From the Huffington Post, 1/17/17, by Katherine Brooks Senior Arts & Culture Editor: Bookstore Will Hand Out Free Copies Of ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ On Inauguration Day Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 21st-century feminist manifesto is the perfect inauguration day read. On the occasion of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, an Oregon bookstore is celebrating “new beginnings and …
From the Huffington Post 1/12/16: Lost in the Stories by Sara Lindberg I must confess — I LOVE books. I love how they smell when you open them up for the first time. I love how they feel in my hands. I love how heavy the bag is when I leave the store with my treasures. …
People sometimes ask, “What’s it like working at Annie Bloom’s?” and my answer is, “Mostly it’s a gift.” As an example, customers often make comments that are so interesting I write them down on little scraps of paper. It’s like getting a free one-liner to use in a future conversation, which is exactly what I …
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho—nowhere near the “Midwest upbringing” alluded to in this Huffington Post intro. (Not only did the article’s author ignore the Northwest, but jumped the Mountain West as well!) Any NW fan of Robinson knows that the fictitious town of Fingerbone from her debut novel, Housekeeping, closely resembles Sandpoint, on …
Today we checked in with Third Street Books’ Sylla McClellan to see how the weekend went following last Wednesday’s “Ditch Amazon” decree. McClellan says: “We had four people bring in their closed accounts – which was great. But more importantly, we had a lot of positive conversations with people about it (and great sales numbers …
In the June issue of Footnotes, our newsletter for Northwest independent bookstores, we reprinted a list of comments heard by Cynthia Christensen’s husband, Charlie, when he was managing their store, The Book Stop in Hood River, OR, while Cynthia was out sick. Charlie, whose day job is in an emergency room at the local hospital, was …
