Great news rang out in the bookselling world this week when Carol Santoro, owner of Santoro’s Books for 29 years, announced that she sold the brick-and-mortar bookstore in the Phinney/Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle to author Tom Nissley (A Reader’s Book of Days) and his wife Laura Silverstein (owner of Glittersweet, the local company behind the …
“Jude and Teddy are best friends living in a small Vermont town in the late 1980’s, getting drunk on cheap red wine and sniffing coolant from air conditioners. Jude’s mother, Harriet, and father, Les, are aging hippies still immersed in the pot culture of the 60’s, although divorced from each other. Harriet makes glass bongs …
Today’s Face Out offers a rave for a gorgeous arty kids’ book called Seasons from Carol Santoro, of Santoro’s Books in Seattle. Seasons is the kind of book you have to pick up and turn its pages to really get. Santoro says she’s displaying it as part of a section called “Books You Must Touch,” …
“The author, a French comics illustrator, has created a wonderfully engaging children’s/graphic art book for all ages. It’s a tour through the seasons, with each page depicting a scene or object reminiscent of that time of year. The artwork is somewhat retro and the mood varies from being playful to sometimes ironic (as ‘fragrance’ leads …
