This fascinating look at history and geography will intrigue readers, even people who don’t live in Seattle! For all its natural beauty, we know Seattle is man-made too: the famous Denny Regrade, the downtown landfill that the Big Quake will liquefy. I knew the broad story of our manufactured geography but none of the details, …
Independent Bookstore Day will take place on on Saturday May 2, 2015 at more than 400 bookstores nationwide. It celebrates the reading community and bricks-and-mortar bookstores. For one day, and one day only, a number of very limited, unique, word-based items and books will be available in more than 400 independent stores across the country. These aren’t …
Earlier this month, I went up to visit my sister in Renton, WA. Every time I visit her, I ask to go to an independent bookstore. I love visiting other indie bookstores, seeing how they do things, and seeing books I may not have encountered. Sometimes it isn’t convenient to get to a bookstore during …
Great news rang out in the bookselling world this week when Carol Santoro, owner of Santoro’s Books for 29 years, announced that she sold the brick-and-mortar bookstore in the Phinney/Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle to author Tom Nissley (A Reader’s Book of Days) and his wife Laura Silverstein (owner of Glittersweet, the local company behind the …
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In the wake of the fame granted by her bestselling, Booker-winning debut novel, The God of Small Things, Roy has mostly turned her writing to political reporting and activism. But the death of her mother, a larger-than-life figure who left her feckless husband and built an acclaimed school from the sheer force of her will …
We Needed a You is my new go-to baby shower recommendation. This delightfully sweet picture book features soft and colorful artwork and gentle text describing all the beautiful things in the world (“there were treats made for sharing and savoring,” “cats in the windows, blackberries to eat”) but ultimately something was missing, the parents tell …
At the center of this novel is a single, inexplicable incident from the end of the Spanish Civil War, when an unknown Republican soldier caught a leader of the right-wing Falange escaping a Republican firing squad but then walked away, sparing his life. Writing six decades later, Cercas frames his own investigation into this mystery …
