that has continued to haunt me. I find myself thinking about it, puzzling over its structure, its twists and turns and endless fascinating layers. It was an unsuspecting novel by Kristopher Jansma, his first, that I picked up one day on a whim and couldn’t put down: The Unchangeable … Continue reading The Writer’s Life & The Intricacies of the Creative Process
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corp! _______________________________________________________________________ March Buzz Book: The Scar Boys by Len Vlahos The Teen Press Corp's Buzz Book for the month is The Scar Boys by Len Vlahos. The book is about, "A severely burned teenager. A guitar. Punk … Continue reading Teen Thursday
We're happy to announce the Statesman Selects pick for March is the beautiful new novel by author Michael Parker, All I Have in This World, a story that sets two strangers up over the hood of a used car in Texas and sets them on the course of a different kind of love story. Pick up the Statesman this … Continue reading Statesman Selects: ALL I HAVE IN THIS WORLD
~ BEN The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone, Michael Smollin "This book is something else. I'm almost done, but Grover has built a brick wall to keep me from finishing. He's gone chicken on me because there's supposed to be a monster at the end of the book. I mean, … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
HARDCOVER FICTION Stone Cold by C. J. Box Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is about a mysterious man living on a massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming, but he discovers a lot more than … Continue reading New Releases – 3/11/14
George Saunders, veritable King of the Short Story at this point, has gone ahead and won yet another thing, this time in England. Moments ago, Saunders was announced the winner of the inaugural Folio Prize for his can't-beat-it-don't-even-try collection, Tenth of December (published by Bloomsbury Books over in the UK; Random House here in the US). From … Continue reading George Saunders Wins The Folio Prize
(photo via ASF's blog, credit Vicky Topaz) Y'all, AMY HEMPEL is judging this year's American Short Fiction Short Story Contest! That is a Big Deal. If you haven't read Hempel's short fiction before, get ye a copy of her Collected Stories. Seriously, right now, get this book. And then after you've read everything she's published, if you're … Continue reading Amy Hempel to Judge American Short Fiction Contest
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