I really, really like a lot of books. But I don’t fall in love too often. Sometimes the relationship starts off in a friendly, comfortable, I-can-put-you-down-but-I’m-excited-to-see-you-again kind of way. As we progress, whenever I open the covers, I forget myself but also paradoxically feel that I’m becoming deeper, truer me. It’s all-encompassing and empowering. We’re better together, …
We’re doing an extended riff on the dating life here; roll along with us, okay? So, we’ve gone to the trouble of making some of these books more alluring and mysterious. And no, we’re not just taking pictures of them in front of sweet yachts. Give us a little credit here. We think more highly …
by Melissa Diamond for thedailyuw.com If you’re looking for a book this Valentine’s Day but aren’t in the mood for a typical romance novel, The Professor’s Wife by Nick DiMartino, UW graduate and book buyer at the University Book Store, might be just right. The launch party for the book took place Sunday afternoon at …
“Love may be the reason that poetry was invented and the world turns and the oceans weep, but with as many as have written and mulled over the subject, none have more adequately tossed it, mentally dismantled it or ruminated on it than Barthes has here. The most authoritative text on the most wily subject.”—Stephen, …
When Annie Bloom’s Books‘ February newsletter arrived promoting “books that are great for Valentine’s gifts, or that help explain one of life’s most powerful feelings” (it’s love they’re talking about), we poked around to see what other bookstores were up to in support of—or at least in response to—this chocolate-powered, pollen-laden lover’s holiday.
