To me, one of life’s greatest simple pleasures is looking at clouds. Cloudspotting helps me appreciate everyday beauty in the world around me and encourages mindfulness. When I first came across Cloud Appreciation Society (yes, it’s a thing!) several years ago I knew I’d found my people. Their new book is everything I wanted—informative, gorgeously …
Independent journalist Naomi Klein found herself repeatedly confused with another Naomi, whose public profile and name were just similar enough that she found herself again and again attributed with the other’s paranoid crackpot conspiracies and her damaging and abhorrent claims. Obsessively, Klein witnessed the other Naomi’s rise to far-right Q-Anon fame, which led her to …
The Washington Center for the Book announced the winners of the 58th annual 2024 Washington State Book Awards. Congratulations! Books for adults Creative Nonfiction/Memoir: “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City” by Jane Wong, Seattle (Tin House Books) Fiction: “The Laughter” by Sonora Jha, Seattle (HarperVia) General Nonfiction/Biography: “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to …
Hua Hsu’s story perfectly balances being deeply personal and resonating with anyone who reads it. About friendship, nostalgia, identity and the desperate ways in which we try to preserve the past, Stay True is heartbreaking and deeply relatable to those struggling with loss in any form, whether it be loss of youth, loss of self, …
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. This week’s hardcover fiction bestsellers feature some powerful, complex wives. Could we continue the wifely theme by …
No matter what you think you know about AI, you need to read this book! Behind all the light discussion of whether or not AI is capable of coming up with quality output, whether or not writers might be cheated if AI is used to “mimic” existing authors and their works, or if political voices …
The Art Thief is a captivating true story of Stephane Breitwieser, an accomplished art thief who managed to steal two billion dollars of artifacts from museums…storing them in his attic. The twists and turns of Breitwieser’s story are simply unbelievable, and Michael Finkel keeps his readers engaged to the very last page. —Alex, Browsers Bookshop, …
I was searching for an up-to-date account of the events and issues surrounding Boldt Decision on the 50th anniversary of that momentous court case, and Treaty Justice was just the ticket. While I learned what I had hoped to about the so-called “fish wars,” I found the book to offer an outstanding overall account of the …
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This important collection is a welcome companion to Disability Visibility and, well, a more intimate look into the lives of the disabled writers profiled. It made me rethink how love, care, & intimacy are practiced. Not to mention sex and desire. Alice Wong is such a talented compiler and brings together a diverse collection of …
