This is more than just a great cookbook full of cheap, easy, and delicious meals, though it is definitely that! It started out as the author’s capstone for her master’s in food studies–a free cookbook to make it easier to eat on the SNAP (food stamp) budget of $4 per person, per day. This version is the second edition, but the goal of making healthy eating more attainable remains: for each cookbook purchased, another copy is donated to someone in …
Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Oregon Book Awards! The awards were announced on April 24, 2017 at the Armory in Portland. ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Kate Berube of Portland Hannah and Sugar (Abrams Books for Young Readers) LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Deborah Hopkinson of West Linn Courage & Defiance: …
A boy imagines his day, and his father’s day, in a small town by the sea. He plays with a friend, eats a baloney sandwich, runs an errand for his mother, looks out at the ocean, while his father works down in the mine, just as his own father did, and as the boy likely …
Erin Ostrander, a King County Library System children’s librarian, Sasquatch Award Committee Member, and indie bookstore champion, has a great recommendation for Saturday’s Independent Bookstore Day celebrants: …teachers and librarians taking the challenge on Saturday could purchase the new nominees for two of our state children’s choice lists; both were just announced over the weekend. OTTER Award Nominees …
Did you know that Einstein’s brain saw more of the US than he did? True story. Forty years after he died, a piece of his brain took a road trip with a journalist and the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 (and kept his brain! What?). You can read about it in Driving …
Shoreline Area News published a feature about the map created by Third Place Books’ graphic designer, Stephen Crowe, for the fourth annual Seattle Bookstore Day (@SEABookstoreDay) passport for the Seattle area’s celebration of Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 29. On a personal level, Crowe’s map is exemplary of his skill and love of books. …
Readers who remember my interview with natural history writer David B. Williams already know that he’s at the very top of the list when it comes to covering our region’s past. His study of the myriad modifications our ancestors have made to the local landscape, Too High and Too Steep, was an Island Books Top …
Focusing on three strong figures– writer Mikhail Bulgakov; the beautiful, outspoken Margarita; and Ilya, a member of Stalin’s secret police– Mikhail and Margarita is a love triangle, a biographical literary thriller, and a paean to literature, a needful thing in times of tyranny and chaos. –Gigi, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR This novel was a March …
It’s New Year’s Eve 1984 and Lillian decides to spend the evening strolling her neighborhood of Manhattan. She dines alone, meets strangers, steps way outside her comfort zone, and lingers in thoughts of her life as the highest-paid advertising woman in the country. A love letter to city life. Lillian’s character is modeled loosely on the …
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar– Until the morning sun– When One–turned smiling to the land– Oh God! the Other One! The stray ships–passing– Spied a face– Upon the waters borne– With eyes in death–still begging raised– And hands–beseeching–thrown! –Emily Dickinson, (1861) 201 Lately I’ve been haunted by Dickinson’s poem about the two swimmers wrestling …
