Gibson’s Bookstore has a lot on its plate over the next week or so. Don’t worry though, because this bookseller is no stranger to event-packed schedules, as there seems to be something going on there just about every day. Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s going on at Gibson’s in the near future.
Nathan Hill author event Thursday
Author Nathan Hill will be at Gibson’s on Thursday night at 7 to talk about his new book, The Nix.
A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill’s remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson, college professor, stalled writer, has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true?
The event is free and open to the public.
Katina Makris author event
Katina Makris will return to Gibson’s on Sept. 14 at 5:30 p.m. to discuss her book Autoimmune Illness and Lyme Disease Recovery Guide: Mending the Body, Mind and Spirit.
Makris, a veteran natural health care practitioner and former sufferer of CFS, fibromyalgia and Lyme, carefully explains the mechanisms at play with autoimmune illness. “The body is not compartmentalized into illness symptomology, but is integrated and whole; the mind-body-spirit are entwined as one, searching for balance or homeostasis,” she writes. With clear insight into our seven energy chakra centers and the correlation to our bodily systems and specific emotional interplay, Autoimmune Illness and Lyme Disease Recovery Guide is a manual and workbook, educating readers on the role of Integrative Medicine and dietary and lifestyle management for optimizing recovery potentials, as well as how to ignite the mind-body healing pathway.
The event is free and open to the public.
Book club
Gibson’s Book Club is now reading Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger.
The book club, which meets the first Monday of the month at 7 p.m., is free and open to the public, and newcomers are encouraged.
Most titles are in paperback, or should be by the time we’ll read them, and will be discounted 25 percent from the publisher’s price for the following year, whether you join us for meetings or not.
Gibson’s Bookstore
