The Scandalous Book Club meets on Sunday, July 11th at 3:00 p.m. to discuss Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Penguin, 2008, 400 pp., pbk., new $14.00; sale $12.60), D. H. Lawrence’s lyrical and erotic tale of a young married woman whose upper-class husband has been rendered impotent, and whose sexual frustration leads to her affair with the gamekeeper.
One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928. The unexpurgated edition did not appear in America until 1959, after one of the most spectacular legal battles in publishing history.
With her soft brown hair, lithe figure and big, wondering eyes, Constance Chatterley is possessed of a certain vitality. Yet she is deeply unhappy; married to an invalid, she is almost as inwardly paralyzed as her husband Clifford is paralyzed below the waist. It is not until she finds refuge in the arms of Mellors the game-keeper, a solitary man of a class apart, that she feels regenerated. Together they move from an outer world of chaos towards an inner world of fulfillment.
The Spiritual Book Club meets Thursday, June 10th at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the phenomenal bestseller The Shack (Windblown Media , 2007, 256 pp., pbk, reg. $14.99; sale $13.49) by William P. Young, which has been praised by both Christians and non-Christians.
Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, ostensibly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever and quite possibly your own.
In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?”
Join Cristina Bellard for the next Children’s Signing Storytime at Bound To Be Read Books on Saturday, May 1st at 11:00 a.m.
Cristina Bellard is a local Baby Signs® Instructor, and our presenter for Children’s Signing Storytime on Saturday, May 1st, at 11AM. No reservations are needed–just drop in!
The Baby Signs® Program teaches all babies (birth-3 yrs.) to use simple, easy-to-do gestures for communicating with their parents and caregivers. After 20 years of careful study, researchers proved that using signs actually enhances language, cognitive, and social-emotional development in children.
Our in-store writing group is open to writers of all types. We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 P.M. to read our work and to give and receive feedback. Our next meeting is May 6th.
It’s easy to participate! Just bring five (5) copies of your poem, short story, essay, novel, screenplay, play, children’s story, or other written work to share. We’ll read and offer constructive comments on everyone’s work.
Bound To Be Read Books concludes its National Poetry Month Celebration with Jef Blocker reading “Hungry Heart.” Thank you to all the poets, writers, customers, and friends who gave of their time and talent for this project. For more information, please visit BoundToBeReadBooks.com.
Bound To Be Read Books continues its National Poetry Month Celebration with Jeff McCord reading an original poem entitled “Chucho Plays.” Check back every day in April 2010 for a new video of a local author, poet, customer, or staff member reading a poem. For more information, please visit BoundToBeReadBooks.com.
Bound To Be Read Books continues its National Poetry Month Celebration with Jill-of-all-Trades Jill Fink sharing her kitty haiku. Check back every day in April 2010 for a new video of a local author, poet, customer, or staff member reading a poem. For more information, please visit BoundToBeReadBooks.com.
National Book Award Finalist Deborah Wiles signs the first copy of her new book, “Countdown,” which she presented to Jeff McCord and Jef Blocker of Bound To Be Read Books. “Countdown” is the first book in Wiles’ ’60s triology, and takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The images and newspaper articles featured in the book give the reader a sense of what it felt like to live during that time period. “Countdown” is available on May 1, 2010.
Bound To Be Read Books continues its National Poetry Month Celebration with author Deborah Wiles reading “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae, which is included in her new book, “Countdown.” Check back every day in April 2010 for a new video of a local author, poet, customer, or staff member reading a poem. For more information, please visit BoundToBeReadBooks.com.
Bound To Be Read Books continues its National Poetry Month Celebration with author, humorist, and blogger Hollis Gillespie reading “Valentine’s Day” and “If You Were Me” by her daughter, May. Check back every day in April 2010 for a new video of a local author, poet, customer, or staff member reading a poem. For more information, please visit BoundToBeReadBooks.com.
The Spiritual Book Club meets Thursday, June 10th at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the phenomenal bestseller The Shack (Windblown Media , 2007, 256 pp., pbk, reg. $14.99; sale $13.49) by William P. Young, which has been praised by both Christians and non-Christians.
oin Cristina Bellard for the next Children’s Signing Storytime at Bound To Be Read Books on Saturday, May 1st at 11:00 a.m.
Our in-store writing group is open to writers of all types. We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 P.M. to read our work and to give and receive feedback. Our next meeting is May 6th.