BOOK SOUP

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Bookseller to the great and infamous since 1975, located on the world famous Sunset Strip; voted best independent bookstore in Los Angeles by LA Weekly. Known for our floor to ceiling bookshelves, high profile author events, signed books, and celebrity clientele, Book Soup is a must see on any tour of LA. We're here to stimulate your mind, engage you in conversation, and pair you with your next great read. 310.659.3110 8818 W Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069

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thequotejournals

What if we just went home and read books to each other?

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story (2010)

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The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

happifying-things

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Vintage editions of The Metamorphosis, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984

bookaddict24-7

When the sun falls just right on a creepy book. #Aesthetics

hmhbooks

National Poetry Month Day 7: an excerpt from “Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer” from OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS by T.S. Eliot, illustrated by Edward Gorey. Happy Caturday!

universitybookstore

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is widely considered to be cinema’s greatest achievement in the science fiction genre. Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson is the definitive story of the film’s creation, now available from Simon & Schuster.

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On Wednesday, April 11th, Michael Benson will be discussing and signing Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece at #BOOKSOUP

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Patricia Highsmith, c.1942

hmhbooks

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Irish and Irish-American Literature

THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN by Timothy Egan – The National Book Award–winning author of The Worst Hard Time illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.

THE FIRST DAY by Phil Harrison – Set in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences—the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways.

A LINE MADE BY WALKING by Sara Baume – The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist’s search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland.

ASHES OF FIERY WEATHER by Kathleen Donohoe – A debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11.

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The poet Sylvia Plath and the novelist Charlotte Brontë. Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching activist. These extraordinary women — and so many others — did not have obituaries in The New York Times. Until now.

About time.