I think Stretchy McHandsome just stole my heart and won the honor of being my favorite picture book of the year. Stretchy the butterscotch boy is one of nine cats in the McHandsome clan–the youngest, in fact! He sets off on a vacation from his loving but crowded home, and that’s only the beginning. My …
Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts and Lectures put together another fun summer reading challenge this year– Book Bingo for adults and teens! Again this year, one of the squares is “recommended by a librarian or independent bookseller.” Many Seattle area stores have even printed out copies of the bingo cards for customers who want …
‘Lit crawl’ draws bookworms to compete in daylong marathon Four local bookstores took part in this year’s Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Challenge by Evan Thompson for HeraldNet, Tuesday, April 30, 2019 The bookworms began arriving as soon as The Neverending Bookshop opened its doors at 9 a.m. Saturday in Edmonds. They were there to get …
Independent bookstores don’t have the space to carry every title, but they celebrate your freedom to read. This week, many stores created displays to raise awareness of censorship through Banned Books Week (September 23-29, 2018). From University Book Store in Seattle: We’re with the Banned. In celebration and anticipation of 2018’s top 10 banned books, we’re …
Sanae Ishida celebrates her third children’s picture book with a special promotion starting this Saturday at seven Seattle independent bookstores: Elliot Bay Book Company Kinokuniya Books Lake Forest Park Third Place Books Liberty Bay Books Phinney Books Queen Anne Book Company University Book Store Sanae is dropping off an amazing hand-made kame (turtle) submarine like …
A huge thanks to all the readers who came out on Saturday to support our fundraiser. On behalf of our customers, we are sending $7,488.00 to @RAICESTEXAS ! If you want to contribute directly, you can do so here : https://t.co/DddGnETNvM pic.twitter.com/wf8Az8ivZg — Third Place Books (@ThirdPlaceBooks) June 27, 2018 Third Place Books in Lake …
On Saturday, April 28, 2018, people celebrated Independent Bookstore Day around the country. The Pacific Northwest was chock-full of bookish delight! We love this recap of Independent Bookstore Day/ Seattle Bookstore Day from adventurers/bloggers Emily and Aaron of Two Dusty Travelers: “twodustytravelers 12 hours. 2 ferries. 123 miles. 19 independent bookstores. 2 @seabookstoreday Grand Champions!! 🎉🏆 We bought …
by Peter Kelley for UW News, June 5, 2017 A popular podcast by Joe Janes of the University of Washington Information School is now a book. Documents that Changed the Way We Live is being published … by Rowman & Littlefield. Since 2012 Janes, an iSchool associate professor, has written and produced episodes of a podcast about the origin …
University Book Store‘s branch in the Husky Union Building at the center of the school’s Seattle campus has many things going for it, but “the reason this store is great is because of one guy: Nick DiMartino,” the Stranger reported. “I am doing everything I can to keep literature alive on campus,” DiMartino said. “That’s …
Domenico Starnone’s Ties is an expertly crafted short novel that is charmingly intimate, disarmingly chatty and laced with some walloping surprises. Its Italian publication so captivated Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri (whose memoir In Other Words documents her study of Italian) that she translated the novel into English, and superbly so. The novel is a meditation on love–what is …
