From The Seattle Times May 20, 2025 Bethany Jean Clement, Seattle Times food writer Partway through the first page of Moira Macdonald’s debut novel “Storybook Ending,” I started crying. Not with sorrow — the novel starts with the most intriguing two sentences, then takes us directly into the luminous, cinematic mind of one of the …
I read this for a course on race and justice. And I found this to be an excellent book on an often difficult subject. Honest, forthright, thoughtful, painful and hopeful—this book is exactly what I needed to read at this moment in our nation’s history. Highly recommended. — James, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA …
How do most folk end up in the jobs they’ve got? A bit like religion, parents have a lot to do with it: there’s an identity there, a self-making in the day to day ofwork. Familiarity, too, seems to matter: the idea of a life and what it could look like. It’s not just about …
I moved to Washington State more than 25 years ago. And over the years, I’ve enjoyed getting to know this place through hiking, camping, and road tripping in almost every region of the state. Of all the places I’ve visited, Olympic National Park is my favorite. Its tidepool populated coastline, its moody, mossy trails, and …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2025 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. …
Seattle’s Phinney Neighborhood Association, in partnership with their local bookstore, Phinney Books, will host their 15th annual Holiday Bookfest Saturday November 23, 2024 from 2:00- 4:00 pm at Phinney Neighborhood Association, 443 N 67th St, Seattle, WA 98103. More than two dozen authors will be on hand for the 15th Holiday Bookfest! Books are great …
Illustration and video by WA author and illustrator Suzanne Kaufman The text at the bottom of her illustration of kids holding “VOTE” signs says, “Vote because we can’t.” If you are registered to vote, please exercise your right! Our future depends on it.
For the first time, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) unveiled its Book Awards Shortlist live on the show floor at the association’s Fall Tradeshow, Sept. 30, 2024. These honorees are now being promoted throughout PNBA’s 160 store membership. Selected by an Awards Committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, the …
The Washington Center for the Book announced the winners of the 58th annual 2024 Washington State Book Awards. Congratulations! Books for adults Creative Nonfiction/Memoir: “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City” by Jane Wong, Seattle (Tin House Books) Fiction: “The Laughter” by Sonora Jha, Seattle (HarperVia) General Nonfiction/Biography: “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to …
Local favorite Cherie Priest is back this week with The Drowning House, a suitably gothic ghost story about a house that washes ashore, the woman who knows its secrets, and the pair of childhood pals who must put aside old rivalries to figure out the mystery of the house that has come back from the …
