Friday, May 25, 2007
Things are progressing with our plans for our Harry Potter Party. Our ideal is to have a giant block party on our block of Castro between 24th and Jersey, stay open until midnight and have as many merchants as we can stay open and participate with us. We're hoping to decorate the store fronts to make our block look like a piece of Diagon Alley! I'm waiting to hear from some folks in charge, but I think it looks positive right now. We'll let everyone know when we have the final word.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Okay, a friend of my sister was having a really fun contest on her blog, so I've stolen the idea outright and now we're all playing at the store. The trick is to change only one letter in an existing title and change the whole meaning. My favorite that I read had been "Go Kill a Mockingbird" and my sister came up with the delicious "Jeezus and Ramona." Here are Davi's entries, you really ought to sit down to read these!
"Sold Comfort Farm" - our favorite Geisha goes rural...
"A Million Little Nieces"
"F Pioneers!" - who needs 'em anyway?
"Baked Lunch" - William S. Burroughs approaches his chicken through an LSD fog...
"Yonder Boys", Michael Chabon's guide to getting them the hell off your lawn if you're over 70
"Extremely Loud Ant Incredibly Close" - comic hijinks ensue as our favorite six-legged creature finds his way into a hearing aid
"Something Wicker This Way Comes" - a boy with ADD turns to basket-weaving to avoid the everyday horrors of elementary school boredom
"Lonesome Rove" - ain't no lovin' for a political mastermind
"A Thousand Aches" - Jane Smiley's critically-acclaimed "hard-knuckle" account of rheumatoid arthritis
"She Firm" - John Grisham harrowing account of an all-female group of lawyers trying to cut it in a male-dominated society
"Black Scallion" - the dark side of the onion
"China Goy", sequel to "Egg Jew Young"
"White Boise" - Don DeLillo's striking tale of Idaho's tragic gentrification
"My Friend Leotard" - sufficiently debunked as a charlatan, James Frey turns to the world of ballet
"Still Wife With Woodpecker" - scathing expose of Woody's marriage
"Hmong the Hidden" - the spirit hides and you look around
"Sold Comfort Farm" - our favorite Geisha goes rural...
"A Million Little Nieces"
"F Pioneers!" - who needs 'em anyway?
"Baked Lunch" - William S. Burroughs approaches his chicken through an LSD fog...
"Yonder Boys", Michael Chabon's guide to getting them the hell off your lawn if you're over 70
"Extremely Loud Ant Incredibly Close" - comic hijinks ensue as our favorite six-legged creature finds his way into a hearing aid
"Something Wicker This Way Comes" - a boy with ADD turns to basket-weaving to avoid the everyday horrors of elementary school boredom
"Lonesome Rove" - ain't no lovin' for a political mastermind
"A Thousand Aches" - Jane Smiley's critically-acclaimed "hard-knuckle" account of rheumatoid arthritis
"She Firm" - John Grisham harrowing account of an all-female group of lawyers trying to cut it in a male-dominated society
"Black Scallion" - the dark side of the onion
"China Goy", sequel to "Egg Jew Young"
"White Boise" - Don DeLillo's striking tale of Idaho's tragic gentrification
"My Friend Leotard" - sufficiently debunked as a charlatan, James Frey turns to the world of ballet
"Still Wife With Woodpecker" - scathing expose of Woody's marriage
"Hmong the Hidden" - the spirit hides and you look around
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Welcome Back Potter
Greetings from the Cover to Cover crew!
Let's get straight to business. The seventh and final Harry Potter book will be released at midnight on July 21, and we are now taking pre-orders. The hardcover book will be sold at regular price: $34.95. I know I know, it's steep - but that's what the publishers have set it at, so we think it's our responsibility to offer you more than just the book when it comes time to lay down your cash. On the night of its release, we're throwing an enormous Harry Potter bash, right here at the store and possibly sprawling down the block. There will be refreshments and entertainment, and best of all, hundreds of other rabid Potter fans to debate the mysteries that await us all in this last installment. Everybody's coming out for the grand finale!
Apart from all that, we have a couple author events coming up at the store. Head on over to the website for details.
Also, it's been a great month for new fiction releases. Don DeLillo, Haruki Murakami, Michael Chabon, Donna Leon, Roberto Bolano and Nathan Englander all have new novels out. We've got 'em, of course, and a lot more... Exciting times!
We hope to see everybody soon.
Let's get straight to business. The seventh and final Harry Potter book will be released at midnight on July 21, and we are now taking pre-orders. The hardcover book will be sold at regular price: $34.95. I know I know, it's steep - but that's what the publishers have set it at, so we think it's our responsibility to offer you more than just the book when it comes time to lay down your cash. On the night of its release, we're throwing an enormous Harry Potter bash, right here at the store and possibly sprawling down the block. There will be refreshments and entertainment, and best of all, hundreds of other rabid Potter fans to debate the mysteries that await us all in this last installment. Everybody's coming out for the grand finale!
Apart from all that, we have a couple author events coming up at the store. Head on over to the website for details.
Also, it's been a great month for new fiction releases. Don DeLillo, Haruki Murakami, Michael Chabon, Donna Leon, Roberto Bolano and Nathan Englander all have new novels out. We've got 'em, of course, and a lot more... Exciting times!
We hope to see everybody soon.
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