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The Booksmith in Brookline, MA just emailed me their latest events newsletter. Here are some abridged highlights from the full email:

B-Mail Weekend Update Roundup
February 26, 2005

Hey, you all~
Are you in the throes of the deep winter doldrums? So'm I. Well, one good sign that it's almost over is that Spring training has begun! Seems the boys of summer are hitting the literary fields, too. Anne found this tidbit: "Moments after saying he didn't write JUICED to make a quick buck, Jose Canseco said he planned to address the book's claims by taking a lie-detector test for a pay-per-view TV event." Guess that's what happens when you no longer play for the World Champ Boston Red Sox, hm? Good luck, Pedro! So, what to do, what to do...aside from just hibernating? Get out and come to an event! It'll do you a world of good.

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selected events:

Wednesday, March 9, 2005 7:00 PM
The Wellesley Free Library
CURTIS SITTENFELD - Prep
Come meet captivating author Curtis Sittenfeld, whose debut novel PREP is flying off the shelves to rave reviews. Set in an elite New England boarding school, PREP tells the story of awkward Midwesterner Lee Fiora in a voice reviewers liken to Salinger’s Holden Caulfield. Succumb to peer pressure! Gather with the rest of us to find out just WHO Curtis Sittenfeld is and how she wrote this funny, wise book on adolescence angst.

Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:00 PM
The Brookline Booksmith Writers and Readers Room
MARY MCGARRY MORRIS – The Lost Mother
Mary McGarry Morris astounds us again with her sixth novel. The Lost Mother is a riveting chronicle of a family coping with maternal abandonment in Depression era rural Vermont. With acclaimed novels like Vanished and Songs in Ordinary Time under her biblio-belt, Mary has been compared with John Steinbeck and Carson McCullers and widely praised as "a superb storyteller" (The Washington Post) and "one of our finest American writers" (The Miami Herald).

DID YOU KNOW THAT WE ALSO SELL BOOKS AT EVENTS OUTSIDE THE STORE?
If you're planning on having an author visit your club or group and need someone to sell books, give us a call!

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THIS JUST IN by bookseller (and playwright) Dan...

Dan regrets to say, due to other ardors of bookselling, he is unable to write about any new books this week. However, if you happen to be in Coolidge Corner, and aren’t offended by baldness, stop in and ask him to tell you about the pulse-stopping thriller EXIT STRATEGY ($6.99) by local boy Michael Wiecek (author event April 6, 7 PM), or about Owen Gingerich’s THE BOOK NOBODY READ ($15), a fascinating work that explores whether or not anyone read the book in which Copernicus revealed the Earth revolved around the Sun. Dan would also be game and able to discuss READING WITH OPRAH ($24.95), Kathleen Rooney’s superb examination of the Oprah Book Club (author event March 16, 7 PM), and TILTING AT WINDMILLS ($23) by Julian Branston, a hilarious novel about Cervantes and high-jinx to match his famous character’s windmill incident.

But again, Dan is very sorry he wasn’t able to write about any of those books.

(See?? Everyone's in the winter doldrums! All we can do is wallow in them with a sense of humor and help each other out. C)

Ann Clinton Cavanaugh, Editor
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA 02446

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