After a fast and furious Flowertown Festival weekend and we can’t begin to tell you how much FUN we’ve had with y’all and with our signing authors Friday and Saturday. Our thanks to Bob Spearman, Linda Lovely, Kerry Peresta and Stuart Bennett, who all helped make this year’s festival our best ever!
But now, we’re back to looking ahead to the horizon and all that’s headed this way. This month is National Poetry Month, and Easter happens in the middle of the month (check out our Easter Egg “Not a Hunt” happening April 15th, the day before Easter.
April is also the month each year when indie bookstores like ours celebrate national Independent Bookstore Day. That takes place the last Saturday of the month (April 30th) and we have an incredible lineup of authors speaking and signing in our Book Fair on the Square that day, so mark those calendars!
Get a look at all the fun headed your way, and below that, our book picks for this week’s State by State list as we travel through Indiana. The highway through Indiana may be boring, but the books rock!
See you on Main Street…
MONDAY Main Street Writes
April 4 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm VIRTUAL
For the inner writer in all of us, our regular Monday evening writers group! Join us via the Zoom link below and get your writing on track! See you soon — and Write ON! Find out more »
WEDNESDAY Stories on the Square
April 6 @ 9:30 am – 10:00 am
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join us every WEDNESDAY morning at 9:30 a.m. for “Stories on the Square, our outdoor storytime adventure – kids of all ages welcome! Treats served and student discounts to ALL attendees! Find out more »
SATURDAY Book Signing:
Meet Jack Russell and Fox World
April 9 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
“I hope that everyone who cares about the future of planet Earth will fight to save places like Fox World’s forest and its inhabitants.” – Dr. Jane Goodall MEET author Jack Russell, the author of the entertaining and insightful Fox World. Based on true events, Fox World takes the reader under the canopy of an urban forest for a…Find out more »
BSUNDAY Book Signing / Talk:
Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth
April 10 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC 29483 + Google Map
We are honored to host this signing and book discussion around the brand new release from Charleston’s own Evening Post Books: Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth. You’ll get to meet Summerville’s own Herb Frazier as well as contributing authors from the project, and we plan to engage in a substantive discussion… don’t miss this one, folks…Find out more »
NEXT WEEK
Thriller Book Club: The Fields by Erin Young
April 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young’s The Fields is a dynamite debut–crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don’t stay buried…Find out more »
Easter Egg “Not-A-Hunt”
April 16 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Here’s an egg-cellent chance to win egg-citing prizes during our egg-straordinary “Not a Hunt” — We’re putting all our eggs in one basket (should I stop now?) and each in-store purchase wins you an egg! Besides a couple of surprise sweet treats inside each egg…Find out more »
Living Large Book Club: Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
April 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
We’re thrilled to have a chance to chat about this wonderful book Grounds-keeping by Lee Cole – join us live – refreshments will be served! A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK – An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams–this is an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations (Ann Patchett,…Find out more »
Pulpwood Queens Bookclub:
The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney
April 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
The wonderful book everyone’s talking about! Come join the discussion and enjoy free treats and a chance to ask the author your burning questions! WHEN AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHISKY DRINKING, PIANO PRODIGY ENCOUNTERS A WEALTHY FAMILY POSSESSING SUPERNATURAL BEAUTY, HER ENSUING OBSESSION UNLEASHES FAMILY SECRETS AND A CATACLYSMIC PLAGUE OF CICADAS. The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence, Georgia, a natural event with supernatural repercussions, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this…Find out more »
Independent Bookstore Day 2022:
Book Fair on the Square!!!
April 30 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
One day. Hundreds of bookstores. Fifty states. Join the celebration! Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. At Main Street Reads we’ll…Find out more »
State by State Week 14: Indiana Wants Me
Join the state-by-state reading fun with Main Street Reads all year long! Throughout the year we’re your state-by-state travel guide, with a curated book list each week, suggesting books from the featured “State of the Week.” Each list includes both fiction and non-fiction, with adult and young reader titles so families can join the fun together! View the list HERE or click on the image below…
