What a treat it was to read Colson Whitehead’s new book Harlem Shuffle. It is the best trip I have taken during the last year. I did not actually “shuffle” around Harlem in the early 1960s, as that would have included using my feet, but I spent time riding on a truck bed, sometimes accompanied …
[Broadway Books‘ July 13, 2020] newsletter links to a list of books by authors who were scheduled to read from their books at Broadway Books in April, May, and June. Some of the books are novels, some are collections of poems, stories or essays; some offer advice, directions, and instructions. The writers of those books …
WOW! I just completed Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris, her second book. It was as mindboggling as The Tattooist of Auschwitz, her first. The story is true but the author did not meet her subject. The story is based on interviews with Lale Sokolov, the subject of her first book, plus extensive research into the …
A war is waged by two rival time-traveling agents: Red, who comes from a world ruled by technology, and Blue, who comes from a world rooted in organic life. The narrative is told through letters between the women, at first passionately loathsome, then– surprising both– passionately loving. Through visceral, poignant, and intricate wordplay, El-Mohtar and …
This is a link we’ve had in the files for quite some time now… Even though the titles aren’t quite so fresh, it’s still a fun tool. The Seattle Times created interactive book recommendations based on reviews from the paper. You know what’s even more fun, though? Visiting a local independent bookshop to ask a bookseller …
Trouble in Rooster Paradise is a fun mystery set in 1950 Seattle and in 2003 in a Seattle area injury rehab center. 83 year old retired shamus (private detective) Gunnar Nilson is laid up in 2003 in a nursing home with a busted gam (leg). Josephine Tey used a similar gambit in The Daughter of Time, which …
You know you want it… There’s still time to type up a little something about your favorite spooky read, the name of your favorite independent bookstore, and your mailing address to email to nwbooklovers editor, Tegan to be entered to win a poster signed by Neil Gaiman. Entries to our contest are due by the LAST …
In between stocking up on candy for trick-or-treaters, finalizing your Halloween costume, and putting the finishing touches on your jack-o-lanterns, we have a spooktacular opportunity for Neil Gaiman fans: A CHANCE TO WIN A SIGNED GRAVEYARD BOOK POSTER! How can you win this hauntingly awesome prize? Email nwbooklovers editor, Tegan with the following before the …
“Thanks to the Pacific NW Writers Association, I recently discovered books by Bernadette Pajer. Her protagonist in the historical/scientific mysteries set in Seattle around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is Professor Benjamin Bradshaw. Bradshaw is a professor of electrical engineering at the fledgling Department of Engineering at the University of Washington. The first …
Jeff Shaara may be the best contemporary writer of military history written as fiction. I recently finished The Final Storm. This is the fourth book in Shaara’s World War II series. The first three books take readers from North Africa to VE Day. The Final Storm moves to the Pacific Theater. The first chapter or two briefly …
