The folks at BookBeast went to Nielson BookSkan for 2011 sales figures to determine What America’s Reading: Bestsellers By City. The cities were selected by their size, LARGE. Interesting that of the ten metropolitan areas surveyed, only Washington, D.C., Boston and San Francisco made the 2011 most literate cities list. This got me thinking about just what books Seattleites [...]
Shop Indie Bookstores This book pleasantly surprised me. I thought the format the author used to tell the story from a prosecutor’s perspective as he slowly learns that his son is the primary suspect in a murder that he is investigating was brilliant. Good read. Book Author: William Landay This post was submitted by helen.
As I free associate, enjoy the book links: April…spring….showers…flowers…GARDENING Shop Indie Bookstores Each year, the American Horticultural Society recognizes outstanding gardening books published in North America with its annual Book Award. The 2012 winners cover the gamut from holistic orcharding (I didn’t know that was a word) to small green roofs. My favorite? Nikki Jabbour’s The [...]
February 20, 2012 – 3:58 pm
Nancy Pearl is a former Seattle Librarian who has picked up a national following with her Book Lust series. She is a regular commentator on NPR and was named Library Journal’s 2011 Librarian of the Year. Pearl recently shared with KUOW’s Steve Sher which spring titles she was most looking forward to reading. http://kuow.org/program.php?id=25612 In [...]
February 6, 2012 – 6:51 pm
Valentine’s Day and love stories go hand in hand. So, for your February reading pleasure, here are three very good novels each with a different love story to tell. Shop Indie Bookstores The Paris Wife by Paula McLain I loved this book. I thought the author did an incredible job of showing the raw emotional sides of [...]
January 18, 2012 – 5:03 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Consider this one for your book club. It’s about a Tutsi boy, Jean Patrick, whose dream it is to run track in the Olympics. We follow him and his family during the 10 years that lead up to the genocidal war in Rwanda. Well researched, well written. Book Author: Naomi Benaron This [...]
January 18, 2012 – 3:36 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Fans of Downton Abbey, the UK-produced drama about the Crawley family and their servants that PBS imported for Masterpiece Classic, will be happy to know that NY publishers have taken notice. In addition to the companion book, The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes, dozens of 20th century novels about the British aristocracy are being rushed [...]
January 4, 2012 – 4:58 pm
Happy 2012 readers! Even tho’ I can’t predict what new titles will become this year’s hot reads, I did run across a few note worthy trends that book insiders are betting on and buzzing about. Contemporary dilemma-type titles, sequels of classic tales, YA/adult crossover titles and short story collections are just a few of the fiction trends [...]
December 11, 2011 – 4:54 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores From a Washington Post review (because I can’t say it any better), “To say that Nicolle Wallace’s “Eighteen Acres” is one of the best novels I’ve read about life in the White House may be faint praise — there haven’t been many good ones — but her book is both an enjoyable [...]
December 9, 2011 – 6:07 pm
Don’t ask me where the month of November went. Somewhere between dishing out the Halloween candy; creating a book group blog for The Mercer Island Patch; attending my first ever ACBL bridge convention over Thanksgiving weekend; finalizing the refinancing of our home; celebrating my mom’s 96th birthday and creating a family photo Christmas calendar… the days simply [...]
