Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. These covers are lookin’ at you, kid. Are there any other face covers from our bestseller list …
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. In assembling this week’s bestsellers, we noticed a lot of yellow covers, although one …
Mary Roach is at it again. After telling us all about cadavers, all things digestion, the afterlife, all things scientifically sexual, war, AND Mars, she is now turning her attention (and ours) to what happens when a critter breaks the law… you know, breaking and entering, butting heads with your camera, chomping on your toes …
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. We’re highlighting one-word titles. Easy to type. Maybe not-so easy to search. Easy to buy. Easy to enjoy. Bewilderment Richard Powers (#6 Hardcover fiction) Crossroads Jonathan Franzen (#8 Hardcover fiction) …
“This annual collection of essays is distilled from a variety of publications (Orion, Smithsonian, Outside, Scientific American, etc)—25 essays in all. This year’s collection has a great diversity of subjects and features many well known, very good writers. I appreciate the various “Best of” collections, as they provide quality reading material that can be taken …
“At last, science for English majors! While Roach’s research is in-depth (she rides the vomit comet to experience weightlessness, conducts countless interviews with astronauts and scientists and studies the history of the space programs world-wide) it’s always (ironically?) down-to-earth. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny as she recounts the difficulties of eating, exercising, dressing and performing toilet …
Anyone who has read Chelsea Cain’s gory and intense thrillers about serial killer Gretchen Lowell could easily conclude that the author is a sordid woman who has an air of darkness. Anyone who has actually talked with her knows differently. Cain is lively, quick to smile, prone to self-deprecation and at the ready for a …
