From Broadway Books in Portland, OR: Bill Holmes is our second featured customer of the month, another Broadway Books regular we look forward to seeing often on his near-weekly visits to the store. You can check out his book picks via this link or in the store on the shelf above staff recommendations. To preview other …
Many have proclaimed this to be the best piece of non-fiction in recent memory, for its historical and personal depth, and emotional candor. After inheriting a Japanese netsuke collection, ceramicist de Waal traces the “travels” of these small carvings, acquired by his great-grandfather’s cousin, and then moved from Paris to Vienna, to Tokyo, and now …
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 …
Patrick Ness is my favorite YA author without a question. The grace and heart he gives to teens is unparalleled. Burn is about Dragons in the 1950s, like the ’50s as they were but there are dragons, and for some reason, its genius, and I don’t know why I’m not consuming more media just like …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. It’s a new year, but some of the bestsellers on our list have been on bookstore shelves …
I found this to be an engaging, intelligent, and moving story. We tend to judge our books by their covers, and we so often don’t know the half of who people really are. Philosophical and lovely; I am very glad this story found me. –Debbie, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID Let life-changing stories find …
Like D.B. Cooper, poet-logger Wobblies, potlatches, and the geoduck, The Golden Spruce is the kind of story Cascadia produces best: mystical, misty, mystifying, and just a little bit larger than life. A great read, engaging without pandering or condescension, this story is part whodunit, part song-of-place, and part sorrowful cautionary parable. A must for all …
In the early ’80s I lived near the Frog Rock on Bainbridge Island. It was cheaper to live on the island and ride the ferry than to live in Seattle. On rare days, when I had a little money, I would treat myself to bookstore visits to Eagle Harbor Book Co. in Winslow and Elliott …
In this amazingly excellent dystopian novel, the main theme crops up often in the form of a quote from Star Trek: Voyager: “Survival is insufficient.” Besides the fact that I got the warm and fuzzies figuring the author must be a Star Trek fan, this quote perfectly describes the band of wandering musicians and Shakespearean …
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. When we looked at the bestseller list this week, we weren’t sure what decade …
