From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: Shop early. Shop often. Don’t wait until mid-December. Supply chain woes are still throttling what we can get on the shelves. Please plan accordingly. We were expecting a dozen gazillion boxes on Tuesday. We might get them by Friday. At which point, they’ll be mixed in with the …
From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: Before we claw back an hour or so of daylight the weekend after Ghouls & Goblins Night, here are a trio of mood-settings that are best read by candlelight. First up, there’s Witchcraft, the next volume in Taschen’s Library of Estoerica. It’s Taschen. It’s about spooky stuff at …
Stephen Graham Jones is back with My Heart is a Chainsaw. Jones, who has been diligently writing amazing horror stories for the past decade, is really taking off these last few years. Last year’s release The Only Good Indians won the Ray Bradbury Prize, the Alex Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Bram Stoker Award (and it’s …
Look, it’s a book about talking animals and the art is astounding. But, is it a role-playing campaign setting, or it is an actual guide book to the land of Gwelf? We’re not sure, but we also don’t care. We’re delighted to no end that a book like this exists. If you are in the …
… speaking of fantastic reads, Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut, arrives this week. Afterparties is a collection of loosely connected stories about Cambodian-Americans. They are all crafting new identities (or trying to find identities) in America, but the ghosts of the ancestors and the haunting memories of their homeland are never far away. So’s stories are both …
Elissa Washuta’s White Magic is a collection of amazing essays about loneliness, addiction, cultural devastation, and grief. Washuta, a member of the Cowlitz tribe, explores the persistent trauma of colonization on the native peoples of North America, as well as her own efforts to find her own place and identity in this modern world. Along the …
Here’s Susie Hodge and Amy Grimes with Artistic Places, the latest volume in the Inspired Traveller’s Guides series. This time around, we’re visiting famous artistic destinations around the world, where we’ll get a chance to understand what prompted a visual artist to do some art. Munch and his bridge. Constable and his landscapes. Vermeer and …
Important traveller tip: Dinner at the Bozeman airport after 5pm is either food at one or two unremarkable (and overly crowded) eateries or a microwaved Hot Pocket. We got the last two pockets. This is the sort of thing that Bourdain does not cover in his recent book. –Mark Teppo, A Good Book, Sumner, WA …
From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: It’s been one of those “making sh*t up” weeks. We do Blind Date books at the bookstore, and they’ve morphed from traditional blind date sorts of profile to Snark in a Brown Paper Wrap. It turns out that snark sells. Over the last few years, I’ve done more …
If You Go Down to the Woods Today is a marvelous book filled with delightful pictures by Hartas and charming quatrains by Piercey. Sure to delight the smaller folk in your house, as well as provide them with a reasonable checklist that they can attain without a significant budget and a passport. –A Good Book, …
