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 have a husband and wife team on the show. These two opened their bookstore in 2006. A seemingly ominous time to open a bookstore with …
‘Lit crawl’ draws bookworms to compete in daylong marathon Four local bookstores took part in this year’s Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Challenge by Evan Thompson for HeraldNet, Tuesday, April 30, 2019 The bookworms began arriving as soon as The Neverending Bookshop opened its doors at 9 a.m. Saturday in Edmonds. They were there to get …
The crew behind Dragons Love Tacos is back with High Five, a colorful exhortation to gimme five!. There’s an annual High Five contest, you see, and everyone from Gigantic the Bear to Octopus Jones is on hand to see who can lay some leather better than anyone else. Naturally, the art is wild and colorful, …
My favorite picture books teach me something new, this one about the first woman filmmaker. I didn’t know the story of Alice Guy-Blaché, but I’m glad this book shared it with me. Women make history! –Karen, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA Even adults can learn something new in the kids’ section of King’s Books and other …
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Oregon Book Awards. The Oregon Book Awards honor the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. Oregon Literary Fellowships provide financial support to Oregon’s emerging and established writers and publishers. ELOISE JARVIS …
“In the years since I was last light-starved, hell-bent on your half-cocked lure I have kept the moon on all night in my own way, by listening, by not forgetting it is there. Small witchery.” Skaja’s debut poetry collection, winner of the Walt Whitman Award, is an unearthing of wilderness and womanhood, from the raw …
From the Island Books tumblr April 23, 2019 Seattle Bookstore Day is in its 5th year running, and we couldn’t be more excited! Island Books plans on celebrating all of April 27th with a schedule of activities (listed below). If you don’t know much about this wonderful holiday, Independent Bookstore Day was started in Northern California …
From the blog surpriseslikespringrain.com April 20, 2019 Hello friends! If you’ve been following along with my Instagram adventures or this blog for a while, then you know that last year I completed the 2018 Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Challenge! *crowd goes wild* For those of you who are new here, let me explain: Every year, …
Fireside Books of Palmer, AK was chosen as Shelf Awareness‘s Chalkboard of the Day: Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska, shared a photo on Facebook of yesterday’s celebrate-two-holidays-on-one-chalkboard creation. The message: “Happy St. George’s Day & Shakespeare’s Birthday! 14% off purchase if you recite a sonnet (or a limerick–we’re not picky)! Spend $25 and we’ll give you a …
Bryce Andrews chronicles the life of a grizzly bear named Willie and her three cubs in Down From The Mountain: the Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear. Andrews, who works a ranch in Montana’s Mission Valley, reports first-hand about the encroachment of both man and bear on each other’s environments. Both a conservation polemic and …
