Whenever your local librarian highly recommends a book that TJ Klune (author of The House in the Cerulean Sea) calls a transformative marvel, you should probably read that book. I immediately did, and as someone who has access to whatever she wants to read, this will be a book I come back to over and …
Have you heard about the wonderful way King’s Books in Tacoma, WA and its customers are helping young people in the Pierce County Juvenile Court system? Every month, there’s a new book selected for discussion by youth in detention. The titles are all chosen to be inspiring and uplifting. (Check out the past list, full …
I started a new post weeks ago, all about my favorite Romance authors beyond the Pacific Northwest. It was full of enthusiasm and excitement and some outright pleading to y’all to give Romance a chance. And then I realized it would run in February, just in time for Valentine’s Day and I just couldn’t bring …
I spend most of my time here talking about how great indie bookstores are (and they are great) but I thought it might be interesting for a change to talk about a couple of failures, times when we at Island Books couldn’t seem to find what a customer wanted. A co-worker of mine, whose customer …
