From LitHub: Miriam Gershow Recommends Zoe Heller, Emily St. James, Jim Shepherd and More I am a writer living comfortably in middle age, embracing every gray hair, shopping the Eileen Fisher racks with glee, and yet I’m obsessed with high school. My new novel, Closer, takes place in and around a public high school in fictional Horace, …
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 …
