I still haven’t caught up on emails from my time away at Book Expo America (BEA) in New York City last week, and it will probably be a several weeks before I get through all the magnificent books I picked up, but I thought I’d share some of my photos and experiences from my first day …
Last week, hundreds of booksellers, authors, and publishers converged on Seattle for the American Booksellers Association’s ninth annual Winter Institute (Wi9), an industry celebration and education opportunity. Was your favorite local bookseller there? Enjoy some photos from the Elliott Bay Book Company-hosted opening ceremonies to get a taste of the spirit of the event.
A perfect start for your summer reading, He’s Gone is about love, loss, marriage, and the secrets we all keep. I’ve been a Deb Caletti fan for years, since that very first hot pink ARC of The Queen of Everything arrived at the store in the early ‘00s. It was the dawn of true young …
Ah, BEA. I could feel the gravitational pull of Javits from our hotel. For 3 whole days, Javits Convention Center in New York, New York, that angular, light-filled building, was packed with brilliant booksellers whose brains swim in letters and words, authors who make it all possible, and the wily publishers and publicists who bring …
I was caught up in The Flight of Gemma Hardy, by Margot Livesey, when this passage stopped me cold and made me remember a scene from the children’s bookstore I worked in: “I was at the kitchen door when Robin started to scream. A few seconds later he barreled into me, his cheeks scarlet. In …
Ah, Ray. Like most people my age, I discovered Ray Bradbury in high school. It was Mr. Beckman’s English class, to be precise, at Pacific High School, Port Orford, Oregon. My freshman class of 75 kids was the largest in school history, with a graduating class of around 40. The mill closed that year and …
Welcome to the revamped NWBookLovers.org! As you take a look around the new site, you’ll see that it feels more like a traditional blog than the old version and that we’ve got a bunch of new voices—all while hanging on to the best of the old site: the Face Outs, the author interviews and essays, …
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