Book & Information 13 Mar 2007 08:38 pm
Summer Book Signings
More personal information. I work at the FABULOUS, SUPREME, AMAZING, Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith New Hampshire. A jewel among bookshops, let me assure you. We are part of the Mill Falls Marketplace and if you click on Innisfree Bookshop on that list (alphabetical…) you can see my shop! I personally worked there in high school and college and am now a Full-time member of the Innisfree Team. 
Now onto the JUICY stuff. The booksignings. (I began running these events last year, actually using it as my internship for my Senior Internship class for college.) This is my second year and it should be even better than ever!!! So far we just have two fabulous ladies reserved. But oh the fabulousness!!!
Barbara Delinsky will be at the shop on Saturday July 7th from 2:00-4:00 pm. She always draws a large crowd, but seriously, NICEST lady there ever was. Tanya on staff and I had gone hiking last summer and who did we see? Thats right, Barbara. The Joy of a small town. Barbara’s new book is Family Tree. From her website,
When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil….Family Tree delves into issues of trust, honesty, privilege, and identity. It debates the way we define ourselves, and explores the duplicity of political correctness and personal prejudice.
Later on in July, Jodi Picoult will be joining us on Wednesday July 25th from 1:00-3:00 pm. This is a change from our regular Saturday from 2:00-4:00 setup, but that was the only time she was available, so presto!
A Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED review,
Bestseller Picoult takes on another contemporary hot-button issue in her brilliantly told new thriller…the author’s insights into her characters’ deep-seated emotions brings this ripped-from-the-headlines read chillingly alive.â€
And a description from her website,
In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling’s residents.
Rich with psychological and social insight, Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thought-provoking novel that has at its center a haunting question. Do we ever really know someone?
There has been some debate over this book. The fictional town of Sterling New Hampshire is incredibly similar to Hanover, where Jodi lives. Not surprising… but because the town and the high school are so similar to the real town and the real high school, even though the events in the novel have never happened in real life, Hanover High School has decided to remove Nineteen Minutes from its required reading list. This does not mean the book is banned. There was a class where Nineteen Minutes was going to be required for all students to read. They just knocked it down to voluntary. The students (about half of which decided to read the book regardless of required versus not) were allowed early editions to study as part of a class.
My favorite quote, from an associated press article, here at the The copycateffect.blogspot.com,
Picoult said in one class, Nineteen Minutes was being taught alongside James Dickey’s Deliverance, which depicts sodomy and violence, Vladimir Nabokov’s child-sex novel Lolita, and Anthony Burgess’ violent The Clockwork Orange.
“I don’t know really what makes ‘Lolita’ any less disturbing than Nineteen Minutes, †she said. – - Beverley Wang, reporter, The Associated Press
These are the two authors that are so far confirmed, but I shall update as more choose their day!
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