“Explore the area and state of mind that is Siberia. Frazier’s love shines through in this obsessively researched yet amusingly haphazard travelogue. The funniest serious book I have read in a long time.”– SC, University Book Store, Seattle. Buy Travels in Siberia from University Book Store.
Cruising around on the University Book Store’s site the other day, we found the online home for one of our favorite pieces of bookstore merch from the last few years, the USED BUT NEAR FINE T-shirt (here for women’s, here for men’s). Remember? Longtime buyer Nick DiMartino wore it in this pic with his interview …
“For ALL animal lovers. Whether they like dogs or dolphins or donkeys, this little gem is the perfect gift. Factual, fantastical and fun reading and still in print after 1800 years!”– Mark M., University Book Store, Seattle. Buy Aelian’s On the Nature of Animals from University Bookstore.
“Murakami’s collection of short stories is like perfect sushi: dazzling to the eye, deceptively simple yet beautifully executed. Stark but not bleak—powerful—each story is a bento in itself.” —Ann, University Bookstore, Seattle
“Suburban Sweden in the 1980s turns out to be a natural setting for some supernatural events in this genre–defying pageturner. Yes, there are vampires, but this is definitely not Twilight. Like all good literary horror, the supernatural elements only serve to emphasize the human elements. Oskar, the protagonist, is one of the most realistically imagined …
“Forsythia is the narrator’s best friend, and she’s rambunctious and creative and brilliant. It opens like this: ‘Forsythia and I are best friends. She does things that amaze me.’ Awh, man! I want my friends to describe me that way. What a lot in one simple sentence. And who hasn’t had someone like that in …
“Lots of picture books, especially ones about school, are about the dark side. Separation anxiety, bad grades, bullying, scary new experiences, etc. And those are great. But other than Keisha Anna Can! I can’t think of one that is just a whole book about a totally capable kid celebrating how proud she is of herself. …
“’The World is a deaf machine.’ That quote is from a favorite picture book of mine, Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree. It’s being reprinted soon (as part of a bindup of three Tan-illustrated picture books), and I’m glad to hear it. The Red Tree is really a picture book for grownups, as many are, and …
Our favorite regional bookseller curmudgeon, who blogs as UsedBuyer2.0 and works daily at the University Bookstore in Seattle, has decided that what the independent bookstores need are their own t-shirts to bring back that huge wave of sales we all would like to see. For the last few days he has been posting his suggestions …
One of our favorite curmudgeons is at it again, bemoaning and praising public librarians in one long breath. What Brad Craft loves is what the libraries offer. What he hates is the way some people treat the libraries, both staff and patrons. At least that’s my reading of his diatribe. Craft has been reading aloud …
