Bookmarks

This weekend, Ukazoo has it going on strong with 3 different events, all of them super brilliant.
For starters, there’s Diving Belle on Friday evening from 6 -8pm. Two girls, a guitar and violin producing some of the sweetest, baddest music you’ve never heard in a bookstore. These two are simply incredible; check out [...]

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So your outside… finally. The snow is gone… finally. And your favorite park bench beckons. What are some good “park-bench-reads?”
How about…
1) Devil in the White City (Erik Larson) – the turn of the century Chicago Worlds’s Fair meets a demented serial killer. Reads like fiction but really happened.
2) Plague Ship (Clive [...]

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Today: Feb. 9, the store is closing at 7pm due to weather.  Get caught up on your reading, and be prepared to shovel out again. Tonight: hot cocoa, a book, and a warm blanket.  I should finish my first Florida book with ease, Baja Florida by Bob Morris. Thinking of warm places…..

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We are open today. With another pending storm watch here and Facebook for updates on store closings. Please be careful if you do have to/happen to be out.

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Ukazoo is closing at 6pm today (Friday Feb 5). Be safe out there. A great day to catch up on some reading.

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The third books of the Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo trilogy titled the The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest is now in store, so we now have all three books available. These will not last long. I need to get to the second one myself, but I have Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child’s Cemetery [...]

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I read Jeanette Walls’ Half Broke Horses because I loved The Glass Castle so much.
I want to compare the two books, but I can’t.
The Glass Castle is a personal story,  sometimes so intimate I was amazed she shared it with us. I can only imagine that reading Glass Castle is a little like reading Wall’s [...]

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To all of you who shopped here, told your friends about us, sold us books, held events at Ukazoo and work here, I send you a heart felt thanks. Running an independent bookstore these days is a formidable task at best. But we have great hope in the future and  see a wonderful 2010 because [...]

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There are still lots to choose from for the Yuletide season at Ukazoo. We are stocking books daily to keep up with demand. Some of the fun stuff for this season. Strange Maps:An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (check out their blog too)
We have Vampire Haiku and Zombie Haiku both by Ryan Mecum. A local [...]

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The 81st Annual Academy Awards airs tonight at 8, and being movie geeks, almost as much as we are book geeks, we’ve got our fingers crossed for our favorites.  It’s no surprise that our favorites started out on the written page.
Nominated for Best Picture is The Reader, based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink. Then, [...]

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