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November Special
All Month:
20% off
all Fiction books!
Don't miss out on our other specials! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Note:
The Open Books store will be closed from November 25-28.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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| The Revels Are Coming, The Revels Are Coming!
The Revelry is right around the corner! Join Open Books for this gala evening celebrating the love of reading, writing and the Revelatory power of used books. Dine, drink, dance, and bid on exclusive auction packages including:
- Fantastic trips to Maui, Jackson Hole and Orlando
- Chances to have your book published and use the Open Books store for a private party
- Tickets to the opera, symphony, and Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks games
- A hot air balloon ride, spa packages, rare books, original art, dinner at some of Chicago's most famous restaurants, and more!
November 5
7pm
Salvage One
Tickets $100 each:
Get Yours Now!
FREE
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| Open Books Welcomes
Little Red Leaves
Lyricists from Little Red Leaves make for a perfect fall evening at the Open Books Store. Six contributors to LRL, an online poetry and chapbook journal, will perform selections of their work.
November 11
7 - 8:30pm
FREE
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Have you seen the first edition Oz title and the Muhammad Ali autograph in our Rare & Wonderful section? Stop in today to find out more about these treasures!
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Get Ready:
VestFest Midwest!
Winter is in. Sleeves are out. It can only mean one thing: it's time for Vest Fest Midwest, and this year's beneficiary is Open Books! Embrace winter and join us for an afternoon of merry-making and creative vesting, all while supporting literacy in Chicago.
November 13
3 - 7pm
Zella
1983 N. Clybourn
$40
(includes food and open bar)
RSVP Now!
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Dear Open Books friends,
Thank you. There are times when the simplest words are the most suitable. November, a month where we traditionally express gratitude, also happens to mark our first anniversary as a store, community hub, and place where eager readers can come to buy their latest books and support literacy. A year ago, the Open Books team could not have imagined that the store would be all that it is today. And none of this would have been possible without the contributions of our generous donors, customers, and volunteers. We are humbled and grateful for all the ways that you make the store a fantastic literacy and literary destination. Thank you for making the store's first year a memorable and successful one! This month, we are offering 20% off all of the titles in our most popular section... Fiction! The section is packed, so you shouldn't have any problem finding something that piques your interest. We hope you'll visit us soon to let us know what you have been reading and to help our students with a purchase or donation. At the risk of sounding like a Gertrude Stein selection, I have to say it one more time: Thank you.
Kevin Elliott
Bookstore Manager
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National Novel Writing Month At Open Books
Hooray! November is here, and that means it's time for aspiring novelists everywhere to sharpen their pencils, dust off their keyboards, and join in the awesomeness that is National Novel Writing Month!
From now until November 30, writers here in Chicago (and worldwide!) will race towards their goal of 50,000 words and the perennial honor of becoming novelists. To help make it happen, and to celebrate this annual frenzy and frolic, Open Books is thrilled to present its NaNoWriMo schedule for 2010.
WEEKLY WRITE-INS
Purple velvet chairs, smooshy leather couches, twinking star lights, the one and only Doom Buggy, over 50,000 used books, and free WiFi all breathlessly await the visiting genius of NaNoWriMo. Each and every Tuesday in November, come be with us for an unparalleled wordsmithing experience.
November 2
November 9
November 16
November 23
4 - 7pm
Open Books Store
THE FINAL MARATHON
For the fourth year in a row, Open Books throws open its fabulous classroom space for the last breathless sprint to the finish. Stay up late, eat cookies, explore new heights (and depths) of verbose fiction, and celebrate the magic 50,000 on the stroke of midnight.
November 30
12noon - 7pm
Open Books Store
7pm - 11:59pm
Open Books Literacy Center
THE AMAZING COLLABORATIVE NOVEL:
140 CHARACTERS AT A TIME
New For 2010! Can a great novel be written one word - or, in this case, 140 characters - at a time? Open Books welcomes all Wrimos to find out by joining in the grand effort to produce a collective novel on Twitter! Progress will be tracked real-time on a live monitor in the bookstore, prizes will be given for milestone-marking tweets, and all those aspiring authors who were scared by taking on the 50,000-word challenge alone will band together in the most character-limited, collaboration-centric, creativity-charged event of the novel-writing year.
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David, Bookstore Intern Extraordinaire, Is Thankful For...I'm thankful for Stephen King. I was an avid reader from an early age; I never required much encouragement to read and reread my Dr. Seuss or my E.B. White, and my parents were always happy to haul me to the library. But there are plenty of adults with similar backgrounds who haven't maintained their reading habits, and I'd bet that many of them dropped the habit during their teen years. Why didn't I? Because I'm a huge nerd? Not necessarily, I could have completely ditched the books for computer games. The primary reason that I didn't is Stephen King.
I started reading King in junior high, and didn't stop until I had read just about everything up to Gerald's Game. Beside the fact that King's stories scared me, I'm not sure I could explain why they appealed to me so much. The endings were usually bad (a problem solved in Night Watch and Skeleton Crew), and the sex and morality tended to be a bit clumsy. But he wrote adeptly about adolescents and I've always liked his take on human interactions and social institutions. I stopped reading him after high school, when I felt like his work didn't have the same magic for me as it had before, with a couple exceptions. I was recently shocked to realize that he had written several books in the 2000s that I was completely unaware of. I guess I've "moved on," but Mr. King is why I'm still reading, albeit without the demonic antiques dealers. So thank you Stephen King, for providing reading material for countless people who, without your stories, might have opted to be entertained by a computer, video game, or tv program instead.
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