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Annie Blooms

Oct

16

2020

Read Up, Kids: Middle Grade Chapter Book Recommendations from Portland’s Annie Bloom’s Books

From the recommendations of bookseller and kids’ author Rosanne Parry, here are three middle grade novels perfect for 9- to 14-year-olds: The Artifact Hunters by Janet Fox is like Harry Potter set in a magical school in Scotland. But, unlike Harry Potter, the characters travel through time in an attempt to solve real historical problems and keep the dangers of the …

Feb

20

2020

Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan

Have you ever wondered about the idea of progress, about whether life is better today than it was a generation ago, or fifty generations ago, or five hundred generations ago? Christopher Ryan explores these themes in depth. Civilized to Death challenges the Narrative of Perpetual Progress (NPP) in its many iterations. The civilized define themselves …

Feb

12

2015

First Bad Man

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

July is a master of mining uncomfortable moments, both for laughs and for poignant revelations of character. Well, poor Cheryl Glickman’s life is one long, uncomfortable moment. So, when her bosses coerce shy, awkward middle-aged Cheryl into housing their obnoxious Amazonian twenty-something daughter, Miranda July revels in the opportunity to explore all the weird, murky, …

Jun

25

2011

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg

“Paul Greenberg’s Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food is filled with good stories, good science and good writing! It’s a fascinating book with a worrisome message. My book group loved it.”—Mary, Annie Bloom’s, Portland

May

25

2011

The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

“Given the historic revolution in Egypt this spring, Alaa Al Aswany’s novel, The Yacoubian Building, couldn’t be more relevant. This compelling story illustrates how impossible it is to lift yourself up in a society riddled with corruption. It also shows how moments of grace can be found in the strangest places. (You can also download …

Jan

7

2011

8

remarks

Books, Memory and the Twelve Bright Stars Scratched Across Page 302

Whenever we buy a book, we say we buy a “copy” of it. We buy a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word “copy” fails. Because what I experience when I read Gravity’s Rainbow, or Beloved, or …

Aug

24

2010

Little Green Author Recounts Nervy First Reading

Before the first official reading of my book, Little Green (Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, 2010), at Annie Bloom’s Books in Multnomah Village, I was a little nervous. That evening in June on the final night of the NBA playoffs, I took the #44 bus to The Village, my old neighborhood. In the early 90’s …

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