{"id":65606,"date":"2016-10-04T14:26:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=65606"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:29:45","slug":"october-reading-group-selection-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2016\/10\/04\/october-reading-group-selection-3\/","title":{"rendered":"October Reading Group Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/9780812988079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-65607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/9780812988079-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"9780812988079\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Book Beat Reading Group selection for October is <em><strong>Slade House<\/strong><\/em> by <strong>David Mitchell<\/strong>. The Reading Group will meet on <strong>Wednesday, October 26<\/strong> at <strong>7pm<\/strong> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/goldfishtea.com\/\">Goldfish Tea Room<\/a> (<span class=\"_Xbe\">117 W 4th St #101, Royal Oak, MI 48067<\/span>). Reading Group selections are discounted 15% at Book Beat. For more information, please call (248) 968-1190. All are welcome!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson\u2019s Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King\u2019s <i>The Shining,<\/i> [Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.\u201d<b>\u2014<i>San Francisco Chronicle<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you\u2019ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won\u2019t want to leave. Later, you\u2019ll find that you can\u2019t. Every nine years, the house\u2019s residents\u2014an odd brother and sister\u2014extend a unique invitation to someone who\u2019s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it\u2019s already too late. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story\u2014as only David Mitchell could imagine it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human, <i>Slade House<\/i> is the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.\u201d<b>\u2014<i>The Huffington Post<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>David Mitchell<\/b> is the award-winning and bestselling author of <i>Slade House,\u00a0The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, <\/i>and<i> Ghostwritten<\/i>. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named\u00a0one of the 100 most influential people in the world by <i>Time<\/i>\u00a0in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book Beat Reading Group selection for October is Slade House by David Mitchell. The Reading Group will meet on Wednesday, October 26 at 7pm in the Goldfish Tea Room (117 W 4th St #101, Royal Oak, MI 48067). Reading Group selections are discounted 15% at Book Beat. For more information, please call (248) 968-1190. 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