Perhaps you read Snyder’s bracing pamphlet, On Tyranny (or the Facebook post it was based on)—from its title, I had imagined this new, much larger book as an expansion of those ideas, but, while it’s written in the same level-headed-but-urgent tone (which Snyder’s voice for the audiobook perfectly represents), it’s doing something related but different, focusing less …
In Zumas’s all-too-familiar dystopia set in a small Oregon coastal town, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The narrative explores the complexity of childbearing — both the desire for and not for — and the reduction of a woman’s identity to such choices, braiding together the perspectives of a pregnant teen, a single teacher who …
Here is my teenage employee Emma Seckington [right] and another high school student from Moscow High School, Ari Carter, who helped organize Moscow’s March For Our Lives and was one of the emcees. I’m so proud of Emma! And I let her off work early so she’d get to the march on time. 🙂 My …
Simple and inspiring. We all have those days, when we’re afraid and sad because of the news; this book shows us how to step outside the fear “to make the world a better place.” Hand in hand, kindness by kindness, we can make a difference and win “a tiny battle over fear for [ourselves] and …
I LOVE this book! Karen Karbo is at her feisty best as she relates the “difficult” natures of her subjects. (The author of Eloise? Who knew?) –Cheryl McKeon, former bookseller at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA; currently the manager of Book Passage Ferry Building in San Francisco, CA Seattle area folks: Learn …
You think it’s just about bunnies, but then WHAM, it hits you with the evils of complacency and facism. I’ve read this so many times that my copy’s cover fell off years ago. –Dorie, Village Books, Lynden, WA Find oldies but goodies you’ve been meaning to read or revisit at Village Books and other independent …
On the afternoon of Election Day, 2016, shortly after the publication of our book, Dead Feminists, we gathered at the library of a local university with a large and supportive audience—mostly women, as usual—to share stories about our favorite dead feminists from our book. The mood was celebratory, including lots of hugs and even a …
One of the reasons I love this book is because the heroes of the story are badass bookish people. The other reason is that it explores an often overlooked aspect of World War II. With the many other atrocities committed by the Nazis, it’s easy to forget that they were waging another, quieter war on …
Amid the tumult and confusion of life in America—2017 style—we continue to stand fast by the adage that books are timeless curiosities that prove, over and over again, that we wander along a curious loop that perennially takes us around to a world that seems oddly familiar, yet strangely different. In the box this week …
A recommended reading list from James Crossley, our A Cup of News columnist: Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit, perhaps the best essayist writing today. She’s extremely knowledgeable about how America got to where it is (sample this London Review of Books think piece for some of her analysis of the current situation), and …
