Honoring Memorial Day
Please note that some local businesses are closed to honor Memorial Day.
Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
This is my favorite kind of non-fiction book—a failure. Which is to say that it isn’t a biography of the influential mid-century poet Frank O’Hara, although it’s full of biographical detail and wise analysis of his life and work. It also doesn’t offer definitive answers about the fraught relationship between distant fathers and their underappreciated …
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
This book is a joy to hold and behold. Just what the Universe has ordered up for these trying times, and Margaret Renkl has delivered. 52 transcendent meditations on the natural world. Brief yet beautiful with illustrations to accompany done by her brother. Over and over Margaret reminds us that even though “The world is …
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst
What better way to embrace the encroaching darkness than to curl up with Lol Tolhurst’s Goth: A History. That’s right. One of the founding members of The Cure has written a book about the genre of Goth. It’s one of those weird moments that illuminate the entire structure of the Universe. If this thing is, …
George: A Magpie Memoir
by Frieda Hughes
When Frieda Hughes, poet, painter and home repair fanatic, found her marriage close to shattering and her health precarious, she moved to Wales, to a broken down home with a garden of despair. What more could a creative soul want—the garden, three dogs and, oh, yes, that wee chick of a magpie she found on the ground after …
At Home in the Pacific Northwest
It was uncommonly easy to find myself at home in the Pacific Northwest. After forty years of wandering in other countries and the US, I knew intuitively that it was where I wanted to plant myself even though I had no roots in the area. The land and seascapes lure me outside most days to …
Bestseller Spotlight: A Matter of Taste
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. We got this week’s theme idea from seeing Life in Five Senses by Gretchen …
Close Calls, a Love Letter to Community, and “Deep Waters”
Deep Waters tells the true story of a couple challenged when the author’s otherwise healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth …
March Is Disability Awareness Month
March is Disability Awareness Month, “an opportunity to raise awareness about the support and rights of people with disabilities and to appreciate their contributions to our communities and society” (as stated by Vanderbilt University). Northwestbooklovers.org recognizes and appreciates booksellers, authors, and readers with disabilities. Here are a few we would like to shine a spotlight …
Mixtapes and Stories: An Original Essay by 2023 PNBA Book Award Winner Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
When I was still small enough to sit on my great grandmother’s lap I wasn’t afraid of anything. I remember trips out to the Olympic Peninsula where my siblings and I slept in tents or beneath the stars. The murmur of adults speaking against the last embers of a fire and the crawl of the …
