Borrowed Copy

A Face Out from Obama’s Picks: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

An astronaut wakes up with amnesia, and discovers he is on a mission to save the world. This book is a return to what made The Martian such a great read. There’s a sarcastic but earnest narrator, many a life-threatening disaster, and so very much clearly and cleverly explained science. Once I started reading it, I could not stop. – Nate, Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA President Obama’s summer reading list can help you focus your browsing if you’ve felt overwhelmed by all …

Jul 23, 2021

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2021

Thursday Themes

Bestseller Spotlight: Titles Making Judgments

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. Several of the books that rose to the top of readers’ stacks this week have judgment or reviews worked into the titles. The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green (Hardcover Nonfiction #10) …

Jul

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2021

One Nightstand

My Place at the Table: A Recipe for
a Delicious Life in Paris
by Alexander Lobrano

Last night I read this wonderful book. The story of a little boy in CT who grows up to be a restaurant critic in Paris, then at Gourmet magazine (oh how I miss that publication). If you love food & dining like I do, you will devour this in one sitting. James Beard, Julia Child, …

Jul

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2021

Borrowed Copy

Green Bean Books’ “Ways to Make Sunshine” Campaign

From Oregon Live July 10, 2021 Portland-raised author Renée Watson is the inspiration for a campaign that Portland bookstore Green Bean Books is running on behalf of Vernon Elementary School this summer. The campaign’s goal: To sell 275 copies of Watson’s delightful chapter book Ways to Make Sunshine, which follows a Black girl growing up …

Jul

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2021

Face Out

We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

If you’ve ever struggled to lead a creatively satisfying professional life, there’s a good chance Cass’s story will resonate. Cass’s chosen career path? Theater. After an entire decade of working on “weird downtown plays” as a no-name playwright in NYC, she wins an award along with $50,000 and lands herself an off-Broadway debut. She’s 33 …

Jul

16

2021

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NW Voices

How I Saved a Bookstore and a Bookstore Saved Me

Amy Kane, who owns the bookstore in Haines, the tiny Alaska town where I live, tells everyone that my books, especially the most recent one, Of Bears and Ballots, published June 30, 2020, saved her business during the pandemic, but really, The Bookstore saved me. “Bottom line is without that book we wouldn’t be here,” …

Jul

15

2021

Thursday Themes

Bestseller Spotlight: Where the Wild (and Tamed) Things Are

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. Many of this week’s list’s titles have wonderful wild and tamed animals. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy Hardcover Nonfiction #3 Broken Horses by …

Jul

14

2021

Face Out

Good Company
by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

From the author of The Nest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s newest novel, Good Company, opens with main character, Flora, finding the wedding ring her husband Julian told her he’d lost years ago. Dropped into the middle, a moment in time that will affect the future and shade the past, Sweeney immediately pulled me into the narrative. I …

Jul

13

2021

Face Out

The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin

Watch Rachel Griffin talk about her book, The Nature of Witches A magical YA debut about accepting and even embracing changes in yourself. The Nature of Witches is also a love letter to our planet, showing readers how to appreciate what each season has to offer us, to see the beauty in the world we …

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2021

Face Out

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever

Important traveller tip: Dinner at the Bozeman airport after 5pm is either food at one or two unremarkable (and overly crowded) eateries or a microwaved Hot Pocket. We got the last two pockets. This is the sort of thing that Bourdain does not cover in his recent book. –Mark Teppo, A Good Book, Sumner, WA …

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