Now, doesn’t this look like a lovely way to spend the day? Inspiration courtesy of Cannon Beach Book Company in Cannon Beach, OR. Deb says if you haven’t read The House in the Cerulean Sea yet you’ll want to get it in your #TBR pile ASAP! It’s a quirky, heartwarming, tender, funny, feel-good tale that will …
March 23, 2015 To our dear friends who love books- After serving 4 years on the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association board, we’ve packed up our final board packets, wished our successors all the best, and headed west towards the Oregon coast. The plan is a 5 day tour that will take us to bookstores throughout …
It delights us to no end to help spread the great news about Cannon Beach Books: it has new owners! Maureen Dooley-Sroufe and Deb Mersereau, two long-time employees of Cannon Beach Book Company, have taken the reins at the delightful independent bookstore on the Oregon Coast. Many were enticed by the idea of continuing Valerie …
“Jennifer Vanderbes (Easter Island; Strangers at the Feast) takes on the ravages of war in The Secret of Raven Point. It is 1943 when 17-year-old Juliet Dufresne graduates from high school. She and her brother, Tuck, are exceptionally close. When he’s declared missing in action, she takes a nursing course, lies about her age and …
Astoria’s alternative paper Hipfish Monthly published an article today with a comprehensive guide to some of the great indie stores of the north Oregon Coast and the southern Washington Coast. There are short profiles of a dozen stores and their owners. The Coastal booksellers are presented as a smart, hearty, lively group who run cozy shops and love what they do and are game for weathering the storms and uncertainties of bookselling.
Get Lit at the Beach: A Gathering for Readers is a three-day-weekend literary festival happening in Cannon Beach, OR April 13 – 15. The festival is sponsored by the City of Cannon Beach, Tolovana Arts Colony and facilitated by Cannon Beach Book Company, who will be setting up shop all over town in support of …
Miranda Roethler reported and wrote a comprehensive, insightful article about ebooks and the future of bookselling for one of her classes at Oregon Episcopal School, where she’s a junior. We’re publishing a condensed version of it here. Roethler is a native Portlander. She says she spends her free time swimming, hanging out with friends, watching old …
It is with much gratitude that a graphic novelist accepts an award bestowed upon such brilliant company of prose writers. And it’s intimidating to play in the field with these wordsmiths, since I myself am clumsy with words and far more graceful and expressive with drawings. Yet, making stand-alone drawings doesn’t hold my interest. I …
“Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West is a book about basketball like Moby Dick is a book about a whale. Yes, there’s basketball in the rundown town of Willow Creek, Montana, and a coach whose team has the dismal record of zero wins and 93 losses. When two new kids show up, it gives Coach …
