From the staff picks of Elliott Bay Book Company‘s Grace (Seattle, WA). “A short, swift, and luminescent book. . . . A remarkable thing: proof that Toni Morrison is at once America’s most deliberate and flexible writer. She has almost entirely retooled her style to tell a story that demands speed, brevity, the treat of …
Audiobooks. More specifically, audiobook narrators and the ability of said narrators to make or break an audiobook experience. I was going to try to do this without naming names, but I’ve never before shied away from being upfront about what I don’t like, so why would I now? I think it stemmed from some …
Carson Ellis’s detailed, engaging, and enchanting illustrations alone make this book exquisite, but then her writing just becomes the cherry on top. I am instantly smitten with this book that takes us not only around the world but back and forth through time, all the while drawing the reader in closer and closer. This is …
The illustrious illustrator behind The Wildwood Chronicles, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead and—a personal NWBL fave, sadly out of print—Stagecoach Sal, Carson Ellis now has a book all to her lonesome! Recommended: Read Home back-to-back with another classic book of dwellings, Mary Ann Hoberman’s A House is a House for Me, and grow your …
“This is the most accessible of the novels I’ve read by Toni Morrison, but it’s no less powerful for being readable. The story is about a Korean war veteran, Frank Money, who joined the army to escape from the home town in Georgia that he hated, and is now state-side again, suffering from what would …
