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Kristine Kaufman

Nov

29

2019

Kristine Kaufman

On History (in Fiction and Nonfiction)

Three books new on the table this month all have to do with history: history of the past, history now in the making, and history yet to come. The Cold War may not seem like ancient history (to some of us, at least), and as Lara Prescott’s compelling new novel shows, its echoes can still …

Jan

8

2019

1

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Kristine Kaufman

Stacking Up the Bodies: Mysteries to Get You Through Winter

Nothing warms up a cold, dark winter evening quite like a good murder mystery. And nothing makes a cold, dark winter pass more quickly than binge-reading murder mysteries written in series. So stack ‘em up, and start with these suggestions to keep you warm ‘til spring… I recently reread Edmund Crispin’s The Moving Toyshop after …

Oct

30

2018

Kristine Kaufman

The Shoulder Season

Autumn has finally arrived here in the Northwest corner, sneaking up on us perhaps because so much of October was dressed up in summer-like weather, but it’s still the perfect time to look back at some favorite reads from the summer just passed. Lining them all up, it seems that although I didn’t actually get …

Apr

13

2018

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Kristine Kaufman

“Pick This Next…”

Throughout my career as a bookseller, one of my favorite duties was selecting the books to be displayed on the bookstore’s Front Table. Usually just inside the front door, a stack on that table was the best way to tell fellow readers “pick this one next.” Now that I’m retired, I no longer have such …

Dec

17

2010

Once a Bookseller, Always a Bookseller: Dispatches from the Front by Larry and Karen West

After 40 years in the retail book business I thought I had learned everything I needed to know about running an independent bookstore. I was wrong. This afternoon I learned an new skill set – Sandbagging! We came to help out at the Snow Goose Bookstore here in Stanwood a week ago because my brother-in-law …

Dec

6

2010

Snowgoose Recommends Gift Books

The (Everett, Washington) Herald published a feature article on Sunday about the Snowgoose Bookstore in Stanwood, WA, and the owners’ recommendations for the best gift books for the Holiday season. The article also includes this great photo of the store owners, Kristine Kaufman and her husband Tom Bird, and gives a really nice impression of …

Sep

13

2010

Snow Goose Bookstore, Stanwood, WA

The Goose is a great old-fashioned small-town shop where the employees read most of the books and know most of their customers by name. There’s no web site or blog, no e-book display, nothing snazzy about it. This is where you go to buy a book made out of paper and maybe to wonder how …

Sep

13

2010

Mariposa Road by Robert Michael Pyle

“Robert Michael Pyle is our favorite Northwest naturalist. His new book, Mariposa Road:The First Butterfly Big Year (Houghton Mifflin, Sept., 2010) describes his year-long adventure seeking to spot as many American butterflies as possible. He’ll talk and read at The Snow Goose Thursday, October 21 at 7 pm.”—Kristine Kaufman, Snow Goose Bookstore, Stanwood, WA

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