If you need a good laugh and a good cry, pick this book up. Emily Austin masterfully marries tragedy with the poignantly ludicrous in this raw novel. Sigrid wants to die: fed up with her dissatisfying job, grieving the loss of her best friend, lamenting her heavy family dynamic, and feeling generally like growing up …
Seattle’s Phinney Neighborhood Association, in partnership with their local bookstore, Phinney Books, will host their 15th annual Holiday Bookfest Saturday November 23, 2024 from 2:00- 4:00 pm at Phinney Neighborhood Association, 443 N 67th St, Seattle, WA 98103. More than two dozen authors will be on hand for the 15th Holiday Bookfest! Books are great …
Just my kind of book. A messy family, a break-the-mold mother, whip-smart dialogue, and an illuminating view of what truly makes a family. Thank you, Laurie, for doing what you do best—share the truth about all the kinds of family in this wild world of ours. I’m so much wiser for reading your books. — …
From the Seattle Public Library’s Shelf Talk blog August 23, 2022. Title links go to SPL page; book cover links go to Bookshop.org. Your local independent bookstore is happy to help you find these books! Congratulations to 39 finalists in eight categories for the 2022 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by …
Here’s further proof that no one writes families as well as Laurie Frankel. Mabs, Monday and Mirabel are triplets growing up in a small town beset by an ever-worsening environmental crisis that has profoundly damaged its residents. Determined to find the culprit poisoning their town’s water, the girls’ mother wages a campaign that divides the …
Washington State Book Awards winners were announced on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at the Seattle Public Library. The Washington State Book Awards honor works of outstanding literary merit by Washington authors. An award is given based on the strength of the publication’s literary merit, lasting importance and overall quality to an author who was born in …
For me there are two main kinds of books with queer characters: those where queerness plays an integral role in the story and those where no one in the book bats an eye at a character’s queerness. Both are tremendously important. The first so that we can tell stories about our culture, how we got …
This was originally posted on Island Books’ tumblr It’s always a pleasure to see the list of finalists for the annual Washington State Book Awards, not least because the judges are some of our favorite people, local booksellers and librarians. We especially wanted to take note of this slate of books, though, since so many of their …
Seattle7Writers, the nonprofit collective of Pacific Northwest authors, partners with independent bookstores this summer to introduce readers to favorite authors and raise money for literacy nonprofits. In July, Island Books hosted the Seattle7Writers cookout to benefit Team Read, a nonprofit organization that pairs struggling young readers with trained teen reading coaches for one-on-one tutoring after school and …
The 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist has been announced! A panel of nine booksellers from the region selected these twelve titles from over 420 nominated books. Up to six winners will be announced in early January 2018. For some history on the awards, click here. Here is the shortlist: All’s Faire in Middle School …
