Gift idea: Buy a cookbook for a place someone wants to visit or has recently been to. You can learn a great deal about a place through its food. After going to Edinburgh this summer, I’m slowly working my way through this lovely new cookbook, Winter in the Highlands, and also dreaming of going to …
The gay Pride and Prejudice retelling of our collective dreams, When Darcy Met Lizzy has all the yearning and intelligence of its source material while also adding new life. Reading this felt like falling in love with something familiar for a second time. You can feel Downing’s love for Austen in her reimagining of our …
Corinna Luyken, Olympia author and illustrator, dressed as a character from her new picture book, The Arguers, for a special storytime and signing at Browsers Books. The book is visually stunning and very thought-provoking. The kingdom is known for its residents’ ability to argue, but sometimes all the arguments make it impossible to hear what …
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ballast Book Co. (@ballastbookco) Independent Bookstore Day 2025 is Saturday, April 26. Washington’s South Sound bookstores are hosting the South Sound Bookstore Crawl April 26th through May 4th. It’s a worthy quest! If you visit all 11 stores on the South Sound Book Crawl and get …
An ode to the power of stumbling across the perfect rock. Poetic and stunningly illustrated, this picture book asks its reader to seek and recognize the inner and hidden beauty of our natural world and within ourselves. A sweet reminder to stop and take notice. – Claire, Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA Take your time to …
Read Starling House if . . . – you enjoy the fog -you’ve read a Stephen King or V. E. Schwab Book – you love the taste and/or smell of coffee. –Rachel, Browsers, Olympia, WA Find an atmospheric read at Browsers and other independent bookstores.
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty follows Feyi’s journey to find love years after a traumatizing accident upends her life. Decadent food descriptions and a lavish background make this book […] so hard to put down. –Alex, Browsers Books, Olympia, WA Treat yourself to books you can’t put down from Browsers Books …
Not only was the tale a perfect, enchanting winter read with whispering trees, enticing animal friends, and beautiful illustrations, but the afterward was just as brilliant and fun to read. Sometimes, the easiest place to find yourself and your destiny is in a winter wood. – Skye, Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA Something seasonal, something timeless– you …
The poems in this tiny little book are delightful enough to fill your heart to the very brim. I am feeling grateful for the act of sharing an orange, for a Valentine, for flowers, for the changing of names. I laughed and I swooned. “I love you. I’m glad I exist.” –Jeanette B., Browsers Bookshop, …
No one walks the fine line between enchantment and shadow quite like Ogawa, a tension she strikes with such precision in Mina’s Matchbox. Just like Tomoko, the reader can’t help but be infatuated with Mina, her eclectic family and the beautiful home they inhabit, all the while unable to shake the feeling that there is …
