(Editor’s Note: We’re re-posting this interview with veteran Bainbridge Island bookseller Mary Gleysteen on the occasion of her retirement from Eagle Harbor Book Company. The store’s staff posted a tribute and farewell to her here and we talked with some other unhappy people here.) Mary Gleysteen says it was reading Song of Solomon by Toni …
“When 13-year-old Miles O’Malley discovers a strange sea creature at low tide, he finds himself catapulted to celebrity status. A terrific coming-of-age story set in the Puget Sound, this is one of those first novels that keeps me excited about bookselling!”—Mary Kay, Edmonds Bookshop, Edmonds, WA
The window display at Edmonds Bookshop will include live readers for the next 55 hours—from today until Sunday. The store is hosting a Rock’n’Read Marathon, with students from Edmonds-Woodway and Meadowdale high schools reading books, magazines and Kindles in the store’s front window for 30-minute intervals. Sitting in the store’s rocking chair while in the window …
“If independent bookstores are supposed to be dying, no one has informed the folks at Edmonds Bookshop.” So begins the Edmonds Patch in its “Business of the Week” profile of the nearly 40-year mainstay of the Puget Sound town.
