At the Finish For the people of Boston and runners who love them. In flat black River Boylston lined with willows of cheering people swim schools of runners carried on aching strides then staggering spawned out drunk on dead tired joy through two city blocks of smiles congratulations nice job how ya doin? We …
“This new book on vegetable gardening in the PNW is the perfect guide to pick up right now to get started on our gardens! Forkner, an editor at Pacific Horticulture magazine, has done a superb job of gathering pertinent information for this fantastic growing area and the types of vegetables we can plant here. There …
“This marvelous little book is a fantastic step into the worlds of Quantum Theory and the ‘multiverse,’ or M-theory. In easy-to-read layperson’s terms, and with superb, brightly colored illustrations, Hawking and Mlodinow take us step-by-step through many questions of the universe and the ideas they believe are behind Einstein’s ‘Theory of Everything.’ In awe of …
Today’s the day that 25,000 volunteers across the United States will hand out 500,000 free paperback books (Ireland and Germany and Britain—where a million books will be handed out—are also participating). ”It’s like an intellectual Halloween, only better,” Anna Quindlen, World Book Night’s honorary chairwoman, told USA Today.
“E. B. White created some of the most endearing and lovable characters in children’s literature. His stories of Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web resonate and will endure over decades. This carefully researched and delicately written biography by Michael Sims reverently documents White’s life from his adventurous childhood loving farm animals, to being one of the …
“While I grew up on the western edge of the Chicago suburbs, I still found much of my own story of growing up on the pages of Findling’s memoir. Her youth is perhaps the one I imagined myself having, in a land of ocean beaches and pine trees. There is more to it than the …
Last week The Corvallis Gazette-Times, local rag of of Grass Roots Books & Music, published a panel by a local cartoonist that paid tribute to “the wonderfulness of independent bookstores,” as Grass Roots’s Pamela Moeller put it. It also happened to spin the whole shop local/buy Amazon thing, which we can at least enjoy in …
“I admire a story that wrecks me, and The Fault in Our Stars is one such beast. Cancer’s a dominant character, but love is more so. By no means an easy read, this is a story to read. Hazel, the narrator, is a quick-witted teenager, a girl learning to navigate herself, her sickness, her family …
When Annie Bloom’s Books‘ February newsletter arrived promoting ”books that are great for Valentine’s gifts, or that help explain one of life’s most powerful feelings” (it’s love they’re talking about), we poked around to see what other bookstores were up to in support of—or at least in response to—this chocolate-powered, pollen-laden lover’s holiday.
“This is a wonderful collection of essays and memorials where Berry ‘pays the debt’ he owes to the writers who have been a part of his literary life. These are touching tributes and thoughtful accounts of his writing life. I most appreciated his thoughts on how he has tried to honor his native landscape through …
