{"id":1175,"date":"2018-12-31T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:03:52","slug":"special-events-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Special Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<ul id=\"u334698-5\">\n<li id=\"u334698-4\">No special events this week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-8\">Ongoing Exhibits<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u334698-15\">\n<li id=\"u334698-11\"><span id=\"u334698-9\">Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America<\/span> (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31<\/li>\n<li id=\"u334698-14\"><span id=\"u334698-12\">National Center for Children&#8217;s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet,<\/span> Abilene, November 9-January 27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-18\">Sunday, December 24<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-20\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-23\">\n<li id=\"u334698-22\">Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-26\">Monday, December 25<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-28\">Merry Christmas! Hope y\u2019all got books.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-31\">Tuesday, December 26<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-33\">No public events today. Visit your local bookstore and spend the gift cards you received.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-36\">Wednesday, December 27<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-38\">No public events. Today is a good day to begin reading those books you received from the people who really love you &#8212; or just don\u2019t want to see you. \u2019Cause now you&#8217;re busy reading.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-41\">Thursday, December 28<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-43\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-46\">\n<li id=\"u334698-45\">Recycled Reads Bookstore, Workshop: &#8220;Write. Create. Ponder.&#8221; with Bernadette Noll, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u334698-49\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-52\">\n<li id=\"u334698-51\">Half Price Books Mothership, Collectible Conversations: Dallas historian Bob Reitz will discuss the history of Dallas in the 1950s and &#8217;60s through books, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul id=\"u334698-55\">\n<li id=\"u334698-54\">The Wild Detectives, Paul Kix will discuss and sign The Saboteur, in conversation with Sarah Hepola, bestselling author of Blackout, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u334698-58\">McAllen<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-61\">\n<li id=\"u334698-60\">Luna Coffee House, Celebration of Priscilla Celina Suarez, 2015-17 McAllen Poet Laureate and co-founder of the Gloria Anzaldua Legacy Project, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u334698-64\">Sugar Land<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-67\">\n<li id=\"u334698-66\">B&#038;N &#8211; First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u334698-70\">The Woodlands<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-73\">\n<li id=\"u334698-72\">B&#038;N &#8211; Woodlands Mall, Jeremy Holt signs Skinned, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-76\">Friday, December 29<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-78\">No public events today. Finish that book you began reading on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-81\">Saturday, December 30<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-83\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-88\">\n<li id=\"u334698-85\">Half Price Books &#8211; Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<li id=\"u334698-87\">Match Theater, Book release party: The Women of Valour release the 2017 Inspirational Journey, 3PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u334698-91\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-96\">\n<li id=\"u334698-95\">The Twig Book Shop, Melanie Little discusses and signs Experience Strength and Hope, a memoir of recovery, 11AM<br \/><span id=\"u334699\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetwig.com\/event\/melanie-little-experience-strength-and-hope\" id=\"u334700\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"readableLinkWithMediumImage\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"57\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/twig%20event%20ad%20123017.jpg\"  id=\"u334700_img\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-99\">Sunday, December 31<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-101\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u334698-104\">\n<li id=\"u334698-103\">Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u334698-108\">Finish all the great Texas books you didn&#8217;t get around to earlier in the year so you can begin New Year\u2019s with resolutions to discover new ones in 2018!<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u334698-112\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/news-briefs-121017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u334698-109\">Refer to our Best Texas Reads of 2017 list if you need a refresher.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u334698-115\">* * * * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No special events this week Ongoing Exhibits Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31 National Center for Children&#8217;s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27 Sunday, December 24 Dallas Half Price Books Mothership, Local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}