Last night I was one of a hundred adoring fans that turned out to hear our very own former Seattle Public Library librarian, Nancy Pearl, do what she does best, tell us whats good to read. The focus on this evening’s event was summer reading or as quoted in The Seattle Times piece promoting the [...]
You have to love Britain’s new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Not only is she the first woman ever to hold the office, but she also: is a mom who happens to be openly gay; plans to donate her annual stipend (roughly $8500 a year) to fund an annual poetry prize; made it clear she [...]
Fans of Swedish author Henning Mankell are in for a treat. On May 10th, PBS will begin airing the Wallander series which first aired on BBC One last November and December. Each three 90 minute episode is based on one of the ten police mysteries that make up the Wallander series. The series was produced [...]
Tomorrow I’m headed off to San Francisco to spend the weekend at the beach with ten plus fabulous friends. It’s an annual event. We call ourselves the Stinson Beach Babes. Each year I go, I return home with aching cheek muscles from all the talking and laughing. Our friendships go back some 30 years. Back [...]
Alexander McCall Smith fans (visit his website…it’s fantastic), stay tuned. This Sunday night, March 29th, HBO will begin airing the very popular The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency . For those of you unfamiliar with these warm hearted whodunits, Detective Agency is a series of nine novels (#10 due out in April -Tea Time For [...]
February 27, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Last night, I ventured out to hear Abraham Verghese read from his new book Cutting for Stone at Elliott Bay Book Co. You know a very special author is in town when Rick Simonson is on hand to greet and introduce the author of the evening. Unlike some authors that seem to travel through town [...]
February 23, 2009 – 1:02 pm
I am giving away a signed copy of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (read about his Seattle visit) as part of the BookroomReviews.com Book Giveaway Carnival. To enter, simply leave a comment on this post. The winner will be chosen at random on Sunday, March 8th. All readers are eligible, but you must be [...]
January 25, 2009 – 10:50 am
January 2009 has been a very good month for humanitarian and author Greg Mortenson. Not only has he been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize but he and his daughter, Amira, launched the Young Readers edition of ‘Three Cups of Tea’ this past week on the Today Show.
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January 23, 2009 – 6:09 pm
Best selling author Douglas Preston has written and in some ways become a character in his own non-fiction account of a serial killer that stalked the hills of Florence, Italy in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Preston’s investigation of the murders with co-writer Mario Spezi and the making of the book, “The Monster of Florence”, was [...]
