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 …
Many booksellers from the Pacific Northwest are in Pittsburgh for the annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute. Some participants got to tour independent bookstores. When we go to bookstores in different parts of the country and the world, we love to spot PNW authors and illustrators on the shelves. At Riverstone Books in the Squirrel …
From the Libro.fm blog It’s strange to call someone on the phone—someone you’ve never met—after listening to them speak for ten hours. It’s even stranger when that person turns out to be as wry as the main character in the book they narrated. We spoke with Kathleen Wilhoite, a singer and actress who played Liz …
If people walked around with authors’ names on their jerseys there would be almost as many “SEMPLE”s here as “SHERMAN”s and “WILSON”s, and the stadiumful of Where’d You Go, Bernadette? fans (me included) will feel right at home in her new book, the story of a smart, snarky, somewhat unhinged woman careening through her adopted …
The boatbuilding family in Jim Lynch’s latest novel, Before the Wind, is imperfect and unpredictable, sometimes working together seamlessly, other times colliding and combustible, mystified by their differences. Josh, the protagonist and middle child, is the last to leave the crumbling family home, while his siblings range around the world and his parents continue in …
“When Bobby [Tichenor, store owner, Annie Bloom’s Books], Will [Peters, store manager] and I [Mary Fellows] all love a novel, you know something unusual is going on. In this case it’s a funny, edgy, good-hearted send-up of all things Seattle, in particular a badly-located, upper-crust private school. But behind all the cleverness is a really touching, …
The Awards Committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its shortlist for the best books of 2012 by Northwest authors. These 12 books and their authors are the nominees. The PNBA Awards Committee is made up of nine volunteer booksellers from throughout our region. This year they considered more than 200 titles published in …
