Last night I read this wonderful book. The story of a little boy in CT who grows up to be a restaurant critic in Paris, then at Gourmet magazine (oh how I miss that publication). If you love food & dining like I do, you will devour this in one sitting. James Beard, Julia Child, …
Important traveller tip: Dinner at the Bozeman airport after 5pm is either food at one or two unremarkable (and overly crowded) eateries or a microwaved Hot Pocket. We got the last two pockets. This is the sort of thing that Bourdain does not cover in his recent book. –Mark Teppo, A Good Book, Sumner, WA …
WOW! I just completed Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris, her second book. It was as mindboggling as The Tattooist of Auschwitz, her first. The story is true but the author did not meet her subject. The story is based on interviews with Lale Sokolov, the subject of her first book, plus extensive research into the …
Award-winning author Jason Reynolds, who is serving his second term as the 2018 Indies First spokesperson, the American Booksellers Association and American Express, and Reynolds’ publisher, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, are working together to make available 20,000 special edition copies of Reynolds’s Ghost to young readers in underserved communities this holiday season. Through the initiative, participating independent booksellers will …
This is a link we’ve had in the files for quite some time now… Even though the titles aren’t quite so fresh, it’s still a fun tool. The Seattle Times created interactive book recommendations based on reviews from the paper. You know what’s even more fun, though? Visiting a local independent bookshop to ask a bookseller …
