I know I shouldn’t be finding new sources for inspiration for books I need to read; I already have stacks and stacks of books to decide from when I finally get to sit down and indulge in pleasure reading. But I have a new fascination, and I want to share. Late Night Library is full of …
You’re a booklover. You like to be on top of new releases, what’s happening in the industry, and all the buzz about books. If you haven’t already signed up to subscribe to Shelf Awareness, a free booklovers’ e-newsletter, they are offering a great incentive. Shelf Awareness is giving away a free book every day in …
Flavorwire has a slideshow of “20 Photos of Famous Authors in Awesome Costumes.” Among my favorites are Susan Sontag dressed as a teddy bear, Jeffrey Eugenides as Henry James (from a Vogue photoshoot!), and Maya Angelou in a stunning slitted dress as “Miss Calypso.” For Halloween, I’ve dressed as characters from books. I can only find …
Stephen King’s new novel, Doctor Sleep, is a sequel to The Shining. It inspired reviewers from the New York Times to USA Today to pun in their titles. Even funnier is what the bloggers at real estate website movoto.com have been up to. They sent nwbooklovers the following email: “Since Stephen King’s The Shining sequel …
Zombie fan? Nick Hoult fan (About a Boy, the British television series Skins, The Weather Man, the forthcoming Jack the Giant Slayer)? Well, Nick Hoult as a zombie with a regenerating conscience and growing heart (think The Grinch with a little love medicine) sells a couple of tickets in this family.
Oregon Writers Colony has chosen the inaugural title for its new book club. It’s Disorder by Portland author Dan DeWeese. OWC director James Bernard Frost describes Disorder as a hidden treasure.”It’s not something you would find on your own,” he says. “You won’t see it on the front table of Barnes & Noble. It was written, …
World-renowned Seattle photographer and animal rescue advocate Robin Layton has recently released her first book, A Letter to My Dog: Notes to Our Best Friends. Her own rescue pup, Monkey, not only landed the cover gig for the book, but the starring role in this entertaining and endearing video too. Look at his jammies!
Walking around the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show this year, I had a task at hand. I needed to corner my fellow book-loving cohorts and ask “What’s the one book you read this year that floored you?” If you want to see a book lover stopped in his tracks, just ask that question. He’ll …
THE weekend for books in the Pacific Northwest is happening right now, as in today and tomorrow and the next day. If you’re here, you know why: the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Tradeshow in Tacoma from Oct. 13-15 and Wordstock in Portland from Oct. 11-15. We’ll get to the Tradeshow in another post, but let’s …
