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WNBA Reading at BookShop West Portal
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Thursday, September 24
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Call of the Wild Mind
Call of the Wild Mind is the theme for this year's Jack London Writers Conference this October 10th and 11th. The two day event at the Crowne Plaza in Foster City is packed with four keynote speakers (Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking), Dr. Quantum (What the Bleep!), Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior), and a special interview with Natalie Goldberg (Wild Mind) plus 36 workshops! Not only that, the conference fee includes two breakfasts and two lunches!
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3rd Annual National Reading Group Month Event
Celebrating the Joy of Shared Reading
Thursday, October 15th, - p.m.
Book Passage (Corte Madera)
Women’s National Book Association Authors
C.W. Gortner, Kathi Kamen Goldmar
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Interview With Creator Tanya Egan Gibson
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&#;Bad&#; Habits and Edna
I have a really bad habit, that I have no intention of breaking, of judging books at a glance, by their cover. This habit our parents and grandparents warned us against, is justified to me by two things: my marketing degree and a blurb Paul Collins wrote in his book Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books.
Regardless of that justification, it has led me to some horrible mistakes (I thought Rudolf Steiner’s Festival series was going to inform me of the historical significance and establishment of festivals, not be metaphysical ravings of his take on religion butchered by an editor) but also to many happy mistakes.
Directly, it led me to Tanya Egan Gibson’s (Yes, I have a writer crush on her right now, forgive me) How to Buy a Love of Reading, whose cover is amazing, but what’s inside is unexpectedly ten times better. Indirectly, I have discovered the delightful Edna St. Vincent Millay, and that story is a little more intricate.
You see, I once belonged to an online book club. It was lovely place that I adored, where as a group, we read lots of British things. We had fabulous nicknames (I was Lady Klemm of Deasa Manor) and were only required to read the selections and maintain our character. At first… later there were a whole host of requi