What does a meaningful life consist of? One answer is the tender and thoughtful story of family told in the new novel by Jonathan Evison that explores the beautiful complexities of long term companionship. –Robert Sindelar, Third Place Books, Seattle, WA Johnathan Evison will tour starting tonight, January 7, 2025, with a launch party at …
Heartbreaking! Haunting! Absolutely gorgeous imagery that inspired me to paint! — Bianca, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR From Publisher’s Weekly: “Oshetsky handles Margaret’s monstrous manifestation with a delicate touch and infuses her daily life with a muted eeriness. . . . Readers will be captivated by Margaret’s beautifully weird search for atonement.” Find something gorgeous …
If you liked Justin Cronin’s vampire trilogy (starting with THE PASSAGE), I think you’ll love FEVER HOUSE and THE DEVIL BY NAME, a kind of zombie/STAND hybrid, by Keith Rosson. Big scares, big gross-outs, big fun. –Stephen King (@StephenKing) on X Oct. 5, 2024 Fever House is an Annie Bloom’s Staff Pick, and Portland author …
by Dana Haynes Don’t ask Portland novelist Michael Keefe what time period his new book, All Her Loved Ones Encoded, is set in. Better to ask what time period isn’t it set in. Keefe will take part in a book launch at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 S.W. Capitol Highway, …
From Annie Bloom’s Books September 7, 2024: We are incredibly sad to share that the beloved founder of Annie Bloom’s, Bobby Tichenor, passed away earlier this week. Bobby opened Annie Bloom’s nearly 46 years ago, in the fall of 1978 (while she was still in law school), and has been sharing her love of books …
[A] picture book tailor made for the times is The Power of One by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Mike Curato. In this story we see a girl deflated by the unkind words of a boy. But then another child responds to her pain with simple and gentle kindness. That one act plants a seed of hope and …
To & Fro can be read in any direction—start with “To” or begin with “Fro,” flip back and forth between the two, and be delighted by how they intersect. . . . There is no wrong way to read! Only heartfelt characters, beautiful imagery, and a story where there is no ending but lots to …
Truly the only novel about an MFA poetry program that matters; part parody, part homage, and another Cyrano de Bergerac retelling, this ridiculous farce of collegiate-town manners and betrayal is a heady read. –Ruby, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR Poetry month theme reading can include novels, too– novels in verse and novels about poetry. Ask for …
An excerpt from “Three sisters face shadows of disrupted lives in Portland author’s debut novel” by Amy Wang for the Oregonian/ OregonLive Leave it to a family therapist to write a novel about adult sisters each working their own way through a shared childhood trauma. Dian Greenwood’s debut novel, About the Carleton Sisters, features three …
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This novel is a fascinating and moving portrait of love, sex, grief, feminism, morality, fortitude, and the complexities of human character. When Sybil returns from Boston to the West Coast town where she once lived, she’s immediately empaneled on a jury for a murder trial. Also on the jury is her ex-husband. Sybil’s sympathy for …
