From the website of beloved Oregon author, Cai Emmons: Dear Readers, It is with sadness that we share the news of Cai ending her remarkable life on January 2, 2023. She had planned her death for her 72nd birthday, January 15, but ALS had other ideas. Like so much of her life up to this …
‘Lit crawl’ draws bookworms to compete in daylong marathon Four local bookstores took part in this year’s Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Challenge by Evan Thompson for HeraldNet, Tuesday, April 30, 2019 The bookworms began arriving as soon as The Neverending Bookshop opened its doors at 9 a.m. Saturday in Edmonds. They were there to get …
Earl Dizon is a beloved bookseller at Green Bean Books in Portland. He serves on the PNBA Awards Committee and spreads the love of books off-hours as a volunteer at his local library, too. Multnomah County Library recently featured him in their Volunteer Spotlight. “I want to get kids excited to read.” by Sarah Binns Good …
From Shelf Awareness January 30, 2019: Congratulations to Third Street Books, McMinnville, Ore., which celebrated its 15th anniversary. Owner Sylla McClellan wrote to customers: “Years ago my husband told me that I was basically unemployable. I’ve been self-employed for so long that I would make a lousy employee; too independent and not great at taking …
After a crazy fall, we decided not to host a Christmas Day friends-who-stayed-in-town dinner for the first time in several years. In thinking how we could do something with our time and freedom other than lay among the wads of wrapping paper, eat, watch football (me), my wife Megan came up with a brilliant idea. …
Linda Johns, beloved author and Seattle Public Library librarian, has a tremendous heart. Everyone in the Seattle book community can attest to her generosity of spirit, kindness, and dedication to helping readers. Now she has taken a great step toward protecting heart health by sharing her recent experiences surviving a heart attack. The heart attack …
