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Kazuo Ishiguro

May

19

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: Red Hot Covers

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. We noticed that if you face out the bestsellers, there’s a lot of red on the covers this week. (Also interesting that publishers switched from blue to red for …

Apr

7

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: The Best and Brightest Titles

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. For this week’s theme, I picked “the best and the brightest” because I noticed titles with words that sounded like stellar report card comments and others that had …

Jan

13

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: Day and Night

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. As the days get longer, we noticed that there’s a day and night theme to some of our regional bestsellers. Which are you rooting for? The Dawn of Everything by …

Aug

12

2021

Bestseller Spotlight: First Name Basis

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. You could use this week’s list as inspiration for book shopping and for what to name a goldfish, dog, hedgehog, cat, houseplant, or other new member of the household. Don’t …

Jul

23

2021

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

A Face Out from Obama’s Picks: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

An astronaut wakes up with amnesia, and discovers he is on a mission to save the world. This book is a return to what made The Martian such a great read. There’s a sarcastic but earnest narrator, many a life-threatening disaster, and so very much clearly and cleverly explained science. Once I started reading it, I could …

Feb

14

2017

3

remarks

Falling in Love with a Book

I really, really like a lot of books. But I don’t fall in love too often. Sometimes the relationship starts off in a friendly, comfortable, I-can-put-you-down-but-I’m-excited-to-see-you-again kind of way. As we progress, whenever I open the covers, I forget myself but also paradoxically feel that I’m becoming deeper, truer me. It’s all-encompassing and empowering. We’re better together, …

Mar

5

2015

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Most writers who develop a devoted readership over time do it with a series of books that offer comforting similarity. It’s easy for their fans to return again and again to the tried and true. It’s far more rare for someone to pull off the same trick by never repeating himself. You wouldn’t think that …

Jan

27

2011

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

“This novel is haunting and beautifully crafted. Etsuko’s daughter has committed suicide. While recovering from grief, Etsuko’s thoughts return to post-WWII. She remembers a friendship with mythic qualities and how tragic events can cause us to neglect the ones we love. Read this one not for plot and action, but for atmospheric depth”.—Morgan, Vashon Book …

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