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Bring out your books, it’s the Chicago Reader’s annual Book Swap! Remember when you went through that The Secret phase? Now’s the time to offload load it on the next unsuspecting fool. [Ed. note: Or,, you could pass on your well-thumbed DFW collection of short stories too ... you don't wanna turn the kids OFF of reading, right?]
Schlep up to 15 gently used books and you will be escorted into the Bottom Lounge’s literary treasure hunt. To assist you in your quest for those needles in the proverbial haystack, there will be judgement-impairing Bookworm drink specials and a free Chicago Public Library tote bag to the first 100 stampeding swappers (to whip your public radio friends into a jealous frenzy). Other potential prizes include Steppenwolf tickets and copies of the new World of Warcraft novel, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King.
Disclaimer: Bring and take as many as 15 books, but nothing muddy, dirty, torn or in poor condition, and no periodicals, encyclopedias, or technical, legal, or medical-information books.
Chicago Reader Book Swap, April 29, 6-9pm, Bottom Lounge, 1375 W Lake St, Chicago, FREE!, 21+.
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The Gapers Block Book Club is doing a book swap too, also with Open Books, on May 14 at Black Rock (Damen & Addison). We, uh, probably should have coordinated with the Reader, but neither knew the other one was planning something. Oops.
Anyway, if you can't make this one, you should come to ours! They both benefit the same organization, so it's all good.
Hey, who said a well-thumbed DFW collection of short stories would turn kids OFF of reading? I've always been under the impression that Girl with Curious Hair, or Oblivion, would reach out and bring children into the wonderful world of reading. That being said, I am also an idealistic fool.
I read it as implying that the DFW collection wouldn't turn them off reading, unlike The Secret, which surely would.
Couldn't this have been posted yesterday?
For real! I would have gone if I had known about this earlier.
yeah it's definitely last minute... i'm gonna try to make it. i definitely have some books i want to get rid of.