“What a wonderful book-in-praise-of-books! This delightful true story is about a young girl who makes a promise with her father to read out loud together every day for a hundred days. The promise extends way beyond their goal and runs for years. Books play such an important role in our family lives—the gentle twining of …
“Set in a Colorado mining town, this moving historical novel spins the yarn of three generations of women. Nealie Bent is only seventeen during the heyday of gold mining. She is courted by staid, solid Charlie Dumas, but rejects him in favor of dashing Will Spaulding. When Nealie becomes pregnant, Will skips town, and she …
Does anyone else keep a stash of “In Case of Emergency Reads” around? You know, one or two in the car.
“There’s something about this fascinating novel for teens that reminds me of a modern gothic. Told in the first person from the point of view of Chloe, the little sister to captivating Ruby, the book stays on the edge of spooky without any trappings of a ghost story. The girls’ mother is a well-known alcoholic …
Here we are thinking about some wispy fun summer reads and somehow William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair slips into the pile. For this, we owe Brad Craft, one of the used book buyers from University Bookstore in Seattle. The ever-charming Craft blogs that July 18 will be Thackeray’s 200th birthday and he was shocked that there …
Inklings Bookshop owner Susan Richmond shares some great Dad’s day recommendations in Book Scene, a weekly column that she and the store’s staff members write for the Yakima Herald. For the shirt-sleeve gourmet, she recommends the Sasquatch title Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Pacific Coast by Becky Selengut. “Whether or not he knows one …
“Back in the early 1980’s when the Hernandez brothers (Jaime, Gilbert and Mario) launched their comic book series Love and Rockets with a self-published first issue, they could not possibly have known that their work would redefine alternative comics for a new generation . . . As a long-time reader of Love and Rockets, I …
The good readers at the Seattle poetry publisher Wave Books say that summer is one of the best seasons to read poetry. Send them your snapshots of people reading poetry in their hammocks, at the poolside, at the mall, wherever, and they’ll post their favorites here. If your photo is posted, you’ll be entered in …
“Exhausted, discouraged, working every day on a house that he fears will never be a home for him and his increasingly distant wife, seeing a “grizzled old coot” in a window, and realizing it is him, Schooler decides to take a walk. A long, arduous walk. In a remote stretch of coastline that has an …
Beginning as a weekly coffee date between Jennie Shortridge and Garth Stein, the Seattle7Writers has turned into a league of superfriends in the writing world. The group includes nine core members and more than 30 “friends.” To give you a sampling of who we’re dealing with, writers who support the group include Tom Robbins, Jim …
