Spokane’s Wishing Tree Books is hosting a literary character pumpkin contest on social media. Wishing Tree invites you to carve or decorate a pumpkin as your favorite character or author this Halloween for our first ever literary pumpkin contest! How it works: There are two categories: Carved and Decorated. Once you have your literary pumpkin …
Congratulations to the 2020 Washington State Book Awards winners! Winners selected are outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2019. This is the 54th year of the program, formerly called the Governor’s Writers Awards. An award is given based on the strength of the publication’s literary merit, lasting importance and overall quality to an author …
Brick & Mortar Books of Redmond, WA fêted Ted Chiang for his win for Exhalation on Saturday, February 22, 2020. But there are more celebrations to come! Thursday, February 27, 2020, 6:00- 7:00 pm Wishing Tree Books, Spokane, WA Sharma Shields, The Cassandra Anne Walter, a friend and mentor of Sharma’s since she was a …
In 2008 I quit an all-consuming sales position in Missoula and tried to move with my husband to Lake Pend Oreille in the slim Idaho panhandle, where we hoped to rededicate ourselves to our writing. Mother nature had other plans for us, blanketing the Inland Northwest with record-breaking snowfall and rendering our little cabin in …
A Delicious Indie Assortment: Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle Imagine a set of cartoon characters who appear to be alien beings but who experience many of the same daily joys and frustrations that we do. Then imagine that these beings are somehow naive and curious AND wise, with complex vocabularies and gentle senses of …
When your stand-up comedy routines fail to entertain and your career is on the fritz, there’s nothing left but to join a gang of vigilante thieves and steal the luck from winners. When Theo Potiris gets sick and tired of the family grocery business and he can’t get a laugh out of anyone, his life …
On Saturday, October 12, 2019, booklovers gathered at the Seattle Public Library Central Library to celebrate books at the 2019 Washington State Book Awards ceremony and reception. The event was recorded for a podcast; as of this posting, it was not yet live on the website, but we will continue to check back here. The …
We know you’re never at a loss for what to read next, but just in case you want some summer reading inspiration, look at the wonderful titles by Washington authors and illustrators selected by bookseller and librarian judges. The 2019 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) are for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2018, …
This British cozy mystery series focuses on a talented but deeply flawed detective. Agatha Raisin smokes, drinks, and is incredibly vain–on the other hand, she sure loves her cats! She doesn’t do much investigating in this one, focusing mostly on her always messy love life, but as a fan I enjoyed spending time in Agatha’s …
My 20th reading of this existential classic (I read it once a year). A story whose narrator rides waves of sorrow, dread, and sometimes joy. Ultimately empty, but with hope. Exploring and explaining a world that both makes sense to human probing, but denies it at the same time. Favorite quote: “My memories are like …
