It was a @mariasemple weekend for her old Seattle friends: watching her on stage @townhall_seattle trading zingers with @whoiskenjennings on Saturday night and hosting a book-signing visit at the store and doing some visiting with friends on Sunday. Her new novel, Go Gentle, is a heartful hoot, the kind of book for which the adjective “madcap” was invented—we’ve been trading our …
Corinna Luyken, Olympia author and illustrator, dressed as a character from her new picture book, The Arguers, for a special storytime and signing at Browsers Books. The book is visually stunning and very thought-provoking. The kingdom is known for its residents’ ability to argue, but sometimes all the arguments make it impossible to hear what …
Independent bookstores have been big supporters of Antoni Porowski and his latest cookbook, Antoni: Let’s Do Dinner. The Emmy Award-winning author (the food and wine expert on “Queer Eye”) offers easy, fun, delicious recipes full of healthy ingredients and a few indulgences. His publicity team also sent around some life-sized cutouts of Antoni, so bookstores …
Seattle author Daniel James Brown autographed copies of his latest book, Facing the Mountain, for Elliot Bay Book Company in Seattle in preparation for his launch event with the bookstore and nonprofit Denshō on May 11. No one puts heart into history quite like Brown. Fans of The Boys in the Boat will appreciate how he again …
I met Rob Phillips a few weeks ago. He had on a mask. So, I might not be able to recognize him on the street after COVID-19. I have, however, read his Yakima Herald Republic column for years. I love the comfortable way he writes, never exuding the expert outdoorsman vibe that keeps others from …
NWbooklovers congratulates Tina Ontiveros, bookseller and book buyer at Klindt’s Booksellers in the Dalles and President of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, on the publication of her memoir, rough house. rough house will be available at independent bookstores everywhere this month. Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR is hosting a virtual book launch event with …
Want an adorable, unique gift? Broadway Books in Portland has some great ideas. But you need to contact them ASAP, before the morning of Wednesday February 5, 2020 if you want to jump on their personalized copies of some hot titles. … our friends Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel are back with a new book, …
I read an early copy of Ruta Sepetys’ The Fountains of Silence, and it was absolutely fantastic. If you aren’t familiar with this author, she writes books about history that we often aren’t familiar with or taught in school. The Fountains of Silence takes place in Madrid, 1957 when Spain was under the fascist dictatorship …
In a desert town near Joshua Tree National Park, a man dies in a hit-and-run accident. Thus opens a story of the man and his family and the investigation of his death. Alternately narrated by several different characters, we learn of backstories and side stories and brief flashbacks to Morocco and Iraq and Mexico. And …
I love when a local author I admire is everywhere I look. This week, it’s been that way with Maria Semple. She kept popping up in my twitter and facebook feeds because she’s been so dang busy! She was on NPR. She was at King’s Books. Somehow she worked some Hermione time-turner-type magic and had …
