Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. We thought it might be fun to have Thursday Themes where we shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list. Is it a trend? A coincidence? An eccentric millionaire seeking comfort by purchasing books from independent bookstores around the region …
Sweeping immigrant story of the first logging industries and labor unions in the Pacific Northwest. The Overstory by Richard Powers and Barkskins by Annie Proulx would make good bookends to this saga. –Sandy, Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, OR Can you think of some other good reading bookend recommendations? We’ll go next: Some books about resilient women– Educated, …
Three is… a crowd? Company? The magic number? Hell, it’s a lot of things and I’m going to add one more to the three ingredient pot: book recommendations. The NY Times can have their 100 and Buzzfeed can stick to 22 – my brain isn’t big enough to handle much more than three of anything …
National Book Award-winner Richard Powers (Orfeo) has crafted an epic environmental novel about the Pacific Northwest timber wars in the in the 1990s and the impending destruction of the last of the old-growth forests, whose trees might otherwise help save the earth. In the first half of the book, Powers devotes individual chapters to the lives …
