Today’s Featured Book Event:

Poetry Reading & Open Mic (Star e Rose Cafe, @6:00pm): Come on down to the star e rose and bring those words you have hidden in the back of your closet, your journal you write in while sipping Chamomile. bring your heartfelt love poetry, searing social commentary, uproarious comic routines, and bittersweet personal confessional pieces. bring your rap and your haiku, your monologue and your spoken word. bring your despair and your hope your anger and your happiness bring your souls in your words and we will listen. the star e rose cafe is a safe and cozy place and we welcome all walks of life as long as you do not use words or actions that may hurt others. be respectful and be respected. we look forward to hearing you all speak! lineup: PDX majesty, Christopher Keller, Kashea Kilson-Anderson, Lindsey Morrison grant, Roxy R, Desiree Rutherford, and YOU!

Other Book Events Today:

Sandra Dorr (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Poet, editor, and writing teacher Sandra Dorr will be here to read from her latest collection of poems, Desert Water (Lithic Press). Sandra has encouraged and inspired writers for twenty-five years.  Sandra has also been an NPR commentator and has written two books on women’s health and travel. Poems in this collection won The Writer/Rosebud’s New Discovery Prize, a Salt Hill prize, and first prize in the Colorado Poetry Society’s open contest, among others. Sandra currently lives with her family in western Colorado in a house they built on the edge of canyon wilderness, where she is working on a novel.

Matt Love (Tigard Public Library, @7:00pm): In the summer of 1970, an Oregon classic was filmed in Lincoln County. For nearly three months, the cast and crew transformed Ken Kesey’s epic novel into a movie. The long-time locals are still talking about it. In fact, what went on that summer has since become a legend. Author Matt Love, who is writing a book about the filming of the movie, will offer a unique reflection on the film and what happened when the biggest star in the world came to Oregon to film one of the greatest Oregon novels of all time. The presentation will feature a slide show on the history of the film, discussion and clips from the movie.

Craig Johnson presents “Junkyard Dogs” (Murder by the Book, @7:00pm): In Craig Johnson’s Junkyard Dogs, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is down in the dumps … but only because a thumb has been found there. He discovers the owners of the dump are having a disagreement, Wyoming-style, with the developers of the land next door. When dead bodies begin to pop up, Walt and his crew must sift out the clues from the garbage to find the killer.

Oregon Literary Review presents First Wednesdays (Blackbird Wineshop, @7:00pm): Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting. This show is 21 and over. The readers for July 7 are Pat Cason, Jan Priddy, Nicholas Karavatos, and Susan DeFreitas.

CFI/Freethinkers Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month’s nonfiction book group meets to discuss the second half of Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal.

Steve Duno (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): Last Dog on the Hill tells the story of an indigent young Rottweiler mix who, after abandoning his pack and the hills of his birth, went on to change the lives of hundreds of people and dogs, including Steve Duno’s, whose career as a behaviorist and writer was made possible through Lou’s extraordinary intelligence and heart. Lou won the respect of gang members, foiled an armed robbery, caught a rapist, fought coyotes and kidnappers, comforted elderly war veterans and Alzheimer patients in their final days, taught ASL to kids, learned scores of unique behaviors and tricks, amassed a vocabulary of nearly 200 words, helped rehabilitate hundreds of aggressive dogs and saved them from euthanasia. He was also a clown, consummate performer and Steve’s best friend for sixteen years. His story will make readers laugh and cry in equal measures.

Aimee Bender (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday) is a luminous tale — heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad — and was chosen as the latest volume of Powells.com’s Indiespensable subscription club.

Adult Book Group (Tualatin Public Library, @8:00pm): July’s selection is Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck.. Our book discussion group is an informal and relaxed gathering, with a respectful, congenial, and inquisitive atmosphere. Every member of the group takes two to three minutes to give their overall impression of the book. After everyone has given their opening summary, the group is ready to engage in a more thorough discussion. Everyone will be given an opportunity to participate in the discussion, however participation is not a requirement. Listeners are welcome!

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You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.

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