February 2012
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All these cookbooks are making me hungry!
One thing I love about working in my neighborhood independent bookshop is discovering new books - both exciting new releases and hidden gems from the past. My biggest downfall is cookbooks. I love to read cookbooks like everyone else reads novels. Cookbooks are like picture books for grown-ups. Today I walked to the back of the shop to replace a cookbook and got drawn in for a few minutes to...
January 2012
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Interview with Alexis M. Smith author of...
Join Sam on The Avid Reader as he interviews Alexis M. Smith, author of Glaciers, tomorrow, January 30 at 4:00pm
Glaciers
Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier...
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Meet the Author - January 28 from 11am - 1pm
Special Invitation to a Book Signing
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 11:00 am ~ 1:00 pm
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be first among equals in a tight job market? Are you pondering what you need to do to get the next promotion, or whether you should even stay at your current job?
The answers to questions like these may be simpler than you think once you understand your power...
July 2011
3 posts
Sam Hankin: The Renaissance man for the literary,... →
Meet the Author: Michael Sims
On Thursday, July 28th from 7:00-9:00PM, Michael Sims signs The Story of Charlotte’s Web, a biography of E. B. White featured on NPR and USA Today. Listen to the Avid Reader Show interview with Michael Sims at this link. Kids! Bring us a drawing or a story about Charlotte’s Web anytime this summer and receive a special prize!
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June 2011
3 posts
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction…. It requires us...”
– David Ulin (via og-blay)
April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Tinkers by Paul Harding-- an interview
In 2010, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Tinkers, a 185-page novel that’s written almost like poetry. The heart of this story is the tragedy of an abrupt and unexplained estrangement between a father and his son. It’s an incident cautiously explored but usually avoided by the two men: father Howard, a tinker (or, as Paul Harding puts it, the humblest kind of traveling salesman) and...
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Charles Yu’s first novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe follows Protagonist Yu (P.Y.) through space and time. It’s science fiction, but, as New York Times reviewer Ander Monson put it, “Yu’s sound and fury conceal (and construct) this novel’s dense, tragic, all-too-human heart.”
Protagonist Yu can be found in Minor Universe 31, a slightly damaged world...
January 2011
4 posts
Just read Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.
I was super impressed; strongly recommend a read. It’s a little bit weird at some points. It’s about a 15-year-old boy who runs away from home and spends his days reading and working in the library until the police come after him in conjunction with his father’s murder. Oh, and there’s this guy who can talk to cats...
December 2010
5 posts
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
crashinglybeautiful:
I find this very, very funny. From libraryland & snapesgrudge
“The fastest way I can explain it is that there is this brilliant neuroscientist named V. S. Ramachandran, who wrote a book called Phantoms in the Brain. He was very interested in people with phantom-limb pain, and he had one patient who had lost his hand from the wrist down, but the guy’s sensation was not only that the hand was still there, but that it was in a painful fist that kept...
November 2010
3 posts
Wellington Square Books on the Radio!
We’re excited to announce that bookstore founder Sam is now the host of WCHE’s newest radio show, The Avid Reader. You’ll hear all about our newest books and the fascinating world of rare and antiquarian books. Sam will also be interviewing some of our favorite authors, including Jen Bryant and Paul Harding.
If you live around West Chester, PA you can find us on the radio on...
October 2010
5 posts
“What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?”
– The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (via readhard)
September 2010
12 posts
Rollo Learning to Read
When Rollo was five years young, his father said to him one evening:
“Rollo, put away your roller skates and bicycle, carry that rowing machine out into the hall, and come to me. It is time for you to learn to read.”
Then Rollo’s father opened the book which he had sent home on a truck and talked to the little boy about it.
from Chimes From A Jester’s Bells by Robert J....
August 2010
12 posts
“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m...”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
We’re reading The Book Thief for our September book club. Join us Wednesday, SEptember 15th at 2 or Thursday, September 16th at 7 to join in the discussion!
Cup of coffee on the house.
I love the mom and two kids who come in to look at...
What’s that?
A bird tarantula.
What are those?
Spiders.
What’s that?
A house fly.
What’s that?
A praying mantis?
What’s that?
the same thing.
What are those?
That’s a centipede and a millipede.
What’s that?
A burrowing centipede.
What’s that?
A tropical millipede.
