October 26, 2009 – 10:54 am
Shop Indie Bookstores In honor of Halloween week, here is Seattle Times pop critic Mark Rahne’s hilarious video tour of Forks, WA which any Twilighter knows is the setting for the Stephenie Meyer‘s vampire series. Whaahahahahaa…
This one reads like a movie. Boy meets GOHD (girl of his dreams) on a cross country flight. Sparks fly, girl gives guy her phone number, guy loses phone number with no other way of finding GOHD. Years pass, GOHD show up dating his best friend. The plot thickens. If you like light romance…this book [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This was my book club’s April pick. The story line revolves around Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book expert, who is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of a very REAL book known as the Sarajevo Haggadah ( a book used in the Jewish passover services). The book originated in Spain, during [...]
Lots happening this month in Jodi Picoult (PEA-koe) land. On Monday, USA Today ran a great profile piece on her idyllic sounding family life in Hanover, New Hampshire; Handle With Care, her 16th novel was released on Tuesday; and the movie version of My Sister’s Keeper starring Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin (Fans are apparently [...]
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 21, 2009 – 11:27 am
Shop Indie Bookstores Another LONG one from Mr. Lamb. If you liked the first 2 you will like this one also. It begins with the school shootings at Columbine HS and ends up in CT with the current story mixed in with the very interesting history of the main characters family. Lots of plot lines [...]
January 13, 2009 – 5:14 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores I loved this book. The main character is elderly & in assisted living & part of the book is about his life right now, but the main story is about his experiences as a young man working for a traveling circus during the Great Depression. Its fascinating & a book I hated [...]
January 13, 2009 – 5:11 pm
I enjoyed The Divide. Its the story of an interesting family & what divides them–the play on words is that the family vacations at a ranch called The Divide, and it is this place & the people they meet there that create the plot, which centers on the daughter who becomes an ecoterroist. Book Author: [...]
