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Sep

3

2021

The Storefront

“Romance: The Genre of Hope”

From Rebel Heart Books in Jacksonville, OR. By Eileen Bobek I didn’t always carry Romance at Rebel Heart. When I was younger, I used to read the Romance books that my mother had, kept behind the wired door of her bedside table: Nora Roberts, Lavyrle Spencer, Catherine Coulter and my all time favorite, Kathleen Woodiwiss’s The Wolf and the Dove (I still have my old battered copy with the cover taped on). In college, I stopped reading Romance though I can’t …

Sep

2

2021

Thursday Themes

Bestseller Spotlight: Local Connections

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. While big, national preorder campaigns for much-anticipated fall titles served up some fresh titles (like this and this) for the bestseller list, we also noticed that books with local connections …

Sep

1

2021

Face Out

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

… speaking of fantastic reads, Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut, arrives this week. Afterparties is a collection of loosely connected stories about Cambodian-Americans. They are all crafting new identities (or trying to find identities) in America, but the ghosts of the ancestors and the haunting memories of their homeland are never far away. So’s stories are both …

Aug

31

2021

One Nightstand

The Vivaldi Cipher by Gary McAvoy

In the last ten months, I have devoured four books by [Bremerton, WA] author Gary McAvoy. His series is called The Magdalen Chronicles. Book 4 is entitled The Vivaldi Cipher that includes a cameo appearance by composer Antonio Vivaldi. [Here is the link for Book 1: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781954123021 ] The story opens, briefly, in The Vatican …

Aug

30

2021

Face Out

The Sneaking, Hiding, Vibrating Creature by Nathan Pyle

Here’s something a little light. Nathan Pyle’s Strange Planet is back with The Sneaking, Hiding, Vibrating Creature. That’s right. Pyle’s big-eyed aliens have discovered the domestic cat, and their deadpan observations are both utterly alien and completely on-the-nose. A book both kids and adults can enjoy! And you can read it to your cat, who won’t …

Aug

27

2021

Borrowed Copy

Why We Love Dolly Parton
(and Not Jeff Bezos)

From Third Street Books, McMinnville, OR: A few weeks ago, Jeff Bezos and three other humans flew into space for a brief moment. Much was made of this event. A few days later, a report was released here that addresses Amazon’s share of the book market. It was sobering, to say the least (more on this below). …

Aug

26

2021

Thursday Themes

Bestseller Spotlight: Something Blue

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. Big thanks to Cannon Beach Books of Cannon Beach, OR for the idea. So many of the bestsellers had blue elements, I had to be a little subjective when making …

Aug

25

2021

Face Out

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

I have been accused on more than one occasion of liking only weird depressing books, but I’d like to think that my love of this, the only book by one of the greatest surrealists of the 20th century, proves that I also like books that are just weird. Gleefully anarchic and stubbornly strange– a delightful …

Aug

24

2021

The Storefront

Edmonds Bookshop Announces Ownership Transition

Congratulations to Michelle Bear, assistant manager and soon-to-be owner of Edmonds Bookshop in Edmonds, WA! Congratulations, too, to Mary Kay Sneeringer and David Brewster, who owned the store for twenty years. The good news broke in the Seattle Times August 18, 2021. As the Edmonds Bookshop team relates in a piece in My Edmonds News, …

Aug

23

2021

Face Out

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

So if there wasn’t enough tension and the stakes weren’t high enough in Casey McQuiston’s Red, White, and Royal Blue (there was, and they were) now we’re given One Last Stop: a girl lost in time and a romance that’s destined to be a missed connection. Good to the last drop! Just like RW&RB it …

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