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Bookmarks Fri Aug 26 2011
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- Poetry possibilities for this weekend:Sophie Robinson, Saturday, 7pm at Myopic Books. Carrie McGath, Saturday, 7pm at Quimby's. Weekend Poetry Slam, Sunday, 7pm at the Green Mill.
- A reader falls in love with Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife on vacation in Italy.
- Tonight! April Jervis reads from 365 Ways to Raise Funds for Your Nonprofit: Practical Ideas for Every Not-for-Profit Organization at the Book Cellar.
- Tonight! Lucrecia Guerrero reads from Tree of Sighs at Women and Children First.
- Tonight! Red Rover Reading Series with Geof Huth and Steve Roggenbuck at Outer Space Studio.
- Saturday! Jeanne M. Dams reads from Murder in Burnt Orange at Centuries and Sleuths .
- Sunday! Author Afternoon at the Beverly Arts Center featuring J. Adam Oaks (Why I Fight ).
- Sunday! The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience: Chicago with Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza , Alex Shakar , Marisel Vera and Lenore Zionat Katerina's.
- Booklist's Book Group blog considers Wendy McClure's The Wilder Life and other Laura Ingalls Wilder titles.
- Salon reviews Becoming Ray Bradbury, a new book that discusses the sci-fi author's rise to fame.
- Tom McBride and Ron Nief read from The Mindset Lists of American History: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think Is Normal at the Skokie Barnes and Noble.