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Sunday, November 8 All day: Harvard Book Store’s annual frequent buyer sale. Customers who have signed up for a Frequent Buyer Card BEFORE November 8th will be eligible to receive 20% off all purchases of new, used and bargain books, as well as data-based Print on Demand titles and non-book items throughout the store.

If today’s fabulous spring weather is inspiring you to get out of the apartment tonight, then you should stop by the Sebastian Junger event we told you about yesterday…and if for some reason you are feeling very studious tonight, why not make it a double header? For those of you who are on the ball, you already bought your tickets to the Jonathan Safran Foer event at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. After this...

This year attendance numbers were drastically down in movie theaters. That was the mantra being blasted at anyone who'd listen. When asked what was causing this, industry experts presented cases such as movie piracy, home movie theaters gaining in popularity, and if pressed enough, the waning quality of movies in general. If you looked hard enough or sampled enough of the releases, however, you would have seen a good number of entertaining and challenging films....

Okay, technically, this entry falls more under the "life advice" rubric of Bostonist. Remember yesterday when Bostonist told you about trying to see Jonathan Safran Foer? Well, you can also go to Boston College tonight at 7:30 PM, Gasson 100, 140 Commonwealth Ave. to see him read from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. So where's the life advice there? When in doubt, check out the college scene. When people read/play/what-have-you at colleges, it's often smaller and better.

Foer's here to promote his new book, Extrememly Loud And Incredibly Close. It's the story of a precocious nine-year-old, Oskar Schell, an inventor dealing with the death of his father in the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Foer's been fairly ubiquitous lately, receiving both good and scathing New York Times reviews and lots of internet chatting over his talent. There's something about his early success that does piss people off, and on the other hand, there's something that's precious about his precociousness that deserves a black mark. And of course, there's the ever interesting query of "did he and his wife Nicole Krauss (and poor woman, her name is very close to one of the authors of The Nanny Diaries, Nicola Krauss, which leads to confusion!) work together on their new novels? Is she the better writer?" But any man who can write a well-recieved book that will be a film starring Frodo (although who made the poster? It's awful!) in August has Bostonist's respect and admiration.