With the weather cooling and school back in session, we say goodbye to summer reading. But do not mourn the loss of the season. For with the end of summer comes the exciting fall book releases! I’ve been pining for the likes of Lia Habel’s Dearly, Beloved, prequels like James Dashner’s The Kill Order and …
Earlier this month, Klindt’s held our 2nd Got Books? young adult event and I got the chance to play hostess and get to know twelve of my favorite authors. Authors are to me what rock stars are to most, so June is by far my favorite month. Now I get the opportunity to gush about …
Cheers to Klindt’s Booksellers and their YA enthusiast Angela Hanson for putting on a 12-author event Saturday that drew about 650 people to the small store in The Dalles.
Welcome to the revamped NWBookLovers.org! As you take a look around the new site, you’ll see that it feels more like a traditional blog than the old version and that we’ve got a bunch of new voices—all while hanging on to the best of the old site: the Face Outs, the author interviews and essays, …
Anyone who knows me is aware of the fact that I love my YA series, and I’m always whining that my favorite authors just don’t write fast enough to keep me in the lives of my favorite fictional people. You won’t hear me complaining this month, though, with a brand-new series to follow and new …
When Angela Hanson moved to the small Oregon town of The Dalles from Salem nine years ago, Klindt’s Booksellers was her “saving grace.” Hanson spent so much time there that the manager, Tina Ontiveros, finally asked if the store could hire her so she wouldn’t go broke buying books. While Hanson says she’s reputed to …
