It’s time for a Thursday Theme, when we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. We’re highlighting one-word titles. Easy to type. Maybe not-so easy to search. Easy to buy. Easy to enjoy. Bewilderment Richard Powers (#6 Hardcover fiction) Crossroads Jonathan Franzen (#8 Hardcover fiction) …
By Amy Wang for The Oregonian/ Oregonlive.com September 18, 2021: “It’s happening! It’s really happening!” That was Portland author and musician Colin Meloy‘s delighted tweet on Wednesday. “I’m super excited to see what these guys do with Wildwood,” Meloy added. That would be “Wildwood” as in the 2011 children’s fantasy novel set in Portland’s Forest Park that put …
The illustrious illustrator behind The Wildwood Chronicles, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead and—a personal NWBL fave, sadly out of print—Stagecoach Sal, Carson Ellis now has a book all to her lonesome! Recommended: Read Home back-to-back with another classic book of dwellings, Mary Ann Hoberman’s A House is a House for Me, and grow your …
