Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!
May you have a day filled with peace, love, and books!
Happy 4th of July!
A proposed plan for the holiday, in book covers: What book covers would you choose to represent Independence Day?
Queen Anne Book Company Supports Books to Prisoners
In the Spring of 2019, troubling news rapidly spread through the Washington state book community that the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) had quietly banned free, used books from being mailed to prisoners through non-profit organizations like Seattle’s Books to Prisoners. After public outcry and the investigative journalism of Joseph O’Sullivan of the Seattle …
Podcast Features Laura and Bruce DeLaney of Rediscovered Books
From the Dietz Agency website on April 25, 2019 We are off and running with season six and we have some great guests on the docket. We start off with Bruce and Laura DeLaney who own Rediscovered Books in the heart of downtown Boise. I really enjoyed the conversation we had. It’s always fun to …
It’s OK to Feel Things Deeply by Carissa Potter
This tender work comes to us in the style of a zine; the perfect open letter to anyone who is or has struggled with mental illness. Potter brings us brilliant advice for the days when self care becomes increasingly difficult, and your mind seems to get away from you. This is a gem full of …
Happy Labor Day!
Here’s hoping you’ve enjoyed your Labor Day weekend! Some of us have to work on this holiday, but hopefully all of us get a little time to enjoy a good book. What are you reading?
Books Gave Us Gravity: A Postcard from the Edge
Non-fiction for the cold, hard facts, fiction for flights of fancy. One grounds you while the other sets you spinning. Most of the time, maybe, but my experience this week perfectly inverts that paradigm. I’ve been reading a brand-new book from Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris, who is best known as the filmmaker behind such projects …
Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña
Iturbide is an amazing Mexican photographer who achieves poetry through what she captures with her camera. This graphic novel lets you wander with her through Mexico, India, the birds, and her thoughts. I discovered her with this book and fell immediately in love with her story and her pictures. –-Stephanie Silva, Queen Anne Book Company, …
Former Seattle Mystery Bookshop Booksellers Touch Base
Seattle Mystery Bookshop closed at the end of September 2017, but it lives on in the hearts and memories of many fans. On April 1, former customers were delighted to find an update to the store’s blog– a fresh edition of the Newzine. (Really– it’s not an April Fool’s joke.) We are all still reading, …
Incredible “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” Cake
Carlo’s Bakery, a family-owned bakery with locations from California to Texas to São Paulo, Brazil– including one in Times Square– created this amazing cake to celebrate the New World arrival of the blockbuster theatrical hit “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” The production opens on Broadway on April 22, 2018. I can’t believe the detail on …
