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Mar

13

2024

Argylle by Elly Conway

Here is a debut novel. This is Argylle, a new spy thriller written by Elly Conway, now a motion picture starring lots of pretty people. The film is about a struggling writer who inadvertently exposes an international conspiracy in the plot of her book and the shenanigans that follow. The film stars Henry Cavill as …

Jun

1

2021

“Snark Sells”: (Surprising) Blind Dates with Books from A Good Book

From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: It’s been one of those “making sh*t up” weeks. We do Blind Date books at the bookstore, and they’ve morphed from traditional blind date sorts of profile to Snark in a Brown Paper Wrap. It turns out that snark sells. Over the last few years, I’ve done more …

Aug

16

2019

Author Andrew Shaffer and Wendee Wieking at Queen Anne Book Company

Author Andrew Shaffer: Sharing “Hope” (and Giggles)

During his national tour for Hope Rides Again, the second Obama/Biden mystery, NYT bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer filmed a special moment at Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle… Enjoy!

Jul

8

2016

Weed: The User's Guide

Phinney Asks David Schmader: What to Read with Weed?

From Phinney Books‘ weekly newsletter: WEED READS FROM DAVID SCHMADER You likely know David Schmader from Last Days, his unfailingly hilarious long-running column at the Stranger, where he was associate editor from 1999 to 2014, but he’s also been a playwright, a performer, a bookseller (at the late, great Bailey/Coy Books on Capitol Hill), and a …

Mar

2

2016

All the Birds in the Sky

All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders

Anders’s debut novel has been filed, officially, on the adult side of fiction (and it does have an R-rated scene or two), but I think it might find its most passionate readers among older teen readers. It’s a crazy hodgepodge of a book, goofy and tragic all at once, combining, among a half-dozen other favorite …

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