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Dear Readers,
Our December newsletter is a brief one.. a special edition of staff favorites and gift guides will be coming soon.
A new letter from China was sent from Book Beat reviewer Tom Bowden who writes about his journey on the Yangtze river, and our repost this month is bookstore Patron Saints –about 1920s Parisian bookstore owners Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier.
We have changed our November reading group meeting to Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 7 PM. Our January reading group book is The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector, recently featured in Tom Bowden’s last column i arrogantly recommend… More copies have been ordered and are on their way. A notice will be sent to the reading group when available.
We hope to have your support for two fundraisers this weekend in support of two Detroit landmarks – on Friday and Saturday for the community non-profit space and cafè Trinosophes and on Sunday for the Gesu School library.
We wish all our friends, relatives and customers a healthy and peaceful season.
~Cary, Colleen and the staff at Book Beat
“Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
UPCOMING EVENTS
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1-2: TRINOSOPHES FUNDRAISER
Friday-Saturday, December 1-2 Book Beat will be hosting a fundraiser for Trinosophes Projects, a non-profit Detroit performance space and gallery, cafe, and producer of other projects such as Three Fold and Two Rooms Records. Mention the words “Trinos” or “Trinosophes Fundraiser” and we will donate 20% of your sale to the non-profit. If you happen to miss our fundraiser, consider donating directly to Trinosophes Projects with their Paypal link. Read more about Trinosophes Projects here.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3: BOOKRAISER FOR GESU with Special Guests Stephen Mack Jones, Patricia Montemurri and Bea Jackson
Sunday, December 3 from 12-5PM join us for the Ninth Annual Bookraiser for the Library of Gesu School at Book Beat. For those interested in supporting Gesu, 20% of your purchase can be donated to the library, along with any books purchased directly for the library. A list of books that the library has requested will be available that day. Guest authors Stephen Mack Jones, Patricia Montemurri, and illustrator Bea Jackson will also be in attendance signing their books! Read more about this event here.
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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass