Ten years is a long time to wait, but well worth it in this case. Nicola Griffith’s Hild is one of my favorite historical novels ever, as my review in this newsletter from a while back will show. That book brought its eponymous protagonist into early adulthood, and Griffith is at last carrying her story forward through maturity in …
David James Duncan’s new novel, Sun House, defies any kind of simple or neat description; its length is daunting (over 700 pages) and the subject matter is challenging, but with determination you will be rewarded with an unforgettable story. By turns intriguing and disturbing, maddeningly complex and simply brilliant, confusing and enlightening, hilarious and deeply moving, …
The weather has turned once again, hasn’t it? While we had a few days of “Hey, where did you hide my short pants?”, it’s back to long sweaters and wooly fleeces again this week. Fortunately, the publishing world anticipated this mercurial change by dropping a bunch of hot titles on us this week. Curl up …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, when we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. I’m having company over tonight for the first time in almost two years, and that meant I had to pare down the stacks of fiction, nonfiction, middle grade, and YA …
If You Go Down to the Woods Today is a marvelous book filled with delightful pictures by Hartas and charming quatrains by Piercey. Sure to delight the smaller folk in your house, as well as provide them with a reasonable checklist that they can attain without a significant budget and a passport. –A Good Book, …
Trees: They provide shelter, sustenance, and sanctuary for vast numbers of creatures. They create the very air we breathe. And they are under threat. For generations, the Greenwood family lives with, destroys, fights for, and monetizes these gentle giants until their very existence is absorbed into the class system designed and upheld by the one …
From Rediscovered Books in Boise and Caldwell, ID: Heavy Book Sale! Is your New Year’s Resolution to Exercise More? Get your exercise by buying heavy books! Here’s the deal – we will weigh every book you buy (individually) and the more it weighs, the bigger your discount! If your book weighs: Less than 1 pound …
Sweeping immigrant story of the first logging industries and labor unions in the Pacific Northwest. The Overstory by Richard Powers and Barkskins by Annie Proulx would make good bookends to this saga. –Sandy, Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, OR Can you think of some other good reading bookend recommendations? We’ll go next: Some books about resilient women– Educated, …
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 …
As deep and broad and beautiful and American as the Grand Canyon. Because this torrent spills from the mind of one ordinary woman (an Ohioan, a wife, a mom, a baker of pies), because she’s hilarious, because her doubts and deprecations, her fondnesses and fears, are so mundane and relatable, because she exists as one …
