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Michele Harper brings her memoir, "The Beauty in Breaking," to the L.A. Times Book Club.

By Alex McElroy

Today is Monday, May 10, and here are five things to know in Montgomery County. 1. Council Budget Work:  The Council meets today at 9:30 p.m. for a work session on the operating budget. Watch the session live here. 2.  3. Monday, May 10 at noon: Reuben Jackson moderates a discussion between three poets about voice and poetic form—Sandra Beasley, “Made to Explode”; Kim Addonizio, “Now We’re Getting Somewhere”; and Katherine Young, “Woman Drinking Absinthe.” Monday, May 10 at...

Guide to the 2021 Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival Another year, another Gaithersburg Book Festival (GBF). But for the second year in a row, the festival will operate virtually. Gaithersburg Mayor Jud Ashman, the founder of the popular event, spoke to MyMCM about what to expect at this year’s Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival: The Virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival begins Saturday, May 1 and there will be activities for four consecutive weeks. All author discussions (listed below) will pre...

Book World: Vera bears witness to the lives ruined by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post March 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - "For fifteen years Id been waiting for a catastrophe greater than my birth," says the eponymous protagonist of Carol Edgarians new novel "Vera." "The quake gave it to me." By "the quake" Vera means the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Vera, at 15, feels like most things revolve around her experience, including this d...

Book World: 10 books to read in March Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post March 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Festival Days/The Hill We Climb/The Code BreakerLittleBrown/Viking/Simon and Schuster - handout Start your reading engines early this month, because this months book picks have heft - in number of pages, yes, but also in terms of thought and inquiry. Novelists consider the nature of borders and how substances (including oil and drugs) corrupt; journalists examine health care, feminism...

Print If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Even under quarantine, it isn’t always possible to get through all the books you want to read — not with so much Zoom schooling and doom-scrolling to do. As the holidays start creeping up and leisure time starts to stretch, it’s the perfect time to give the right person just the right book, or five or 10. Herewith, a carefully curated list of the most en...