This Week in Events

This Week in Events!

Monday, July 14 at 7:30pm

Brookline Booksmith Book Club

Our book club meets at 7:30 pm on the second Monday of each month in the downstairs Writers’ and Readers’ Room. They will be discussing Teju Cole's Open City. 

Wednesday, July 16 at 7pm

FICTION

Rebecca Makkai

The Hundred-Year House

A love story and a ghost story all at once, Rebecca Makkai (The Borrower) presents a dazzling novel about fate, family, and the incredible surprises life offers. Zee, a Marxist literary scholar, and her husband Doug move into the coach house of Laurelfield, her family’s 100-year-old estate. Doug is supposedly writing a biography about poet Edwin Parfitt but actually spends most of his time falling in love with Zee’s step-brother’s wife, writing teen novels for a book packaging company, and trying to break into Laurelfield’s attic, which holds records of the arts colony based there in the 1920’s. As the narrative zips back in time, we learn the secrets of Laurelfield, hidden from Doug but laid bare to the reader in an immensely satisfying literary scavenger hunt.

 

Thursday, July 17 at 7pm

Small Press Book Club

Our new book club selects readings from independent presses. Read something off the beaten path! Free and open to the public, meeting third Thursday of each month at 7pm. This month we are reading The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom, published by Archipelago Books. 

 

Friday, July 18 at 7pm

FICTION

Deborah Harkness

The Book of Life

Deborah Harkness joins us with the long-awaited third and final book of the All Souls Trilogy. Historian and witch Dana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont are back and reunited with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches, with one important exception. As they search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages, Dana and Matthew draw ever closer to learning what the witches discovered centuries ago. From ancestral homes to university laboratories, with a mix of ancient knowledge and modern science, The Book of Life brings the All Souls Trilogy to a satisfying end.

Saturday, July 19 at 10:30am

Children's Storytime

Do you love picture books? Join us in our children’s section as our fine children’s team reads stories aloud every third Saturday and last Sunday of the month.

As always, if you would like a signed copy of a book but cannot make an event, call us at 617-566-6660 or order online and put 'signed copy' in the comments field.