We’re going to miss Cheryl McKeon, who’s been slinging books at Third Place in Seattle for ten years now and is moving to Northern California with her family. We like the phrase “slinging books” because it suggests that bookselling is hard work and not just a job where you drink coffee and talk about books …
On holidays, remember to check with your local, independent bookstore to make sure they are open their regular hours. Enjoy this salute to laborers and those who speak for them. This display was shared by former PNW bookseller Cheryl McKeon, now a bookseller at The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, NY.
I LOVE this book! Karen Karbo is at her feisty best as she relates the “difficult” natures of her subjects. (The author of Eloise? Who knew?) –Cheryl McKeon, former bookseller at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA; currently the manager of Book Passage Ferry Building in San Francisco, CA Seattle area folks: Learn …
The NW booklovers’ community extends beyond the Pacific Northwest… Here, we see a lovely photo of a display promoting an event at Book Passage in San Francisco. (I pulled this post’s headline from the great intro on the shelf talker pictured.) The picture was posted by former Third Place Books bookseller, Cheryl McKeon, on Facebook with …
Whenever I travel, I can’t resist bookstores, and of course, while I’m browsing, I’m always looking for books I know and love. Above, I visited Book Passage in San Francisco, right in the Ferry Building. The store is managed by my friend and former Pacific Northwest bookseller, Cheryl McKeon. On the store’s staff picks, I found …
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.
Walking around the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show this year, I had a task at hand. I needed to corner my fellow book-loving cohorts and ask “What’s the one book you read this year that floored you?” If you want to see a book lover stopped in his tracks, just ask that question. He’ll …
“In this WWII story like no other, a former investigative reporter for The New York Times tells of her mother and grandparents’ flight from 1938 Germany for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees. In 1942 they escaped France, to be detained in Cuba for almost two years before emigrating to New York. This …
Flannery O’Connor once gave her short stories to a neighbor who read them and said, “Them stories just gone and shown you how some folks would do.” Ten years ago, after hearing a snippet of a story from my grandmother about her step-mother, Hattie, who homesteaded by herself as a young woman in eastern Montana, …
