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We are now open at our new location!!
BookWoman, 5501 North Lamar #A-105,
(between North Loop and Koenig Ln.) 512-472-2785
10am-9pm Monday-Saturday & Noon-6pm Sunday.
We’re across the street from the U-Haul and next door to Great Hall Games.
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Events to look forward
to at BookWoman.. Title of Event: Historic Hotels of Texas: A Traveler's Guide and author Liz Carmack
When: Saturday, May 10, 2008 2:00 PM
Location: BookWoman
Description: Austinite Liz Carmack traveled more than 17,000 miles around the Lone Star State to research her boo...
Title of Event: Screening + Discussion of Considering Democracy: 8 Things to Ask Your Representative
When: Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:00 PM
Location: BookWoman
Description: Join us for a screening + discussion of the documentary film Considering Democracy: 8 Things to Ask ...
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New Arrivals at BookWoman
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Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers
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Morrison, Susan
No other politician inspires such a wide range of passionate feelings as Hillary Rodham Clinton. As America's first viable female candidate for president, she has become the repository of many women's contradictory hopes and fears. To some she's a sellout who changed her name and her hairstyle when it suited her husband's career; to others she's a hardworking idealist with the political savvy to work effectively within the system. Where one person sees a carpetbagger, another sees a dedicated politician; where one sees a humiliated and long-suffering wife, another sees a dignified First Lady. Is she tainted by the scandals of her husband's presidency, or has she gained experience and authority from weathering his missteps? Cold or competent, overachiever or pioneer, too radical or too moderate, Hillary Clinton continues to overturn the assumptions we make about her. In "Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary," New Yorker editor Susan Morrison has compiled this timely collection of thirty original pieces by America's most notable women writers. This pointillistic portrait paints a composite picture of Hillary Clinton, focusing on details from the personal to the political, from the hard-hitting to the whimsical, to give a well-balanced and unbiased view of the woman who may be our first Madam President. Taken together, these essays--by such renowned writers as Daphne Merkin, Lorrie Moore, Deborah Tannen, Susan Cheever, Lionel Shriver Kathryn Harrison, and Susan Orlean--illuminate the attitudes that women have toward the powerful women around them and constitute a biography that is must reading for anyone interested in understanding this complex and controversial politician. |
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The Book Goddess BookGroup meets the second Sunday of each month at 1pm at BookWoman. April's pick is She Who Walks the Labyrinth by Kassandra Sojourner. May's selection is The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries by Z. Budapest. New members are welcome.
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She Who Walks the Labyrinth
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Sojourner, Kassandra G.
A work of historically-based, visionary fiction. Minoan Crete is the envy of the late bronze-age world. It is the cultural trading and economic center of the Mediterranean. The people of Crete, along with the nearby island of Thera, live a lavish lifestyle that other people can only imagine; indoor plumbing, vividly painted and stylish "palace centers, a sophisticated and urbane populace. |
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The BookWoman BookGroup usually meets in the store at 7pm, on the last Thursday of each month. We always have lively and engaging discussions. We read a wide variety of titles, pick new titles collectively, and welcome new members. We give a 10% discount on the book of the month.
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
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Hempel, Amy,
Moody, Rick
Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short collections of stunning stories about marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation.With her inimitable compassion and wit, Hempel introduces characters who make choices that seem inevitable, and whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience. For readers who have known Hempel's work for decades and for those who are just discovering her, this indispensable volume contains all the stories in "Reasons to Live," "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom," "Tumble Home," and "The Dog of the Marriage," No reader of great writing should be without it. |
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Come join us for readings & discussions on the act of feminist mothering! We'll examine the experience of motherhood as we read books from leading feminist authors who tackle such issues as the economics of motherhood, cultural expectations, as well as memoirs. Whether or not you consider yourself a politically active feminist mom, you are welcome!
Faciliated by Laura Shook, we meet every 3rd Sunday at 1pm. April's selection is Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin.
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Jump at the Sun
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McLarin, Kim
After a series of stressful personal transitions, Grace Jefferson finds herself in a new house in a new city and in a new career for which she feels dangerously unsuited: a stay-at-home mom. An educated and accomplished modern woman, a child of the Civil Rights dream, she is caught between the only two models of mothering she has ever known--a sharecropping grandmother who abandoned her children to save herself and a mother who sacrificed all to save her kids--as she struggles to find a middle ground. But as the days pass and the pressures mount, Grace begins to catch herself in small acts of abandonment that she fears may foretell a future she is powerless to prevent . . . or perhaps secretly seeks. "Jump at the Sun" is a novel about an isolating suburban life and the continuing legacy of slavery, about generational change and the price of living the dream for which our parents fought. In her bold and fearless voice, Kim McLarin explores both the highs and lows of being a mother, and how breaking the cycle of suffocation and regret, while infuriatingly difficult, is absolutely necessary. |
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Women writing in and about our community...
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love conjure/blues
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Bridgforth, Sharon
love conjure/blues is performance literature/a novel that is constructed for breath. the piece is not meant to be theater/a concert/an opera or a staged reading but is. ... love conjure/blues considers a range of possibilities of gender expression and sexuality within a southern/rural/Black working class context that examines the blues as a way of life/as ritual--in concert with Ancient practices and new creations... |
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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Mudbound
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Jordan, Hillary
Rural Mississippi just after the Second World War is a hard and muddy place. Hillary Jordan's novel Mudbound evokes the era brilliantly--returning soldiers trying to find their way after the brutality of the war, some facing the continuing brutality of a racist America. A very compelling story.--Cathy Langer, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver, CO) |
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