I’m kind of surprised I liked this because it kind of grated at me at first… and then. Backstory: It’s the quadrennial Tournament of Dragon-Slayers, where the greatest knights (lacking dragons to slay, having slayed them all) compete for the hand of a Fair Princess… and her dowry. Isobelle is the princess, with her ladies …
This is my all-time favorite graphic novel– it’s the perfect blend of funny, heartfelt, and subversive. I cannot recommend it enough. If you haven’t read it, you’re in for a treat! –Jess, Powell’s on Hawthorne, Portland, OR Last week, during Portland Book Week, booksellers, authors, illustrators, and publishing folk from around the country gathered in …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. It’s Pride Month, so let’s celebrate LGBTQ+ characters and authors on our list! Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid …
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. We found some “night”s in shining titles this week. The Knight and the …
Read Starling House if . . . – you enjoy the fog -you’ve read a Stephen King or V. E. Schwab Book – you love the taste and/or smell of coffee. –Rachel, Browsers, Olympia, WA Find an atmospheric read at Browsers and other independent bookstores.
Reginald Bakeley’s classic Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop: And Other Practical Advice in Our Campaign Against Fairies, Gnomes, Goblins, and Other Nasty Members of the Fairy Kingdom is back in print! Thank goodness. Our chickens are all going to sleep more securely tonight, knowing that Mr. Bakeley’s timeless advice is once again readily available to the lay person. …
Patrick Ness is my favorite YA author without a question. The grace and heart he gives to teens is unparalleled. Burn is about Dragons in the 1950s, like the ’50s as they were but there are dragons, and for some reason, its genius, and I don’t know why I’m not consuming more media just like …
I can say this without spoiling anything, but the epilogue to Becoming Little Shell begins with reflections from “a little green house high on a hillside that overlooks Butte, Montana.” It is mid-November of 2021 and, as I wrote, I was in that house enjoying a residency where I largely completed the first draft of …
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. W is for winter and witches and women and water and walls and …
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins does not in fact have anything to do with cats or tails. But it does follow an undead assassin through the night after she breaks one of the three unbreakable rules. Once she decides not to fulfill her contract of unaliving her….younger self?, a host of characters track them all …
