Monday Roundup: December 8 - 14

Bookish events in Texas for the week of December 8 - 14, 2014:

Monday, December 8:

Dallas
Wyly Studio Theatre, Oral Fixation presents "Outside the Box," 8PM

Houston
Katy Budget Books, Award-winning novelist and singer/songwriter, Mike Blakely signs his new mystery A Song to Die For, 6PM

Tuesday, December 9:

Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Elizabeth Crook and Turk Pipkin book signing, 7PM

Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave Presents: Stephanie Noll, Lauren Modery, Ben Steinbauer & Janet Hyde (fundraiser), 8PM

Malvern Books, Raw Paw Reading Series: Mind Maze - release party for Postcard Habitats by Jonathan Lowell, 7PM

Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Westwood Country Club, Texas Book Festival Presents: Literary Lunch with S.C. Gwynne, 11:15AM

Dallas
The Wild Detectives, Luke B. Goebel will discuss Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours: A Novel, 7PM

Houston

Katy Budget Books, Gena Showalter Virtual Signing Event, 7PM

Murder By the Book, E. J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen) will sign and discuss Inspector Spector and The Question of the Missing Head, 6:30PM

San Antonio

B&N, San Pedro, Sun Poets' Society Open Mic Poetry, 7PM

Wednesday, December 10:

Austin
Bookpeople, WALTER ISAACSON speaking & signing The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, 12:30PM

Monkeywrench Books, ABC Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night with Austin Anarchist Black Cross, 7PM

WATERLOO RECORDS AND VIDEO, Book signing: John T. Davis The Flatlanders: Now It's Now Again, 7PM

Dallas

Texas Theater, Oral Fixation presents "Outside the Box," 8PM

The Wild Detectives, Deep Vellum Presents Marian Schwartz (Russian translator of Mikhail Shishkin, Andrei Gelasimov, and more, reading from her translation of Anna Karenina), 7PM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Sister Patricia Marie Lohre of IWBS reads and signs Open Your Eyes, Open Your Heart, 5PM

Thursday, December 11:

Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Poetry Open Mic, 7PM

Bookwoman, Second Thursday Open Mic featuring David Meischen, 7:15PM

Waterloo Records & Video, Michael and Elizabeth O'Brien book signing for The Face of Texas, 7PM

Dallas

The Tower Club, John DeMers and Carolyn Kneese discuss Bragging Rights: The Dallas-Houston Rivalry, 6PM

The Wild Detectives, Student poets from Southern Methodist University will read selections at “Rapid Readings,” 7PM

Houston

Blue Willow Bookshop, Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo will discuss and sign their book THIS IS A BOOK FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS and Vivek Shraya will sign his book GOD LOVES HAIR, 7PM

Kaboom Books, Kate Schmitt reads from her new memoir, SINGING BONES, 7:30PM

Plano
B&N - Preston/Park, Marjorie R. Firmin Signing I Won't Let You Die!, 5PM

Round Rock

B&N - La Frontera, chef Jack Gilmore presents Jack Allen's Kitchen: Celebrating the Tastes of Texas, 7PM

Sugarland
B&N - First Colony Mall, Jackson Michael presents The Game before the Money: Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL, 7PM

Friday, December 12:

Austin

Bookwoman, THIS IS A BOOK FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS book talk with authors Dannielle Owens-Reid & Kristin Russo and a Special Guest, 7PM

Dallas
SMU Bookstore, John DeMers and Carolyn Kneese will sign Bragging Rights: The Dallas-Houston Rivalry, 2PM

Farmers Branch
Brookhaven Club, John DeMers and Carolyn Kneese discuss Bragging Rights: The Dallas-Houston Rivalry, 5:30PM

Garland
Half Price Books, James Howell will sell and sign his book, Countdown to Atomgeddon: The Race to Build the First Atomic Bomb, 12PM

Houston

Discovery Green, Orbit Poetry Slam, 6PM

Plano
Costco (Dallas Parkway), The Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation will host a book signing for Football and Integration in Plano, Texas: Stay in There, Wildcats, 1PM

Saturday, December 13:

Amarillo
BYN - Westgate, book signing for This Might Be A Good Story by the Amarillo Globe's Jon Mark Beilue, 1PM

Austin

B&N - Sunset Valley, signing of Waiting Hearts by Beth Ann Stifflemire, 7PM

Bookpeople, GIVING TREE STORYTIME: BOOKSPRING, 11:30AM

Brave New Books, Jordan Page In Concert, 7PM

Malvern Books, An Evening with Peter J. Story & Joanne Fox Phillips, 7PM

Monkeywrench Books, Ugly Holiday Sweater Dance Party, 9PM

Beaumont
B&N - Parkdale Mall, Meet the Writer: Kenneth Lee Greer, 1PM

Dallas

31 Bar and Grill, Love Jonz Presents Poetry-music-dinner with RAGE ALMIGHTY, 8PM

B&N - Preston Royal, Martha Louise Hunter Signs Painting Juliana, 2PM

Mighty Fine Arts, Holiday Jamnation featuring Randall Garrett and Inferno Texino with Andy Don Emmons, Clay Stinnett, Jason Cohen and Mark Martinek, 9PM

Denton

B&N - Golden Triangle Mall, Willy the Texas Longhorn Storytime and Signing, 10AM

B&N - Golden Triangle Mall, Blue Bonnet the Armadillo Storytime and Signing Bluebonnet at the State Fair of Texas, 11AM

El Paso
B&N - Sunland Park, Mark Paulda Signing El Paso 120 Edge of the Southwest, 4PM

Galveston

Galveston Bookshop, Miles Arcenaux signs Ransom Island, 2PM

Garland

Half Price Books, Jema K. Hill Cook will sell and sign her inspirational book, Reflection: What I Know to be True, 1PM

Houston

Blue Willow Bookshop, Paul Yarbrough will discuss and sign his book, A MISSISSIPPI WHISPER, 2PM

Red Rocket Houston, Houston VIP Poetry Slam Featuring Pages Matam, 7PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Rick Young and Tom Cox will sign Island Undertow: Conflict and Greed on Galveston Island, 5PM

Hurst
B&N - NE Mall, Heather Grier Signing A Friend Loves at All Times, 2PM

Irving
Irving Public Library - Central Library, Irving Chautauqua Presents An Afternoon with S.C. Gwynne, 2PM

Irving Public Library - East Branch, Posadas Second Annual Celebration with storytelling from author Xavier Garza, 2PM

McAllen

B&N - Palms Crossing, Hello Little Snowflake reading by Suzanne Schrewe, 7PM

San Antonio

B&N - Ingram Festival, Melissa Weathersby signing Are You Arresting Your Blessing?, 1PM

B&N - San Pedro, Diane G. Bertrand and Thelma Muraida - Author and Illustrator Presentation and Book Signing for Cecilia and Miguel Are Best Friends/Cecilia y Miguel son mejores amigos, 2PM

Bexar BiblioTech, Recetas de Mi Vida reading and snacks, 3PM

Viva! Bookstore, The Women Jesus Loved Book Signing and Dramatic Re-telling of "The Woman Who Wept at His Feet" with Jonathan Williams, president of WGS Ministries, 1PM

South Padre Island

Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, Literary Mercado, 1PM

Sugarland
Half Price Books, Shicreta Murray will sell and sign her inspirational books, Hear the Sound and Confessions of Hear the Sound, 12PM

The Woodlands
B&N - Woodlands Mall, Keith Williamson signs Kayla and the Christmas Monkey, 2PM

Sunday, December 14:

Austin

B&N - Arboretum, Tim and Elizabeth O'Brien Signing The Face of Texas, 1PM

George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center, Austin Zine Fest 2014, 12PM

Denton

Recycled Books, Fishboy will perform a special acoustic version of their new album An Elephant, 4PM
Hurst
B&N - NE Mall, George Dalton Signing A Collision of Dreams, 1PM

McAllen
B&N - Palms Crossing, Celeste Barnard signing Chicken Soup for the Soul: Food and Love, 2PM

Round Rock
The Book Spot, Holly Through the Heart Event w/ Sisters in Crime, 2PM

San Antonio

B&N - La Cantera, San Antonio Romance Authors Signing, 1PM

The Twig Book Shop, N. E. Cogg reads and signs The Overrated Apple Core, 2PM