We have three passes for M-Th screenings of The Girl Who Played With Fire (good for two admissions each) that we're giving away on Facebook.  All you have to do is share the link to this blog post on your wall, leave a comment here (on the related post), and we'll do the drawing Thursday around 2pm - plenty of time to even attend Thursday's showing!  FYI: the film is running at the Century 14 Downtown, and should be running until at least August 5.

Attached is a printable pdf coupon (pictured) good for 25% off a title from our International Fiction or Mystery sections! (Valid until August 10) 

Primarily, you're used to hearing about events & event related information from me, and new books (if you're on our email newsletter) elsewhere - but I read a ton, and I love recommending clever, fresh, unusual books, especially by new writers. 

You - as patrons of indie bookstores - probably realize that you'd never hear about these books on Amazon (and this recent Nation article is fantastic for explaining the core problem I have with the site: forgetting that they don't pay taxes that benefit our community, or bring in authors for events, it's impossible to stumble across fantastic midlist books that aren't heavily marketed.  It's the crux of the issue surrounding e-books as well, because how do you happen to find a really great read without booksellers or shelves peppered with paper recommendations or eye-catching spines?).

On Tuesday, July 27 at 7pm, writer Melanie Sumner will be here to talk about her new novel The Ghost of Milagro Creek, which is set in Taos, and is pretty haunting - she's a great writer, who's contributed short stories to The New Yorker & Harper's, and I know we New Mexicans are bound to compare it (favorably!) to Bless Me, Ultima - maybe this will wind up on some of your picks for best 100 Best New Mexico Books(voting for that is going on now!)... it should definitely show up on a list of the Best NEW Books about New Mexico... I'll work on making a list of those in my spare time ;)

Anyway, I liked so much what Melanie had to say about the writing of this book, that I wanted to share it with you: