Oooh, I just love a good holiday gift guide! So after I helped put one together for Queen Anne Book Company, I surfed the websites of the independent bookstores of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and found MORE. Take a browse. You might even want to share your favorite lists because not everyone is lucky …
“What are you reading right now?” This is the time of year when I dread this question. Imagine my typical customer, a nice, middle-aged, middle-class, well-dressed woman who loves to read, standing in front of me, asking this question with an expectant, hopeful look on her face. She needs a new book, perhaps a read …
“Right now our bookshelves and tables are groaning with the weight of all the Father’s Day flotsam and jetsam that publishers could launch. An entire years worth of manly books arrived in the last two weeks and there’s way too much to absorb. It’s hard to pick out the pearls amidst the crashing waves of …
I just finished his mammoth (724 pages) WWII thriller, The Unlikely Spy, by Daniel Silva, who has been favorably compared to Ken Follett and Robert Harris as a writer of spy fiction. The story takes place in the U.S., U.K. and Germany from the late 1930s to the landings in Normandy. Some of the characters—Winston Churchill and German spymaster Admiral William Canaris—are …
This is one of my favorite short-story collections—actually, one of my favorite books—in a long time. Each story is its own little world, with a unique narrator and point of view. I'm amazed at Meloy's ability to write such diverse stories with humor, heart, and insight. credit scores It was so good I read it …
His was a seemingly innocent question. I was prone in my dentist’s chair about to wait ten eventless minutes in the process of having a crown put in when Brian, my dentist, asked, “Did you bring a Kindle?” He was offering to retrieve it from the waiting room so that I’d have something to read. …
Jack Higgins has been writing since 1959 but it was 1975’s bestseller The Eagle Has Landed that launched his reputation. He has written 35 mysteries and thrillers using the names Harry Patterson, James Graham, Martin Fallon and Hugh Marlowe and 25 more under the name Jack Higgins. Higgins, et al., is a very good storyteller and …
Tonight, at Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, nine authors will try on their bookselling hats for the evening. The authors—Kathleen Alcala, Carol Cassella, David Guterson, Jonathan Evison, Suzanne Selfors, Kristin von Kreisler, Susan Wiggs, Barbara Winther and George Shannon—will recommend their favorite books on writing and otherwise from 5-7 pm. Shannon will share …
