Queen Anne Book Company of Seattle, WA celebrated being named Seattle Times’ Best of the PNW/ The People’s Choice Bookstore for 2023! You can see them celebrating in front of the store (and a peek at the insert) at their Instagram.
David James Duncan’s new novel, Sun House, defies any kind of simple or neat description; its length is daunting (over 700 pages) and the subject matter is challenging, but with determination you will be rewarded with an unforgettable story. By turns intriguing and disturbing, maddeningly complex and simply brilliant, confusing and enlightening, hilarious and deeply moving, …
Feed your summer reading habit and support your favorite NW indie by shopping The Great Summer Reading Guide! This summer, many independent bookstores will share favorite titles through email newsletter, websites, and bookshop.org collections. We’ll feature some of the titles here, too, to help you remember that whether your local independent bookstore has air conditioning …
Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts and Lectures put together another fun summer reading challenge this year– Book Bingo for adults and teens! Again this year, one of the squares is “recommended by a librarian or independent bookseller.” Many Seattle area stores have even printed out copies of the bingo cards for customers who want …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) announced today that regional independent bookstores will offer an exclusive, in-store-only Independent Bookstore Day Limited Edition PNBA bookmark– printed on edible, sustainable smoked salmon leather. These beautiful salmon leather bookmarks have a slight, classic fishy odor that will complement new-book smell. The PNBA and commemorative “IBD 2019” logos are …
From the Books Around the Corner Newsletter 10/19/18 LATEST NEWS The sign is up and it’s [less than] two weeks until Books Around the Corner opens its doors. We have over $500 of donations through our Indiegogo Campaign and another few hundred received in donations at the Gresham Farmer’s Market. While we don’t want to …
This is the astonishing story about the most powerful US spy during the Korean War era. He obtained North Korean plans, first ignored by US Army brass, and was very close to the South Korean president. He set up and oversaw a vast spy network. It is also an account of the massacres, carpet bombings, blunders,and cover-ups– …
Written like a musical fugue with four voices in counterpoint, I enjoyed the beautiful language, narrative structure, and the distinctive voices of characters that I could relate to as they wrestle with grief, aging, identity, and family. Their stories are seen as back-lit by the suicide bombing of three Metro stations and one bus in …
from the Eagle Harbor Book Co. blog A Farewell from Emma (Who Will be Back) The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read. ~ Abraham Lincoln In the shadow of my impending departure to a graduate program in Who Knows …
A half a million glass photographic plates hold the only visual record of the night sky between 1885 and 1992. This dazzles me and I’m not an astronomer. It dazzles me even more to learn that a group of dedicated women (mostly unpaid) spent decades attending to these glass slides with utmost dedication well before …
