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Mar

25

2020

Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris

WOW! I just completed Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris, her second book. It was as mindboggling as The Tattooist of Auschwitz, her first. The story is true but the author did not meet her subject. The story is based on interviews with Lale Sokolov, the subject of her first book, plus extensive research into the …

May

14

2019

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My Soul Is Filled with Joy

Seattle Author Karen Treiger Wins Independent Publishers Book Award

My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holocaust Story by Seattle author Karen I. Treiger received the bronze medal award from The Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) in the category of World History. “Conducted annually, the Independent Publisher Book Awards honor the year’s best independently published titles from around the world. The awards are intended …

Mar

15

2019

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Sharma Shields photographed by Rajah Bose

A Better World: An Interview with Critically-Acclaimed WA Author Sharma Shields

From my first encounter with Sharma Shields’ work, I was awed by her gifts with character, plot, mythology, and the most meaningful expressions of the human condition. From her Autumn House Award winning collection of stories, Favorite Monster, to the psychological devastation of the inner life revealed in The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, and now to …

Dec

6

2018

The Faithful Spy

The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix

In a year full of weighty political tomes, each grimmer than the last, I find myself in need of inspiration more than information. The Faithful Spy is both a salve for the weary soul and a much needed encouragement to brave action in dark times. In this slim volume, John Hendrix chronicles Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life, …

Oct

29

2018

The Order of the Day

The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard

The Prix Goncourt is France’s highest award for fiction, and the most recent recipient was Éric Vuillard for The Order of the Day. It’s an interesting choice for at least three reasons. First, it’s really good, like prize-winning good, written in crystalline sentences ably translated by Mark Polizzotti. Second, it’s not a bog-standard war story about generals and …

Aug

14

2018

Seattle7Writers Cook Up Some Fun (and Fundraising) with Summer BBQs

Seattle7Writers, the nonprofit collective of Pacific Northwest authors, partners with independent bookstores this summer to introduce readers to favorite authors and raise money for literacy nonprofits. In July, Island Books hosted the Seattle7Writers cookout to benefit Team Read, a nonprofit organization that pairs struggling young readers with trained teen reading coaches for one-on-one tutoring after school and …

Jun

15

2018

James Crossley

Books Gave Us Gravity: A Postcard from the Edge

Non-fiction for the cold, hard facts, fiction for flights of fancy. One grounds you while the other sets you spinning. Most of the time, maybe, but my experience this week perfectly inverts that paradigm. I’ve been reading a brand-new book from Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris, who is best known as the filmmaker behind such projects …

Sep

6

2017

Memoirs of a Wildlife Biologist

Memoirs of a Wildlife Biologist by
David B. Marshall

The autobiography of the late Oregon birder extraordinaire, David B. Marshall, Memoirs of a Wildlife Biologist, is available in limited supply exclusively at the [Audubon Society of Portland] Nature Store. Co-editor of the definitive 2003 OSU Press publication Birds of Oregon, Marshall illuminated his own life as a career biologist in this self-published work. It …

Aug

14

2017

The Book Thieves

The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
by Anders Rydell

One of the reasons I love this book is because the heroes of the story are badass bookish people. The other reason is that it explores an often overlooked aspect of World War II. With the many other atrocities committed by the Nazis, it’s easy to forget that they were waging another, quieter war on …

Dec

7

2016

Indestructible

Indestructible by John R. Bruning

I have rather eclectic tastes in history books, drawn to singular events or individuals that I’ve had no prior knowledge of, rather than those of a broader historical scope. Oregon writer Bruning brings to life the story of P.I.” Pappy” Gunn, an aviator whose skills as a pilot/mechanic/engineer in the Pacific theater of WWII is …

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