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Jan

3

2020

A display table at Secret Garden Books in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood

From The Seattle Times:
Niche picks: A handful of Seattle neighborhood bookstores name their bestselling titles of 2019

By Paul Constant Special to The Seattle Times Neighborhood Reads If you want to learn about a Seattle neighborhood, browse the shelves of its independent bookstores. Local bookstores succeed when they place the interests and aspirations of their neighbors over the fads and excesses of national bestseller lists. And every time we buy books from …

Oct

4

2019

Neverending Bookshop logo illustration

From The Seattle Times: “A fairy tale in Edmonds: The Neverending Bookshop is a crafty destination for fantasy lovers”

by Paul Constant for The Seattle Times Once upon a time in Kingston, Kitsap County, a little girl fell in love with books. Annie Carl was born with a rare spinal birth defect called a lipomyelomeningocele — a fatty deposit at the base of her spine a little bigger than a pea. It’s a condition …

Jun

4

2019

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remark

Shelves of books to mail at Books to Prisoners

Queen Anne Book Company Supports Books to Prisoners

In the Spring of 2019, troubling news rapidly spread through the Washington state book community that the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) had quietly banned free, used books from being mailed to prisoners through non-profit organizations like Seattle’s Books to Prisoners. After public outcry and the investigative journalism of Joseph O’Sullivan of the Seattle …

Sep

18

2018

Hugo House open house event image

Hugo House Open House September 22, 2018

Lovers of literature in Seattle: celebrate the new home of Hugo House, “a place for writers,” on Saturday, September 22 from 5:00- 8:00 pm. The new space is at 1634 Eleventh Avenue, on the corner of Eleventh and East Olive — “10,000 square feet designed by and for writers and readers.” Hugo House invites the public …

Aug

15

2018

Match Book logo

What Would You Recommend?

This is a link we’ve had in the files for quite some time now… Even though the titles aren’t quite so fresh, it’s still a fun tool. The Seattle Times created interactive book recommendations based on reviews from the paper. You know what’s even more fun, though? Visiting a local independent bookshop to ask a bookseller …

Dec

29

2017

The Seattle Times features Poet Lucia Perillo

The Northwest author, who died last year, left behind a collection of whip-smart, stylishly brilliant work. By Jeff Baker, Special to The Seattle Times. When Lucia Perillo read her poems at a restaurant in Portland last year, her readers showed up to let her know what she meant to them. One by one, they approached …

Sep

23

2016

Looking for Betty MacDonald

Looking for Betty MacDonald
(from The Seattle Times)

By Michael Upchurch Special to The Seattle Times Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and I by Paula Becker University of Washington Press, 221 pp., $29.95 Seattle writer Betty MacDonald (1907-1958) was a beloved best-selling humorist who wrote about her life with a biting sense of the absurd. But if she’d …

Sep

12

2012

Coplin Well Received
on ‘Well Read’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4CR6Hj31-k Terry Tazioli has a great interview with Amanda Coplin on his cable TV program Well Read. Coplin’s debut, The Orchardist, is getting both acclaim—called “a stunning accomplishment” on NPR—and lots of readers (It was number five on the Pacific NW indie bestseller list this week). After the interview, Mary Ann Gwinn, the book editor …

Jul

28

2011

Something for Nothing by David Anthony

“Martin Anderson is a 44-year-old adolescent. He’s married to a good woman, has two appealing kids, owns a business that buys and sells used private airplanes and he’s a really nice guy. But he has never grown up. It’s 1974, and times are not as tough as in 2011, but surprisingly similar: oil is scarce …

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