I generally don’t go for short stories, except maybe those by George Saunders or Kelly Link, but I love this author (and the book cover!) so I had to try it. As you might perhaps guess from the title, most of the stories have to do with family relationships but in so many different ways. …
This may not sound like summer reading material but it’s certainly very timely and is actually a pretty quick read. The author was a correspondent for the Economist and this is taken from a column called “Ask a North Korean.” His goal is to humanize North Korea and show that there are real people living …
As in her previous book, Uprooted, Naomi Novik combines folklore and fairy tale and creates something relevant and new. The story centers on Miryem, a young girl from a poor village who has taken over her father’s money lending trade. He has allowed his family to become practically destitute while most of the well-fed villagers …
Oooh, I just love a good holiday gift guide! So after I helped put one together for Queen Anne Book Company, I surfed the websites of the independent bookstores of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and found MORE. Take a browse. You might even want to share your favorite lists because not everyone is lucky …
“If you’re looking for a quirky character, meet Blue van Meer. She’s the adoring daughter of a brilliant college professor. She and her father traipse all over the United States, exploring, learning, reading and keeping to themselves. During Blue’s senior year of high school, they move to North Carolina, where Blue, for the first time …
“Before Diablo Cody was super-famous for writing the movie Juno she was just like the rest of us post-college twenty-somethings . . . approaching our looming corporate futures feeling uncertain, slightly terrified and very bored. Her solution, however, is what makes Candy Girl unique: Cody tackles her ennui by becoming a stripper. Candy Girl is …
Mandi Harris is the self-proclaimed “fiction fashionista” at the University of Oregon Duck Store. She started there in the book department while she was an English major at the university—and has been slinging books for four years. “Being surrounded by books and working alongside people who love them has made me extremely spoiled,” she says. “Plus, …
“This is by far the most gripping natural history of a predator that I have ever read. I would compare it to Barry Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men, but on steroids. Vaillant places the tiger in cultural, ecological and historical context, giving the reader a rich understanding of a frightening creature.”—Penny Hutchens, The Duck Store …
