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Sep

27

2019

Kids + Dogs+ Books: Reading with Rover
at Third Place Books Ravenna in Seattle

Love to read? Having trouble reading? Try reading with a friend! Head to Third Place Books’s Ravenna location on Sunday, September 29th at 11am for a special visit from canine (and human) friends from the Puget Sound regional nonprofit Reading With Rover. This is a trial run with what Third Place Books hopes will become …

Jul

2

2019

Seattle Public Library Adult Book bingo logo 2019

Summer Book Bingo in Seattle

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 …

Jun

22

2018

PNW in NOLA: Children’s Booksellers
Attend National Conference

This week, booksellers from around the country with a specific interest in children’s books  gathered in New Orleans for the American Booksellers Association’s annual Children’s Institute, an annual educational conference that was hosted last year in Portland. I attended in my role as children’s book buyer for Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, but I …

Nov

8

2017

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

Dinner at the Center of the Earth
by Nathan Englander

Dinner at the Center of the Earth is a real tour de force with an unforgettable cast of characters: Prisoner Z who has gone from being a Mossad agent to traitor, a comatose general (who may be Sharon), the guard’s mother who could star in her own story. Many questions are posed and the answers, …

Feb

17

2017

Grown-up Storytime

Grown-Up Storytime at Ravenna Third Place Books

Yesterday was World Read Aloud Day, but at Ravenna Third Place Books in Seattle every third Monday of the month, grown-ups get their own read-aloud time! (Ravenna Third Place also offers a more traditional kids’ storytime today and every Friday at 11:00.) We were delighted to read all about the adults-only read-aloud recurring event, Grown-Up Storytime, …

Feb

13

2017

The Glass Universe

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel

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 …

Feb

29

2016

Magic hat

Ravenna Third Place’s Magic Mondays

Did you know that the second Monday of the month (in March, the 14th) at 7 pm, Seattle’s Ravenna Third Place Books hosts Magic Mondays? Each show features the Pacific Northwest’s finest magicians performing feats of mystery, wonder, and the bizarre. With its origins in the theaters of London and New York, Magic Monday is …

Jan

7

2016

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin

The story line is quite simple: Genly Ai has arrived on the planet Winter in an effort to enlist the people in a growing association of intergalactic civilizations. There are many layers to this classic science fiction novel, but foremost is the exploration of gender roles. On this planet, the people are androgynous and sexless …

Aug

6

2015

Baseball Codes

The Baseball Codes
by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca

Summer is here and baseball is in full swing. The greatest game has the written rules of the umpires and the unwritten code of the players. Turbow’s book sheds light on the Code using hilarious anecdotes of players past and present; tracking the evolution of the Baseball’s Code to the modern era. This book had …

Apr

9

2015

Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

Funny Girl
by Nick Hornby

“Populated with dreamers, artists, and writers, this fun novel gives a glimpse of an exciting time, as revolutionary ideas are brought the to screen and women gain independence at home and at work.” –Emily Adams, Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA Sounds like Funny Girl would pair very nicely with a copy of Rad American …

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