05/14
******Contains a small spoiler from Season Three of True Blood******* *****Contains some spoilers from All Together Dead********** I was very excited that this week I got to go see a Q and A with one of my favorite authors, Charlaine Harris. As you might already know, she is the author of the Sookie Stackhouse books [...]
Tags: all together dead, bagdad theatre, Bill, book reading, charlaine harris, dead in the family, dead to the world, Eric, hbo, photos, powells, season three, season three spoilers, sookie stackhouse, spoilers, stephanie meyer, true blood, twilight, vampire
05/05
Sorry this post is up so late. This last week I got to go see PC and Kirstin Cast, authors of the House of Night series at Powells in Portland. First off, they are so funny. It is awesome seeing a mother and daughter work together. PC writes the story first then Kirstin edits. PC [...]
Tags: burned, cedar hills, house of night, kirstin cast, pc cast, portland, powells, vampires, zoey redbird
02/04
Last week I was lucky enough to see a reading with Audrey Niffenegger of her newest novel Her Fearful Symmetry. Afterwords she answered questions from people. I meant to do a little write up about it last week but as things seem to be going this year, I just now got time. First, [...]
Tags: audrey niffenegger, author, book reading, books, her fearful symmetry, powells, the time travelers wife, writers
08/13
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090813/ap_on_re_us/us_college_textbook_rentals Finally something that sounds like a win-win for students and publishers alike. An company is going to start providing textbooks for rent to college students at huge discounts. Obviously this is great for students. Speaking from my own experience, textbook can run close to or over $100 on average. I’m referring mostly [...]
Tags: book news, college, powells, rent, textbooks