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Albina Pageturners Book Club

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

This month’s book is The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Check at the Albina Branch Library for free copies of this book and upcoming selections.

Free

A Kids Book About Body Image

The Riveter 501 SE 14th Ave, Portland

Author and psychotherapist Rebecca Alexander reads and signs copies of her new book, A Kids Book About Body Image, helping kids of all races, genders, and sizes have a better understanding of body image and tune out the noise and unhealthy messaging that often surrounds the topic.

$5 – $20

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club will alternate monthly between Science Fiction and Fantasy. January will be a Fantasy Pick. We will discuss Storm Front by Jim Butcher. In this first book in the offbeat Dresden Files, readers are introduced to Harry Dresden, a wizard with a consulting practice in modern-day Chicago. Dresdens profession offers him little money, lots of mockery, the suspicion of his magical colleagues, and plenty of danger. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club.

Free

Collage Night

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

Join us for the return of Collage Night, on the second Tuesday of the month. Glue sticks, scissors and collage materials will be provided. Free and open to the public.

Free

Science Fiction Book Group

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

This month our group meets to discuss The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Free

Reading: W.H. “Bill” Cameron and J.S. James

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon mystery authors W.H. "Bill" Cameron and J.S. James. Crossroad is Oregon author W.H. Cameron's latest mystery. Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage. There is no one to claim the infant, nor a clear indication she was even part of the accident. The crash offers plenty…

Free

Dan Raphael

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

We are pleased to welcome Portland poet Dan Raphael to read from his new books of poems, Manything, published by Unlikely Books. Raphael is a master of verse and performance, and this post-Beat tome contains sixty-five of his wild, vivid trips-in-verse. Raphael was born in Pittsburgh and attended Cornell University, Bowling Green State University, and Western Washington University. Since the 1970s, he has lived in the Northwest, working and sharing the fruits of his labor as a poet, literary activist, performer, editor, and reading host. He retired from the Oregon DMV after thirty-three years and lives in Portland with his wife Melba and more than 400 plant varieties. Most Wednesdays he writes and records a “current events poem” for the KBOO evening news. Raphael has…

Free

Collisions: Short Story Workshop

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

In this fiction workshop, we will explore how to use all manner of combustible collisions, both small and large, as generative fuel. Have a slew of disparate ideas stewing in your brain? We’ll investigate the power of unexpected pairings—how colliding seemingly unrelated images or ideas can spark something entirely original and point your work forward. You will build your own stories and receive the focused attention of a workshop environment. All levels Josha Nathan is a 2017 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient. He earned his MFA at the University of Oregon and has taught at several institutions, including Portland Community College. January 14–February 18, 2020 Tuesdays, 7:00–9:00 p.m. (six sessions) Instructor: Josha Nathan For writers at all levels

$275

Astrology for Real Relationships

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

When it comes to friendship, family, and romance, we all want the same things: to love and be loved, to communicate, to fight fair, and to feel okay in our own skin. Jessica Lanyadoo’s Astrology for Real Relationships (Ten Speed) is a modern, practical guide that will help you understand your blind spots, blocks, and fears so you can make choices that leave you happy and fulfilled. Full of real talk about attraction, dating, sex, frenemies, self-love, and more, this book will help you build and maintain strong connections and get what you really want in relationships, not what you think you should want.

Free