An excerpt from the Dave Eggers piece from McSweeneys.net March 27, 2020 We will lose a lot in these next months. We’ve already lost too much. One thing we don’t need to lose is our independent bookstores. You have watched all the episodes of Norsemen. I’ve watched them twice. Now we need books. For so many, …
From Shelf Awareness for Readers November 15, 2019 On the last page of A Pilgrimage to Eternity, journalist Timothy Egan (The Immortal Irishman) reflects on his thousand-mile journey. “The Via Francigena is a trail of ideas, and it helps to walk with eyes open–otherwise you miss the bread crumbs of epiphany along the way.” Egan’s …
I LOVE this book! Karen Karbo is at her feisty best as she relates the “difficult” natures of her subjects. (The author of Eloise? Who knew?) –Cheryl McKeon, former bookseller at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA; currently the manager of Book Passage Ferry Building in San Francisco, CA Seattle area folks: Learn …
The NW booklovers’ community extends beyond the Pacific Northwest… Here, we see a lovely photo of a display promoting an event at Book Passage in San Francisco. (I pulled this post’s headline from the great intro on the shelf talker pictured.) The picture was posted by former Third Place Books bookseller, Cheryl McKeon, on Facebook with …
To honor the late beloved author Ivan Doig, Riverhead Books and independent bookstores around the Northwest are planning Ivan Doig Day celebrations to coincide with the publication of his upcoming novel Last Bus to Wisdom. The book is due out on August 18 and so far, according to Riverhead publicist Glory Plata, nine stores are …
This can be a dangerous book to read with someone else in the room because you will be laughing out loud so often that the other person will think that you’re crazy. Told entirely through referral letters, it is good-heartedly funny but never cruel. It points out absurdities of academia, bemoaning changes in technology and …
Painted Horses was chosen by independent booksellers as the #1 Indie Next book for August— the book booksellers were most excited about. Cheryl McKeon, now of Book Passage in San Francisco but formerly of Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA, wrote the blurb chosen to explain what readers love about Painted Horses: “Brooks sweeps …
Nikki McClure has deservedly become a well-recognized artist, author and illustrator. Walking down a street near my home I can easily find her books displayed in the window at Secret Garden Bookstore while prints of her work hang on the wall at the framing shop next door and are collected in greeting card boxes that …
“After a childhood spent shuttling between her ‘Great Alaskan Dad’ in isolated Anchorage and her ‘Great American Instant Coffee Single Mom’ in genteel Baltimore, Leigh Newman finds that her compass Still Points North. She shares her journey in a memoir filled with tales of surviving bears and flooded tents, as well as a mother whose insecurities …
“In this sequel, just out today, readers will be able to follow Hattie Big Sky to San Francisco from Montana, in part two of Kirby Larson’s saga about the teenager who took on a homestead and almost made it work. These novels have appeal to readers teen and up and book clubs, adolescent as well as …
