It's Labor Day weekend. Since I had an adventure last weekend (that included an encounter with seed ticks), I'm taking it slow this weekend. It will also be a nice refresher before the busy working month ahead. I started my morning at Barnes & Noble. This is a dangerous, but wonderful place, like most bookstores are. It'd be nice to have a local store, but B&N will do.
Booksmart Tulsa is
hosting author Salman Rushdie later in September. I'm trying to figure out how to go. The first step was getting tickets, which involved buying
his latest book at B&N. That step was easy. It was a low-risk scenario. Yes, it cost me (at a couple of discounts) the cost of a hardcover book. But I got the book and the tickets and regardless of how the tickets work out, I still have the book. Why is it possible that the tickets won't work out? I have a scheduled trip to Denver the weekend before this event, and my return flight leaves Denver 2 hours (considering time zones) after the start of the event in Tulsa. So that's a piece I have to figure out. It may be an eleventh hour decision. Airlines and I are not friends, so the attempt to make this happen may be fraught with futility, especially considering all of the ways one airline could figure out how to make this an even more expensive ticket to see Mr. Rushdie. I have my limits, so we will see.
I did some work at B&N this morning, inspired by some contemplative thinking during a massage last night. I also read up about Design Thinking in Harvard Business Review, some additional research for another project at work. And because I'm in a bookstore, I picked up another book. One that's been on my reading list. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison will be a heavy read, but also an important one. I read the forward and first chapter. The writing is differently structured, but beautiful; and Morrison's way with words is, in the least, fascinating and poetic. Since it is the third of three books I have going at the moment (1,
The Book of Speculation and 2,
The Magicians), my progress with it may be slow. I also intend to read a Rushdie book by the time of the event in less than a month (either his latest, or
Midnight's Children...haven't decided yet). I also have
Charles M. Blow's memoir on its way, and I'm eager to get into it. No matter what, it will continue to be a great month of reading. Regardless of how the Rushdie event pans out, I will also be visiting a Booksmart event with author Garth Stein in mid-September. Tulsa has some pretty great stuff going on this month.
Because, books.
~MJ
I did some work at B&N this morning, inspired by some contemplative thinking during a massage last night. I also read up about Design Thinking in Harvard Business Review, some additional research for another project at work. And because I'm in a bookstore, I picked up another book. One that's been on my reading list. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison will be a heavy read, but also an important one. I read the forward and first chapter. The writing is differently structured, but beautiful; and Morrison's way with words is, in the least, fascinating and poetic. Since it is the third of three books I have going at the moment (1, The Book of Speculation and 2, The Magicians), my progress with it may be slow. I also intend to read a Rushdie book by the time of the event in less than a month (either his latest, or Midnight's Children...haven't decided yet). I also have Charles M. Blow's memoir on its way, and I'm eager to get into it. No matter what, it will continue to be a great month of reading. Regardless of how the Rushdie event pans out, I will also be visiting a Booksmart event with author Garth Stein in mid-September. Tulsa has some pretty great stuff going on this month.