So I went downstairs the other day. Yes, Virginia, there is a downstairs! And, whoa, I was kind of blown away (not an easy trick for a creature who spends his time in wind). I have long known and often taken advantage of River City Books’ bargain basement, finding great books for cheap-cheap-cheap. It [...]
Archive for November, 2008
National Book Award Winners Named
November 22, 2008In case you missed it, I’m here (as always, right?) to let you know that the National Book Award winners have been announced:
Fiction: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (Modern Library)
Nonfiction: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed, (Norton)
Young people’s literature: What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell (Scholastic)
Poetry: Fire [...]
The Joint Was Booked
November 21, 2008I stopped by River City Books last night and found there wasn’t a spare seat to be found, as popular novelist Lorna Landvik discussed her new holiday book and her latest paperback release. Readers packed into RCB’s cozy downstairs meeting area to listen to Landvik, who read from both books, and pick up signed, discounted [...]
Greetings, Cards
November 15, 2008I was down at the old neighborhood bookstore last night and I saw something that really got me goosed, er, um, jazzed (I’m nothing if not sensitive about bird biased language). River City Books now has a bigger-better selection of greeting cards.
There are Christmas, Chanukah, birthday, anniversary, blanks (I like the blanks!), and on down [...]
Northfield Reads! Celebrates Mom
November 12, 2008Mom. She’s underappreciated, wouldn’t you say? I know mine is. Oh, the stuff she had to put up with from … my siblings. OK, maybe from me, too. Once or twice.
Well, there’s a great book out that celebrates Mom — Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers — and Northfielders have the chance to hear from [...]



