One of the delights of working with teachers in training is sharing their sense of newness. Just like elementary students starting a new grade in September, would-be teachers come to the field of education with excitement and—most promising of all—hope. We all know that teachers face grave obstacles these days—cutbacks, large class sizes and the …
“How to ever convey in this small space how magnificent this debut fiction is? Words like mesmerizing, poetic, and true all come to mind. To sum: two farm wives, the land, what is remembered, what is sacrificed, what endures. Reminiscent of Willa Cather and John Steinbeck. Hoover’s novel is a haunting, plainsong. Winning and so …
One of our favorite book bloggers from the Portland area, Amy Baskin, who writes mostly about children’s books at Euphoria: That Kick I Get From Kid Lit, visited with Northwest Booksellers at their annual convention last week to moderate a discussion about how bloggers and booksellers can work together. Baskin put together the whole thing, …
