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October 25th Newsletter

Greetings!

We have had an important change: the new date for our Holiday Open House is now Saturday, November 18th, from 10AM to 8PM! Come get your Holiday Shopping started, and maybe completed too! See below for details.

Men Only Shopping Night is in the works! Come in and sign up for our new Gift Registry so the elves can help pick out the perfect Christmas present for you!

New Picks from Nancy this week!

Holiday Open House Date Change

We Would Love to See You!

Our Holiday Open House has been changed - the new date is Saturday, November 18th, from 10AM to 8PM. We will be having refreshments, live hammered dulcimer music by Andy Caruso from 4 to 6PM, door prizes, and a 20% special sale on everything in the shop! Come take this opportunity to let us thank you for such a warm welcome into the community!

Men Only Shopping Night - Dec. 8th, 5 to 9PM

New Gift Registry - Come sign it before Shopping Night!

Our First Annual Men Only Shopping Night on Friday, December 8th, from 5PM to 9PM. We will be there to help you pick out that special gift for the woman or girl in your life - we have gorgeous jewelry, soaps, gift baskets you can fill yourself, books, stationery, candles and home goodies. We will help you pick it out, wrap it, and have it ready to go under the tree!!

We have just started a Gift Registry, so come sign up for your Dream Gift!! Not just for the Holidays, but for birthdays, brides and mothers-to-be. Make shopping relaxing and enjoyable for those who want to get you that special gift!

Nancy's Picks of the Week

Some Unusual Choices this Week

My First Pick for the Week is Marisha Pessl's outstandingly different and interesting Special Topics in Calamity Physics. This unusually structured novel with each chapter named after a famous work of literature, contains a narrator who has been moved from school to another with her professor father. Settling in North Carolina for her final year of high school, Blue is left to try to make sense of two shocking deaths. The narrator has a great voice, ironic and intelligent, and I enjoyed her perspective on the occurrences in her life very much.

3 1/2 Stars

My Second Pick is The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier. Another unusual book set in the land between the Living and the Dead. These Dead are "living" in a land much like our own, a city, only kept from the final place by those who still remember them on earth. Yet a plague has hit, and people are coming in and out of this city faster than anyone can notice, as everyone who remembered them has died also.

Our main characters are remembered by a woman who is stuck in an Antarctic weather station, trying to get back home. She is running out of time, and as she fights for life, the existence of those she remembers hinges on the outcome of that fight. Very interesting, great voice, a different type of work.

3 Stars

My last choice for this month is Nora Ephron's hilarious I Feel Bad About My Neck. Every woman over 40 will relate to her discussions about aging and its effects on her life. Ephron brought us When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, and Bewitched, and numerous best sellers, and she is funny, smart and honest. I really enjoyed this quick read.

3 1/2 Stars

Look for our next Newsletter - we will be participating in the annual Christmas in Warrensburg with entertainment, contests, refreshments and live music.

Regards, Nancy

Maren Dunn Bookstore
Email: nancy@marendunn.com
Web: http://www.marendunnbooks.com