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March 26 at Ravenna
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March 27 at Seward Park
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March 28 at Seward Park
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March 28 at Ravenna
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Ally Condie - The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe (In Conversation with Brendan Reichs and Margaret Stohl)
March 28 at Lake Forest Park
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March 29 at Lake Forest Park
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March 30 at Lake Forest Park
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March 31 at Lake Forest Park
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March 31 at Seward Park
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April 1 at Ravenna
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April 2 at Lake Forest Park
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April 2 at Ravenna
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Want some tips for what to read next? Find one of us whose tastes match yours, or explore new horizons with something you might never have picked up on your own. If you are store-side, come talk to us and experience our enthusiasm firsthand.
From the secret history of a hallucinogenic sound file to pornographic sitcoms, direct-sales pyramid schemes and Mirror Facebook, this inventive, experimental collection explores the impact of technology, media and capitalism on how we think and feel, while demonstrating that Jillian Tamaki is one of the greatest comics artists working today.
Growing up in the Sixties and Seventies off-the-grid, I learned to milk a cow, bake bread, fill and clean kerosene lamps, sew and mend clothes, and knit. I worked painting houses, doing construction, and gardening. In place of pay, I experienced a deep sense of satisfaction in doing a good job just for the love of it. In Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford explains why this kind of doing and making brings such satisfaction, how our inherent need for meaningful work has been manufactured out of (most of) our daily lives, and what we can do about it. Sure, the book came out almost 10 years ago, but the concepts are timeless. Give it a read!
I know what you need: cannibalistic children, a possessed daughter, a shady pharmacological conglomerate, some creepy android dolls, freak weather related events and the Swiss (the people, not the cheese). Good thing Moto Hagio’s Otherworld Barbara has all these unique features or else you’d be stuck reading 2-3 different western horror stories and watching an M. Night Shyamalan movie to boot.
In Otherworld Barbara, follow Watarai, our young George Michael doppelganger and who serves as our requisite straight man...as you enter with him into a rich family’s possessed daughter’s dream construct, a simple but pleasant enough rural island populated by what initially seems to be just some regular village folk. The kids here are alright too...except they can float around and people have some strange xenophobia towards outsiders.
But when the Island of Baraba starts cropping up in Watari’s real outside life in seemingly random ways he suspects it’s more than just serendipity...
Take your metaphorical corn chip and dip into layer after layer of storytelling so rich I am getting indigestion just thinking about it. With some throwbacks to Inception or Pan’s Labyrinth and enough dissociative females to shake a Murakami novel at, Otherworld Barbara doesn’t disappoint.
Recommendation: find a hermetically sealed container to store your disbelief while you read
