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Bound To Be
Read Books features good quality used and new books in a wide variety
of categories. We also carry rare and collectible books, used audio
books and new and used music CD’s – all at very affordable
prices.
Whether
you’re looking for best-selling popular fiction, science fiction,
classic literature, romance, history, arts, gay & lesbian, gender
studies, politics, pop culture, spirituality or children’s
books, we have these and many, many other categories. Our on-line
inventory will be available with a shopping cart on this website
soon. In the meantime, you can shop Bound To Be Read Books online
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are currently building our database of books in inventory as we
transition to our new computer system, so for now we’re offering
just a sampling of current in-stock titles for purchase on-line.
Please check back often as we’ll be adding new titles soon.
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Directions:
Located just 2 miles from downtown!
Take I-20 East from downtown.
Take Moreland Ave. (South),
Exit #60-A.
Turn left on McPherson (first light) and right on Flat Shoals;
OR left on Glenwood (2nd light) and left on Flat Shoals.
Easy Parking
Plenty of FREE street parking available,
as well as free lots behind the store
and across the street.
Christmas
Eve - 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Christmas Day - Closed
New Year's Eve - 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
New Year's Day - Closed
Meet Kona
The Bookstore Cat
Meet our director of public relations, Kona the Cat. A rescue kitty,
she lives at the bookstore and greets our customers – usually
with a sleepy yawn!
UPCOMING
EVENTS
September
3-5
Decatur Book Festival The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book
Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical is an annual, free book festival
that takes place over Labor Day weekend in Decatur, Georgia at several
venues located in and around the downtown Decatur Square. Conceived
in 2005 and launched in 2006, the festival brings more than 300
authors to Decatur for the holiday weekend. The authors give readings,
talks, and panel discussions. The event is free and open to the
public.
Thursday,
September 9th
Book Club 7:00 P.M. The book club selection is Shop Class as
Soulcraft (Penguin, 2010, 256 pp., pbk., reg. $15.00;
sale 13.50) by Michael B. Crawford.
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the
challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands
Called
"the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The
Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an
instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely)
reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic
and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions
the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge
worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from
doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic,
Crawford presents a wonderfully articulated call for self-reliance
and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever
more abstract world.
Sunday,
October 3rd
Scandalous Book Club 3:00 P.M. In
American Psycho, (Vintage, 1991,
416 pp., pbk., reg. $15.00; sale $13.50) Bret
Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths
of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or
any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s
Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his
fortune on Wall Street by day while sepnding his nights in ways
we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture
and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society
could bear to confront.
Vintage
published the book after Simon & Schuster withdrew due to pressure
from feminists who objected to its graphic violence and sexual content.
Is the story of Elli’s yuppie serial killer brilliant satire
of the ‘80s? Misogynistic? Transgressive art? Read it and
decide for yourself.
Bret
Easton Ellis is the author of five previous novels including,
Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American
Psycho, Glamorama, and Lunar Park, and a
collection of stories, The Informers. His works have been
translated into twenty-seven languages. Less Than Zero,
The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, and
The Informers have all been made into films. He divides
his time between Los Angeles and New York City.
Thursday,
October 7th
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 at 7:00 P.M. 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.
