Merry Christmas, booklovers!
From all of us to all of you, may you have a lovely Christmas! Whatever your celebrations, we hope you have a delightful day, and we hope you get a chance to sit down with a great book. Enjoy these scenes of the season.
Shades of Christmas
I’ve fallen into an unnatural role here at NW Book Lovers, that of holiday columnist. I say unnatural because I am by inclination someone who thrives on regularity and routine and does his best to follow Flaubert’s maxim: “Be settled in your life and ordinary as a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and …
Shopping Styles
Holidays are a mixed bag for me. On the negative side, the hours are long, my feet are sore, and I wake up most nights worried about stupid stuff. On the bright side, I like to watch people shop. It’s fascinating, really. Everyone approaches it so differently. It can be so revealing of one’s inner psyche. …
Seattle Christmas Tradition: Brad Craft Reads “A Christmas Memory”
Tonight at 7:00 at University Bookstore, one of our favorite Christmas traditions takes place: the annual reading by Brad Craft of “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote. Craft (above, reading some Ogden Nash holiday poetry), a bookseller, poetry-lover, author, artist, and modern Renaissance man, will warm your heart. The free cookie and cider will help …
Christmas in Books
Today, it snowed here for the first time this winter, making me think of Christmas. Although I work in retail, I have the ability to be shockingly unaware that Christmas is actually coming. I can wrap presents, recommend books, and hear people say “Two Christmas gifts taken care of!” for weeks, still apparently thinking it’s …
