From The Seattle Times May 20, 2025 Bethany Jean Clement, Seattle Times food writer Partway through the first page of Moira Macdonald’s debut novel “Storybook Ending,” I started crying. Not with sorrow — the novel starts with the most intriguing two sentences, then takes us directly into the luminous, cinematic mind of one of the …
Locally-owned and operated Molly Moon’s Seattle ice cream shops invited their customers to participate in a Social Justice Book Drive and promoted shopping for it with local, independently-owned bookstores in each of their scoop shop neighborhoods. Molly Moon’s will deliver donated books for kindergarten- 5th graders featuring Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latine/a/x, and other characters of …
The first 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards celebrations have taken place! More are planned! Amy Hevron— Log Life, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA 2/11/25 Tara Karr Roberts— Wild and Distant Seas, Book People, Moscow, ID 2/13/25 Cat Bohannon— Eve Ravenna Third Place Books, Seattle, WA, 6:00 pm 2/26/25 Chris LaTray— Becoming Little Shell, Fact …
Beloved bestselling author Tom Robbins died this week at the age of 92 at his home in La Conner, WA. Robbins was an influence and friend to many in the Pacific Northwest literary world. The fact that his backlist has remained so available is testament to his talent and popularity. Here is just a sampling …
What does a meaningful life consist of? One answer is the tender and thoughtful story of family told in the new novel by Jonathan Evison that explores the beautiful complexities of long term companionship. –Robert Sindelar, Third Place Books, Seattle, WA Johnathan Evison will tour starting tonight, January 7, 2025, with a launch party at …
This Saturday, November 30, is Small Business Saturday, a day that independent bookstores celebrate as Indies First– a day that reminds us to prioritize independent bookstores for holiday shopping and year-round. Shopping locally and independently strengthens communities, reduces carbon footprints, and helps keep our neighborhoods unique and thriving. When the bomb cyclone hit the Pacific …
Sparks fly in a steamy encounter between Meg and a mystery man on the ferry– but finds out later that that man is Ethan Fine, an environmentalist with plans to convert her community’s decrepit pickleball court into wetlands. As it happens, he’s also a fan of the sport… The ever-growing pickleball has made its way …
This dizzying, death-leaning new classic could see a cult following beyond 2024. In Philip Roughton’s expert hands (he’s the translator of several Halldór Laxness novels, after all), Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson writes my favorite kind of novel: one that measures every maudlin, throbbing emotion of the human experience; one that trusts the intelligence and …
What am I supposed to do while I wait for the next book in this duology? Wait? This entire book is great but the last 20% blew me out of the water. Arthie, Jin, and Flick are incredible characters and Hafsah Faizal does incredible things with them. I think a lot if books get “If …
A middle-aged woman wakes up and finds an invisible wall has been put up, a little ways outside where she is staying. This wall extends infinitely and everything beyond the wall is frozen in time. She finds no people living near her. She is terrified and thinks it might be some military experiment gone wrong. …
