Tag Archives: beach reads

Many Ways To Experience NPR’s Beach Read List

July 30, 2009 – 12:24 pm

NPR just released the top 100 favorite summer reads as voted on by their listeners.  After perusing the list ,  I couldn’t help but think of those wonderful Mastercard Priceless spots. NPR Audience Picks: 100 Best Beach Books Ever Straw hat, sunscreen, favorite pair of sunglasses:   $163.00 23  books read:   $601.45 21  movie [...]

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Summer Reads – Airplane Reads

June 9, 2009 – 7:12 pm

Having  just flown to Atlanta, GA and back, I can appreciate these Nancy Pearl recommendations for easy, breezy reading.  All descriptions and comments about each book are from the copious notes I took when I attended Nancy Pearl’s Summer Reading List event. Note:  Plan ahead.  Four out of the six titles are books you most [...]

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Nancy Pearl’s Reading Wisdom

June 3, 2009 – 10:06 am

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 [...]

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More Summer Reading

May 27, 2009 – 5:40 pm

It is not yet officially summer and I am already feeling the need to play catch up with my reading before I can even consider looking at some of what industry insiders are claiming to be this summers best bets. Come July, Knopf Publishing is releasing the second book in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, The Girl [...]

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Let The Summer Reading Begin

May 20, 2009 – 6:16 pm

For those of you escaping for a long Memorial Day weekend, you will be happy to know that the following books are out in paperback.  Easy to pack and easy to read.  Enjoy! The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Audition by Barbara Walters.  The veteran TV [...]

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Summertime…and the reading is easy.

June 22, 2007 – 7:58 pm

You can’t alway tell that summer has arrived, especially in the Seattle area, where we usually don’t count on warm, dry weather until after the fourth of July. What you can count on, however, is a slew of recommended summer reads put out by various print book editors. Summer is the season that publishers use [...]

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