It was a @mariasemple weekend for her old Seattle friends: watching her on stage @townhall_seattle trading zingers with @whoiskenjennings on Saturday night and hosting a book-signing visit at the store and doing some visiting with friends on Sunday. Her new novel, Go Gentle, is a heartful hoot, the kind of book for which the adjective “madcap” was invented—we’ve been trading our …
QUEEN ANNE BOOK COMPANY STAFF FAVORITE / LOCAL POET Site of Disappearance by Erin Malone “Everything I’m afraid of, / I’m about to name,” cautions the speaker of this haunting lyric in the sophomore collection from Washington poet, Erin Malone. Here, buried childhood memories of a brother’s death and a small-town murder return just as …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Sometimes the themes come from the covers, sometimes the titles. On this week’s list, we …
Jul
31
2023
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Ripe is red hot, blazing as fast as a comet. Every sentence keeps the tone in perfect place. This is a novel of workplace and existential dread, paralleled perfectly. I loved all the discussion about space, black holes, quantum physics, universe theories, etc. It’s something that I love to think about in general, and so …