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I just lived through three days with no glasses!  I dropeed them in Lake Pawtuckaway while cavorting with little kids.  What a headache-- both literally and figuratively.  I can see well enough to get around the house and do basic tasks, but my eyes were tired and red and everything was blurry;  reading was definitely out.   What's summer without reading?!  The whole incident made me recognize how lucky we are to be able to read and appreciate life through the written word.  When I got my new glasses yesterday I was so happy I wanted to throw a baby up in the air! read more

A lot of you have mentioned how cool it would be if we could record our events, so people who couldn't make it get a chance to watch it afterwards. We recently filmed Alice Hoffman. Alice was here in June, and as you can tell from the footage, we had a lot of people in the store to hear the bestselling author!

Click here to see the first video. We'll be posting more of the talk, so check back.

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Do you ever love a book so much that you just really can not stop talking about it? That's how I feel about Tinkers by Paul Harding.  I've talked about him on my personal blog.  I've written a review of the book for The Quarterly Conversation. I've also interviewed him for the July issue of one of my absolutely favorite online literary journals, Bookslut. 

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Zeke called to ask if I was kidding about reading Henry James-- trying to raise my street cred as a serious reader.  I said I was serious, so now I'm trapped into actually reading some.  The good news is Zeke's going to read Washington Square along with me, so I'll have someone to talk with about it.  Feel free to join us.  Or, read some other classic this summer--your brain deserves it! read more