Letter to Santa

Please read this piece from the Baltimore Sun blog, written by Gail Farrelly:

Excerpt:

Dear Santa, all during 2009 I've been nice (okay, okay, I was a little naughty, but only once or twice!), and now I have a very special request. Can you figure out a way to save independent bookstores? More and more of them are closing, and it's very scary.

Do you have a favorite indie at the North Pole, Santa? I hope you do, because a bookstore like that is a fabulous place to be -- surrounded by books and book lovers -- on a cold, snowy day.

Read full piece here

Book Stall honored in the Huffington Post

Praveen Madan has written a wonderful article on the importance of independent booksellers. It is a cogent and heartfelt defense of an irreplaceable community institution. And to top it off, she acknowledges the Book Stall and other stores like it for our "warmth, generosity, and sharing spirit." Read the whole article here.

Sept. 11 at 6:30 pm - Foie Gras Wars with Mark Caro

Update: Congrats to Mark Caro on being named a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award!

Please weigh in on the Foie Gras debacle of 2005, and tell us if you were on Team Tramonto or Team Trotter. Mark Caro, author of 'The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-year-old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight,' will visit the Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka on Friday, September 11. Corrected time is 6:30 pm to talk about his book, and how his Chicago Tribune front-page story ignited a fierce clash between chefs, politicians, farmers and activists. Caro is also the recent winner of the Great Lakes Book Awards for General Books. Tell us what YOU think...

And while you're thinking with your stomach, check out these Chicago foodie blogs:

http://www.chicagofoodies.com/
http://www.chicagogluttons.com/
http://www.urbanspoon.com/c/2/Chicago-restaurants.html/

Links to our friends

Family Awareness Network

Pritzker Military Library

Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood

The Women's Exchange