I loved this book! The author says it best in her acknowledgement. “I wanted to write a book that felt like a warm hug. The Spellshop is special to me because it’s filled with things that bring me joy…. This book is my gift to anyone who wants to escape and sink into a world …
This marvelously funny, scathingly witty novel features a biracial professor, artist’s wife and mother of two. Jane has just finished her 2nd novel, a hefty tome exploring mixed-race reality in America, but her agent’s reaction leads her, instead, to pitching screenplays to a bigwig in Hollywood’s latest venture: a superficial, hackneyed portrayal of, in her …
The gay Pride and Prejudice retelling of our collective dreams, When Darcy Met Lizzy has all the yearning and intelligence of its source material while also adding new life. Reading this felt like falling in love with something familiar for a second time. You can feel Downing’s love for Austen in her reimagining of our …
A gloriously clever mashup of genres that captures the loneliness of space and the joy of finding companions to explore it with. I laughed one page, cried the next, and cheered for Demeter and her motley crew throughout. Of Monsters and Mainframes is a delight from start to finish. –Maiga, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR Feel …
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati is a brutal and beautiful retelling of her story. For fans of The Song of Achilles, Circe, Stoneblind, and lots more. This is a must read if you love powerful badass women in charge. –Marrakech, Country Bookshelf, Boseman, MT Get your Greek on at Country Bookshelf and other independent bookstores. Retellings, …
America in the years leading into WW2 went through astonishing twists and turns in the efforts of homegrown Nazis and Fascists, who worked with great coordination and sophistication to destroy Democracy and install authoritarian rule. Their primary tools were propaganda, misinformation, and overwhelming antisemitism, and their funding was largely from the Nazi regime. Among their …
Yours Cheerfully: the best possible antidote for the blahs, the doldrums, all slumps, but also effective against letdowns and general malaise. Loved. Every. Word. —Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry This book, the sequel to Dear Mrs. Bird, can be read as a stand-alone or in sequence. It is also a staff pick of Karen …
Read Starling House if . . . – you enjoy the fog -you’ve read a Stephen King or V. E. Schwab Book – you love the taste and/or smell of coffee. –Rachel, Browsers, Olympia, WA Find an atmospheric read at Browsers and other independent bookstores.
This is Henry’s third romance novel and dare we say her best yet! We both fell in love with Beach Read and adored People We Meet On Vacation, but Book Lovers is *chef’s kiss* FANTASTIC! Book Lovers is full of the laugh out loud humor, clever wit, heart, and steaminess Henry is best at. We …
I did not know that I would find pleasure in the rain. I grew up in northern Alberta on the edge of the subarctic, where everything is covered in snow for several months of the year. I moved to Vancouver, BC to teach and to write. It rained every day that first January. I was …
