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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Spooky Write-Off (IPRC, @7:00pm): Halloween is coming up, and the IPRC is hosting another Write-Off. The theme is Ghost Stories–but not as you have ever experienced them before! We are giving you the theme but not the genre. In each competitive round, a new genre will be picked from a hat (ie. an ode, a movie script, how-to, obituary), and contestants will write their brains out–about ghosts, in the given genre under a time limit. Cool prizes go to the contestants who demonstrate the most versatility and originality (and the most screams!).
Moe Bowstern of Xtra Tuf and IPRC director Justin Hocking will co-host the event, and a panel of judges will award prizes for the most terror-ific writing. We can guarantee a very entertaining evening. Participation is open to anyone up for the challenge, and attendance is free and open to all!
Other Book Events Today:
Hobgoblin Puppet Show (Green Bean Books, @4:00pm): Come to a free puppet show at Green Bean Books! The show will be a Halloween hobgoblin tale that is not too scary and appropriate for kids ages 3-6 years. The talented Yvonne De Maat of Heart in Hand Preschool will perform with her one of a kind handmade puppets. Don’t miss it!
Opening Party for Chris Crites’ America (Ampersand, @6:00pm): The paintings in America are an examination of three distinct image sets that are, by and large, obsessed over within American culture. The female figure, firearms & criminals are icons of pop culture & have been widely used in advertising & entertainment. Painting on a recycled substrate (in this case brown paper bags) & drawing upon vintage photographs, Seattle artist Chris Crites re-contextualizes the notion of recycled imagery. He invites us to question whether the meaning of such images do, in fact, ever change, or whether they always remain static symbols of a culture drawn to sex, guns & crime.
Verse in Person – Poetry Readings (Northwest Library, @7:00pm): At the last reading before we take a break until January, Bill Siverly and Barbara Drake will read from their newest books of poems. This monthly program is organized by local poets Barbara LaMorticella, Robert Davies, and Mike Ferrell, who draw on their extensive contacts in the Oregon poetry community to highlight two to three poets each reading.
Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar (Reading Frenzy, @7:00pm): Join us for a reading and signing with James Marcus Bach, author of Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success.
With Secrets Of A Buccaneer-Scholar, James doesn’t seek to eliminate schools but he does want to deconstruct the belief that formal education is the only path to a great education. In his uniquely pithy and anecdotal style, James outlines the eleven elements of his self-education method and shows how every reader — simply by investing time and passion into educating themselves about the things that really interest them — can develop a method for acquiring knowledge and expertise that fits their temperaments and enhances their unique abilities and skills.
James Bach is an expert in the field of computer software testing who has taught critical thinking and software testing around the world at such places as the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He lives in Eastsound, Washington with his wife and son.
Dragons, Ghosts & Grails: A Young Adult Halloween Reading (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:00pm): Get started on your Halloween fun with three great, local young adult authors in one night! Susan Fletcher, Laura Whitcomb and Pamela Smith Hill will each read the spookiest 13 minutes from their books and then take questions from the audience.
Classics Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft. Join us!
Tom Cathcart & Daniel Klein (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): From the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar comes Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates (Viking), a look at what the Deep Thinkers have to say on the subject of death.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week, please check the list.
