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| >>this week in booksmith |
I'm writing this on Saturday afternoon, and it feels like fall out there, hopefully it's warmed up by the time this goes out. Looking forward to Ellis Avery's reading on Tuesday night at 7, where she'll be offering up a traditional Japanese tea ceremony to the lucky folks. I could use a cup right now to wrap my hands around.
Speaking of traditions, I'm not sure that Mameve Medwed's new novel has anything to do with Cinco de Mayo, but we have encouraged her to shout Viva Mexico! at the end of her reading tonight (also at 7,) as tradition would dictate, if we were in Mexico.
No, I'm lying. Please don't shout Viva Mexico tonight, expecting our good friend Mameve to join in.
If you think we're taking the rest of the week off, check out this lineup: Alice Hoffman, Chris Bohjalian and Elizabeth George. Details below, no tickets necessary.
Mothers, mothers, mothers. I'm a father now, and now Mother's Day has taken on a whole new meaning. It means something like "ignore at your own peril." While the Booksmith can't serve up breakfast in bed and a foot massage, we've certainly got something for your moms, who nevertheless deserve soooo much more.
Come on in to the store and you'll stumble right into the display up front overflowing with gift ideas, and if nothing knocks you out check out the Card & Gift room for a thousand more. Or just grab one of us, that's what we're here for!
Any questions so far? Good, let's move on.
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| >>books of the week |
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I won't lie to you all and say that this is the last time I'll push Out Stealing Horses on you. Someday the hardcover will undoubtedly show up on the remainders tables, and then I'll give it one more go. But don't wait for that. This book is on my mind even to this day, a solid year after it came to stay with me. This is one of the best books I've ever read, and the story's last sentence is one to steer your life by.
John Perkins, dedicated to awakening sociopolitical consciousness, jumps into the muck of American Empire as it exists in every pocket of the world, offering the guidance and practical inspiration from which every one of us can draw to make our little corner a little better. |
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| kids books of the week |
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Suzy Lee's Wave will make any kid who's been to the beach grin with recognition. This is a wordless, splashy book filled with both the playful and the dangerous nature of the ocean, and even though I'm a deep woods guy at heart, Lee's rushing, curling waves make me yearn for the sand between my toes.
One of the best things about being a parent and a book-lover is that I get to revisit all the books that so enchanted me as a child. Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm is one of those books that succeeds with the first impression, grabbing a kid's attention with the strong, friendly illustrations, and rewards him or her with every new visit, for many years to come. The wry wit in describing these wonderful animals will likewise appeal to parents reading the books alongside. Check it out on our Staff Recommends this month! |
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial
Pbk, $14.95
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A Wolf at the Table
Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's Press
Hardcover, $24.95
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Little Heathens
Mildred A. Kalish
Bantam
Paperback, $12.00
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Dreaming Up America
Russell Banks
Seven Stories Press
Hardcover, $21.95 |
A Voyage Long
and Strange
Tony Horwitz
Henry Holt & Co.
Hardcover, $27.50
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Check out our booksellers' Essential Reads!
These are the books that our booksellers deem necessary for the support of life on this planet. Let our bookshelves be your guide! |
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| >>remain(der)s of the day |
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Follies: New Stories
Ann Beattie
Scribner, Paperback
Orig. Price $14, Sale Price $3.99 |
The Coldest Winter
David Halberstam
Hyperion, Hardcover
Orig. Price $35, Sale Price $11.99 |
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Ann Beattie, short story master, puts her experienced pen to work in the service of stories for the baby-boomers. The complexities of being a modern parent, child, sibling, and professional are distilled in this highly lauded eighth collection. Beattie just gets better and better.
Fellow bookseller Russ is lucky enough to have gotten a glimpse at Philip Roth's upcoming novel of a man escaping the draft of the Korean War and finding his own conflict in the Midwest. It prompted him to recommend David Halberstam's majestic study of that war, a book that is somewhat of a prequel to The Best and the Brightest. Halberstam's final work may just be his own best and brightest.
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| Remainders are clearance books which we sell for bargain prices. We have several tables of remainders at the front of the store, on which we offer some of your favorite authors at up to 75% off the cover price. Quantities are limited, so if something strikes your fancy don't delay! |
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| >>down in the ubc |
For an intensive UBC experience please click here.
Carl's musings and recommendations are now on the Used Cellar Blog. |
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Krazy & Ignatz
Ged Herriman
Fantagraphics, Paperback
Six Volumes, Sale Price var. $8.50-$10.50 |
Brookline: Images of America
Greer Hardwicke and Roger Reed
Arcadia Publishers, Paperback
Orig. Price $19.99, Sale Price $9.50 |
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Someone unloaded a pile of Krazy & Ignatz collections in the UBC, covering the years 1925-1930 and 1935-1940. Herriman's seminal brick-tossing comic characters going for cheap.
Arcadia Publishers randomly takes the Brookline edition of their wonderful Images of America series in and out of print, and at the moment the sepia toned well has run dry. Used Book Cellar to the rescue! For those who'd like to see Coolidge Corner with wagon ruts instead of double parking, call 617-566-6660 and secure this single copy for your coffee table. |
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These and other treasures can be found in the Used Book Cellar in the basement of booksmith. We buy back your used paperback fiction and non-fiction Wednesdays through Saturdays from 10-4. [ubc@brooklinebooksmith.com]
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the UBC find of the week |
How sad that lunch with your aunt & uncle is schmoozing...
Pixie Sticks in the bathroom...I remember those sorts of parties.
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| To see everything else we've found in the UBC, visit the find archive. |
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Here's a typical note to a typical mom, right? Boy, these beautiful pens write 'like buttah', so why not pair them with a journal or matching stationary, to encourage your mom to send along her love from time to time?
They also write well on checks.
Brass Roller Ball Pen - $12.95
Embossed Tapestry Journal - $7.99
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>>>around town
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 Tickets for the Brookline Music School's concert of The Beatle's White Album are now on sale here at the store. The concert will be at Northeastern University's Blackman Theatre this weekend on May 10th @ 7:30pm and May 11th @ 2pm, $15 General Admission, $25 Preferred Seating. For more information, call 617.277.4593 ext. 233, or email tickets@bmsmusic.org.
Annie Barrows, author of the wildly popular Ivy & Bean series for young readers, will be appearing at the Main Branch of the Brookline Public Library, courtesy of both the Library and our independent friends in Brookline Village, the Children's Book Shop. That's next Monday, May 12th at 3pm in Hunneman Hall, bring your parents along!
An early heads up for an exciting evening sponsored by Brookline Adult Education! Beloved actor and activist Debra Winger will engage in an in-person interview with poet and Rumi translator Coleman Barks, as well as give readings from her soon to be published book, Undiscovered. That's Thursday, June 26 at 7pm at the Brookline High School auditorium, click here to register for this event. |
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| ...and therefore |
Learn to read while you walk, that's my advice. The trick is to flick your eyes off the page to glimpse the terrain ahead. The hard part is flicking back, and finding the line you were just reading, but it will come with practice. If you see a guy walking from the #39 bus stop, across Route 9 and through Brookline Village up Harvard to Coolidge Corner, just watch close and you'll get the idea. Those are the paces where I've read most of a brilliant Tobias Wolff novel over the past week.
Thanks for reading,
Paul
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currently reading Old School by Tobias Wolff.
currently listening to this song. |
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