Thursday, December 6, 2012

Extra Credit?

With the term ending in a scant 3 weeks, you might need an extra credit event! Here are a few choice options:

Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
                                  
Dec 7 Friday 7:00 PM 
Louise Glück  reads from  Poems 1962-2012
       
Monday December 10, 2012 7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome psychologist DONNA PINCUS and YA novelists SUSAN CARLTON and KATHRYN BURAK for a reading of their books and a panel discussion about adversity and teens.

Harvard Coop
1400 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,  MA 02238

Tuesday, December 11 Time: 07:00 PM-08:00 PM
Karen Engelmann
"The Stockholm Octavo"
This is the story of Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat and devoted card shark living in Sweden’s capitol city in 1791. Gaming house owner Mrs. Sofia Sparrow draws Emil into laying his OCTAVO, a form of fortunetelling with playing cards that reveals eight people surrounding a significant event in his life. Emil can influence the outcome of this event in his favor If he can find his eight in time.

Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard St. Brookline MA 02446

Thursday, December 6 at 7pm
Ricardo Cortés
A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola

Go the F*ck to Sleep illustrator Ricardo Cortés returns with the history behind coffee and cola, tempting the reader with secret plots, the true story behind coca-cola, and what coca-cola had to do with Prohibition (quite a bit,
 actually). It’s a gloriously illustrated tale of hypocrisy and intrigue.





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