Though an online book glows in the dark, it can't be shredded to make a papier-mâché wig or taped to a shoe to replace an ice skate. Peruse useful reading material with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of books, drinks, and sandwiches at Watermark Books and Café on Douglas Avenue. This Groupon is valid for in-store purchases only and is not valid toward magazines, newspapers, or gift cards.
Watermark Books and Café offers hungry bellies food and drink while hungry brains guzzle books. The eclectic selection includes classic tomes (Watermark's summer book club is focusing on the Brontë sisters), modern fiction, and nearly any other pages ever sewn between a cover (click here to search for books). Beatrice and Virgil, the new book by the author of Life of Pi, makes a superb companion to critiquing Watermark’s chicken-salad translation of The Iliad (served with tarragon, chopped green onions, and walnuts). Or stay awake while hunting for staff picks with a caramel latte ($2.95/12 ounces, $3.95/16 ounces) with as many as a dozen extra shots ($0.75 each), or a specialty drink ($3.75/$4.75) such as the Jane Eyre, which mixes chocolate, coconut, and almond flavors with steamed milk and espresso.
Staffed by enthusiastic booklovers, Watermark makes books come alive not by zapping them during lightning storms but by hosting book signings with national and local authors and fostering diverse book clubs, such as Shakespeare Aloud and French Book Club. Bring budding minds to Watermark at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday mornings for picture-book story time. Click here to see a complete list of Watermark's events.
Groupon Says
Novel Ideas
Watermark Books and Café houses some of the greatest works ever committed to paper, from Oliver Twist to Da Vinci Code II: Code Dependency. If you want to enter the ranks of the great novelists, here is a list of book ideas that have never been used:
- A down-on-his-luck boxer comes out of retirement to box his clone.
- A young woman has to balance a career and a family and a secret life as a Juggalo.
- A story unfolds in a dystopian alternate universe where the baby-suffrage movement never occurred.
- A man struggles with the isolation he feels every day in our sterile, modern world. Also, he is a bounty hunter.
- Write a novel based on the classic film, Gone with the Wind.
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