I hope you are staying well and are sheltered safely and as comfortably as possible, preferably with several books around that you have been waiting for time to read.
Book Discussion Schedule Update
We are postponing our in-person March discussion of Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovich in keeping with precautions to protect the health of all during this pandemic.
With this change, our scheduled books will each be pushed forward one month, which means our current schedule of discussions will conclude in July, rather than in June. Please click here to see the revised schedule.
Reading and Related Resources for Sheltering at Home
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Please keep our friends at local independent bookstore Books Inc. in mind for your reading needs. The stores are closed, but the staff is taking online orders and offering free delivery. (And, good news, Walk Through Walls is in stock!) Did you know you can order e-books and audio books through Books Inc.? You can.
Looking for reading ideas?
Here are just a few:
View several years of our book selections here.
The Indie Next List, the community of independent bookstores, has abundant reviews and recommendations.
NPR offers Books We Like, the Book Concierge, and a sizable collection of book reviews and author interviews (plus still more via podcasts and shows).
For cinematic literary exploration, Literary Hub identified its top 10 list of adaptations from the last decade and Book Riot has listed "100 must-read adapted books."
Litquake offers recordings of past literary events via the Lit Cast podcast.
The libraries have closed, yet electronic resources remain available. For example, San Francisco Public Library users can access e-books, music, and videos for free through Hoopla; a large video collection through Kanopy; and several e-book collections. (Readers living in other library systems have access to similar resources. Please check your library's website.)
And CNN has collected links to museums and galleries offering online, virtual visits.
Admittedly, these resources are technology-reliant. We, too, look forward to the resumption of the Bay Area's rich variety of live and in-person cultural gatherings and events and the reopening of the libraries and bookstores.
With well wishes of health and safe sheltering.
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