{"id":4922,"date":"2013-05-01T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:31:14","slug":"may-news-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2013\/05\/01\/may-news-events\/","title":{"rendered":"May News & Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Beat will be closed on Memorial Day- Monday, May 27. We will re-open on Tuesday, May 28 at 10am. Have a great holiday weekend!!<\/h2>\n

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Cult hero Ian Svenonius at Book Beat, Wednesday, May 15!<\/a><\/h2>\n

We are proud to welcome musician, author and cult hero Ian Svenonius<\/strong> to Book Beat on Wednesday, May 15<\/strong> from 7:00-8:00pm<\/strong> to sign and discuss his latest tome, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Group<\/em><\/strong>. This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Please call Book Beat (248) 968-1190 for any further information.<\/p>\n

For more info click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Elmore and Peter Leonard at W. Bloomfield Library, Wed. May 15!<\/a><\/h2>\n

Book Beat will be selling books for legendary author Elmore Leonard<\/strong> and his son\u00a0 Peter Leonard<\/strong> at the West Bloomfield Librar<\/strong>y (in the MAIN Library Meeting Room)\u00a0 on Wednesday, May 15<\/strong> from 7:00-8:30pm<\/strong>. This event is free and open to the public. If you cannot attend this event and would like to reserve\u00a0 signed copies of any of the titles, please call Book Beat (248) 968-1190.<\/p>\n

Where is Bookstore Day?<\/a><\/h2>\n

Perhaps bookstores could take a page from the playbook of record stores. Could publishers and bookstores combine a strategy to create a parallel day of international book mania ? \u00a0What would a bookstore day look like? \u00a0READ MORE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

May Reading Group Selection<\/h2>\n

Book Beat’s May Reading Group Selection is Eudora Welty’s <\/strong>novella The Robber Bridegroom. <\/strong><\/em>The Reading Group will meet on Wednesday, June 5<\/strong> at 7pm<\/strong> in The Goldfish Teahouse<\/strong> (117 W 4th St #101 in downtown Royal Oak). All are welcome! Book’s will be discounted 15% at Book Beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Beat will be closed on Memorial Day- Monday, May 27. We will re-open on Tuesday, May 28 at 10am. Have a great holiday weekend!! Cult hero Ian Svenonius at Book Beat, Wednesday, May 15! We are proud to welcome musician, author and cult hero Ian Svenonius to Book Beat on Wednesday, May 15 from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}