“I’ve enjoyed Edward Rutherfurd’s books ever since he came out with Sarum back in 1987. What a great fictional history of Salisbury Cathedral! This year my early autumn beach bag may very well contain his latest book, Paris. This novel, like Sarum, spans hundreds of years, telling the story of the city through the lives of four families. …
Shelf Awareness can boast more than 250,000 subscribed readers between two regular newsletters that reach the inboxes of industry professionals and book lovers across the country day after day, but don’t think the staff have forgotten that they are a part of their own local reading community. The Shelfers made their own “Image of the …
Author Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife, The Littlest Hitler) delivered the following speech at the reading celebrating Elliott Bay Book Company’s 40th Anniversary on June 30, 2013. Before I address the subject of Elliott Bay Book Company’s future, I’d like to acknowledge a few people. First, the extraordinarily well-read, friendly, tireless, generous, and in one particular …
Ten years ago, when we gathered at Elliott Bay Book Company in Pioneer Square in Seattle to toast the store’s 30th anniversary, owner Peter Aaron said he would see us all at the 40th anniversary party. This weekend, at Elliott Bay’s new home on Capitol Hill, hundreds of booksellers, authors, and community supporters gathered for …
Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre has only a few more shows before the end of the run of “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” a fantastic stage adaptation of Spokane author Jess Walter’s novel. The last show is the Sunday matinee on Sunday, June 30 at 2:00. If you are in Seattle and can, buy tickets …
The biggest selling book in the independent Northwest this past holiday season was The Oatmeal’s How To Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You. (“Kneading on you: You may think this is a sign of affection, but your cat is actually checking your internal organs for weakness.”) The Oatmeal is actually Matthew Inman, of Seattle, …
The Pacific Northwest is full of talented cookbook authors and chefs. Now home cooks can make favorite restaurant recipes in their own kitchens. Your local independent bookstore can get you the Pacific Northwest cookbooks you want, but foodie bibliophiles should also make the pilgrimage to cookbook-focused indie Book Larder in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. …
The day I decided to write Dishing Up Washington, a cookbook that celebrates the state’s foodways through recipes and stories, I went to my neighborhood farmers’ market. It’s on Seattle’s Phinney Ridge, in the northern part of the city, near the giant windmill sign that keeps watch over the city’s famous Red Mill Burgers. From …
“Seattle resident Timothy Egan digs into his hometown’s past with the superlative Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher. His biography of the photographer Edward Curtis (1868-1952) mesmerizes—it’s instructive, entertaining and a joy to read.”—from Tom Lavoie’s review in today’s Shelf Awareness
“This charming and moving picture book is William Joyce at the top of his form. A tribute to a man who loved books and lived his life devoted to them. Joyce’s marvelous illustrations carry the story along magically. This is the perfect book to show the wonder of reading to a little one and to …
