One of few pleasures of the 2020 pandemic was the opportunity to try a vegetable garden, a staple in my parents’ and grandparents’ yards growing up. After years of urban living, I lacked a green thumb. But following the simple and cheerful guidelines of the enthusiastic Bartholomew, I finally nailed it — with carrots, peppers, …
This week, Elliott Bay Book Company announced it is welcoming booklovers back inside the store. In-store browsing is by appointment. The store continues to offer curbside pick-up and free shipping. To make a 30-minute appointment to shop at Elliott Bay Book Company, visit the store’s appointment page. As of publication on August 21, 2020, other …
Le Guin can do more with a novella than most people can do with a full-length book. She writes with complexity about justice, cruelty, home, and grief just as deftly as she moves between science fiction, fantasy, and realism, and each of these stories is populated by characters so real you can almost feel their …
Portland author and artist Joe Sacco won a 2014 PNBA Book Award for his 244-page illustrated panorama, The Great War. This month on Lithub, he has a stunning piece about our current crisis and how it might be seen in the future. It is titled Will We One Day Honor the Veterans of the Great …
[Broadway Books‘ July 13, 2020] newsletter links to a list of books by authors who were scheduled to read from their books at Broadway Books in April, May, and June. Some of the books are novels, some are collections of poems, stories or essays; some offer advice, directions, and instructions. The writers of those books …
From the Island Books blog June 26, 2020 So our doors are open. We can better serve the public. You can buy what is on our shelves directly, instead of through Instagram or our website. That is fantastic! But, your books are still taking weeks if not months to get here. We aren’t able to …
As we enter Phase 2, with the hope that this is not just a prelude to slipping back into Phase 1, let us first acknowledge the sadness, sorrow, and grief being felt by all those who have lost loved ones. For more than 100,000 of our fellow Americans there is no Phase 2. For their …
Next chapter: COVID-19 and Oregon’s indie bookstores How sellers adapted, and what changes they may carry forward as the state reopens by: Hannah Ray Lambert Posted: May 19, 2020 on koin.com CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (KOIN) — In mid-March, independent bookstores across the country closed their doors indefinitely in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Now two months later, …
We know puzzles can be hard to come by these days, and many of our suppliers are out of stock, but we recently received another batch, and this time we’ve made it a little easier to buy them from us. We’ve created a page on our site with our current puzzle inventory—you can purchase them there, …
How the world has changed since January, when the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award winners were announced and authors, bookstores, and publishers were making happy plans for celebratory events. Green Bean Books jumped at the chance to host the award presentation event for Dylan Meconis and Queen of the Sea. The original idea was to …
