Thursday, July 2nd
Writing Group
7:00 P.M.
Our in-store writing group is open to writers of all types. We meet on the first Thursday of each month to read our work and to give and receive feedback.

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.

For more information, contact us at (404) 522-0877 or jef@boundtobereadbooks.com.

Saturday, July 4th
Independence Day
Closed
We'll be closed for the holiday. (Kona wants to shoot off fireworks.) However, we'll be open again on Sunday, July 5th from 1:00-6:00 P.M. Have a safe holiday!

Tuesday, July 7th
East Atlanta Village (EAV) Knitters
6:30-8:00 P.M.
Whether you have been knitting or crocheting for years, or you just learned to purl, EAV Knitters invites you to join them. Bring a project, a friend, and ideas to share. The knitting circle meets on the first Tuesday of the month in the Luxe Lounge.

For more information, contact Julie Walter at (404) 614-3717, or email her at julieabuff@yahoo.com.

Thursday, July 16th
Decatur Book Festival Presents the Book Club Bash
7:00 P.M.
You love coming to the Decatur Book Festival to meet your favorite authors, but did you know the DBF is planning events for book clubs all year round? And YOUR club is invited!

Please join us for the DBF Book Club Bash, a gathering of book clubs from throughout metro Atlanta. Hundreds of members will come together for a fun, relaxed evening of wine, munchies, presentations on how to improve your club, and a panel of Emily Giffin, Joshilyn Jackson, and Susan White!

Oh yeah, and it's FREE, thanks to our generous sponsors. The details:

Marcus Jewish Community Center,
Zaban Park
5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody

Please visit www.DecaturBookFestival.com to register your book club for this can't-miss event (and to make sure we have enough wine)!

Even if your club cannot attend the Book Club Bash, we encourage you to tell us about your group so we can contact you about opportunities for meet-and-greets with your favorite authors, exclusive book club offers, and special ways your club can participate in this year's Decatur Book Festival!

For more information, contact me Daren Wang at daren@decaturbookfestival.com or 404-759-1615.

Thursday, July 16th
Book Club
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
7:00 P.M.
The book club selection for June is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Dial Press, 2009, 304 pp., pbk., reg. $14.00; sale $11.20) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

The book club selection for July is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Dial Press, 2009, 304 pp., pbk.) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.

"I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one, a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work of fiction...Treat yourself to this book please--I can't recommend it highly enough."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

The book club meets on the third Thursday of every month at 7:00 P.M. No membership is required, and you save 20% on book club selections! This is a free event open to all. Come join us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, July 23rd
Inside the Writers' Studio with Jessica Handler
7:00 P.M.
Invisible Sisters is Handler's powerful tale of coming of age as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to Atlanta to participate in the social-justice movement of the 1960s; as a healthy sister living in the shadow of her siblings' illnesses; as a daughter in a family torn apart by impossible circumstances and overwhelming grief; and as a young woman struggling to find and redefine herself anew after her sisters' deaths. Invisible Sisters is a stirring and evocative chronicle of love and loss--not just to survive a family tragedy, but to build a new life in the aftermath.

Jessica Handler's nonfiction has appeared in Brevity.com, More Magazine, Southern Arts Journal, and Ars Medica. An essay derived from Invisible Sisters was nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize, and her work has received Honorable Mention for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Prize. A teacher of creative writing, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sunday, July 26th
Free Screening of MHZ (Megahertz) by Jordan Grayne
6:00 P.M.
B98.5 radio personality Jordan Graye will screen and discuss her film on inventor Nikola Tesla, MHz (Megahertz).

The idea came to Graye when she discovered that Tesla was cheated out of his patent for radio when the U.S. Patent Office reversed its original decision in 1904 and awarded Guglielmo Marconi. As she read more about Tesla, Graye decided to make a movie about him, even though she had no experience. Graye wrote a script, raised the money, played one of the leads in her movie, and edited her film.

The story centers around Brigh Montgomery, a self-destructive radio D.J. who, after an accidental overdose, finds herself in the afterlife with Tesla. The only way that either of them can move on is to face the unpleasant memories of their lives. Although they get off to a rocky start, they befriend and help each other make their breakthroughs.

Sunday, September 13th
Scandalous Book Club
3:00 P.M.
Bound To Be Read Books continues its Scandalous Book Club with the classic Lolita (Vintage, 1989, 336 pp., pbk, reg. $13.95; sale $11.16) by Vladimimr Nabokov. Included in Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923-2005, Lolita was rejected four times, published in France in 1955, banned in the UK, then banned in France, and finally published in the US in 1958, where it sold 100,000 copies in three weeks of publication.

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

In this tragi-comedy, Nabokov dares choose a pedophile for the narrator of his novel. Morality blurs as the reader becomes charmed by Humbert's eloquence and self-deception, yet the character begs the reader to understand that he is not proud of what he's done to young Delores, and is filled with regret. Critic Robertson Davies argued that Humbert was actually the victim of Delores, stating that the crime of the novel is "not the corruption of an innocent child by a cunning adult, but the exploitation of a weak adult by a corrupt child". Read the novel for yourself and be the judge ...

The Scandalous Book Club meets quarterly to discuss the most controversial books in publishing history, contrasting their relevance at the time they were published to social values of today. We'll determine whether these books still stand the test of time, or have become nothing more than campy trash from a bygone era.

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