It all started with Sara Crewe. Not even book (A Little Princess) Sara Crewe, but Shirley Temple-movie Sara Crewe in “The Little Princess” (1939). That was when I first fell in love with the idea of boarding school, even if I may not have thought of it in that way at the time. That’s not …
Whenever I travel, I can’t resist bookstores, and of course, while I’m browsing, I’m always looking for books I know and love. Above, I visited Book Passage in San Francisco, right in the Ferry Building. The store is managed by my friend and former Pacific Northwest bookseller, Cheryl McKeon. On the store’s staff picks, I found …
After the Golden Globes last weekend, I’m getting more excited about this year’s film adaptations of books. Flavorwire put together a great slideshow of 26 (!!!) movies coming in 2014 that were adapted from books. Did you know that the Coen brothers are adapting Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand? I wonder how that will affect the …
If you stopped into your favorite indie bookstore last week and didn’t see all the regular faces, it may have been because folks were in New York City for the annual BookExpo America, a.k.a. BEA. When you see them now, they may look verrrry tired because they’ve been up late every night reading advance readers …
