Does summer weather make you think of summer reading challenges? Find your reading sunglasses, your favorite shady spot, a big water bottle, and start making your stacks of books to read! You have all year to work on Vintage Books’ 2025 Reading Challenge, but you could accelerate the timeline and do it as a summer …
The publisher describes Patrick Hutchison’s Cabin as a cross between Henry David Thoreau and Bill Bryson. Maybe a cross between “Uh uh, don’t do it” and “Are you out of your freakin’ mind?” is closer. Holding down dead end jobs while trying to launch his writing career is going nowhere. Hutchison spots an online ad, …
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty follows Feyi’s journey to find love years after a traumatizing accident upends her life. Decadent food descriptions and a lavish background make this book […] so hard to put down. –Alex, Browsers Books, Olympia, WA Treat yourself to books you can’t put down from Browsers Books …
Vintage Books is turning 50 on February 14th 2025! The store will host an in-store celebration February 14th-16th during store hours. There will be goodies, drawings, and lots of conversation. Write about your memories at the message center and view archival materials. The store invites you! “Please come and join us if you live nearby or …
Ahhh. Reading Eddie Winston is like a chocolate bonbon, that bit of sweet and touching, when the day has been a drag. Eddie is 91 years old and has never been kissed. And wants a chance to find love, real love. He works in a charity shop, where he salvages wee bits from donations, to …
I Need You To Read This. But not at bedtime, unless you are going to power through to the end! Alex’s new beginnings in New York City take a turn for the delightful when she is chosen to take over Dear Constance, the advice column read across the country. Constance’s previous writer had been murdered. …
Everyone hopes for a letter—to attend the Estuary, the Glades, the Meadows. These are the special places where only the best and brightest go to burn even brighter. When Eleanor is accepted at the Meadows, it means escape from her hardscrabble life by the sea, in a country ravaged by climate disaster. But despite its …
I loved this beautiful, affirming collection of speculative fiction centering the disability experience. Particular favorites were “A Balanced Breakfast,” by Eirik Gumeny, in which a cereal enthusiast accidentally summons a cosmic horror, “TheWarp and Weft of a Norse Villainesss,” by El Park, which reinterprets the Norse version of the three fates, and “The Rising Currents …
Remembering is an achingly beautiful, profoundly moving ode to the loss of a beloved pet. The young girl in the story is deeply saddened by the loss of her “constant companion”–a dog she clearly shared many days and experiences with, both good and bad. Her grief is palpable on her face, with the amazing illustrations reflecting …
When Frieda Hughes, poet, painter and home repair fanatic, found her marriage close to shattering and her health precarious, she moved to Wales, to a broken down home with a garden of despair. What more could a creative soul want—the garden, three dogs and, oh, yes, that wee chick of a magpie she found on the ground after …
