Happy new year, readers! Do you make reading resolutions? I’ve heard from several folks who set a goal for number of books read in 2018 and others who resolved to read award winners. Does anyone resolve to read outside their comfort zone? Maybe reading the classics you were assigned in high school? How about reading more underrepresented voices? Is anyone making a resolution to have enough reading glasses that they won’t have to go searching for a pair in 2019? …
Oluo’s timely and powerful book posits that we need to talk about race but often don’t because we are afraid we will get it wrong, not know enough, not know how to answer common arguments, or otherwise cause more harm than good. In So You Want to Talk About Race, she uses straightforward language, clear …
Based on the true story of 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, this beautiful novel is vivid, heartwrenching, and undeniably gorgeous. Alternating between Artemisia’s time told in stunning verse and the tales of ancient heroines Judith and Susanna, Blood Water Paint is the truly magnificent tale of a young woman battling to be heard in a …
Leah Dieterich lays all of her insecurities and uncertainties excruciatingly bare in the excavation of her marriage. Using compelling prose, she peels back the surface of everything, and it is mesmerizing; she digs until she understands what she feels, what she wants, and why she wants it. Exploring open marriage, bisexuality, honesty, and fear, this …
Griffith, the author of bestselling fantasy novel Hild, gives us a compulsive psychological thriller and an important contribution to disability literature in her new novel. In the course of a week, Mara’s wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. To keep herself from spiraling, Mara launches herself to the front lines of …
Here’s hoping you get to rip into some great book presents today. Happy reading and Merry Christmas!
An insight into more than just the precepts of Bodhisattva, it’s also an inquiry into the life lived by a master. Those experiences and anecdotes that Anderson makes beg the question of what if…He begs you to imagine scenarios where you might initially think you would make one decision, and then turns it on its …
Some humor from A Good Book in Sumner, WA: Overheard at The Store NADIA: Hello, welcome to the bookstore. Can I help you—oh, you’re that street artist fellow. I didn’t recognize you without all the gold paint. MIME: . . . NADIA: You’re looking for a book? . . . A big book? . . …
Being as new to the Pacific Northwest as I am, I’ve been studying up on my local history. I’m glad that I put A Deadly Wind on my list (It doesn’t hurt that I’m also a fan of disaster narratives in general). Not just a well researched and well written account of this once in …
[Here’s an example] of quirky illustrations and marvelous set pieces. Torben Kuhlmann has been consistently been putting out stunningly illustrated books about small creatures doing great feats of aeronautics and engineering. Most recently, it’s Edison, the story of two mice who create a to-scale submersible in order to search for a sunken treasure. That’s right. A …
