Winter Reading – Essays
Oregon’s Ancient Forests: a Hiking Guide by Chandra LeGue. Mountaineers Press, $26.95. Buy this book as a Christmas present for your favorite hiker, or that … Continue reading
Books Archive
Completing the Triangle
Nadav Kander, Jim Marshall and others bring the best photo books of 2019
Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture by Jim Marshall, Amelia Davis; compiled by Karen Grigsby Bates, Michelle Margetts, Joel Selvin and Meg Shiffler. Chronicle Books, $55. … Continue reading
Winter Reading Top Ten Lists
Smith Family Bookstore’s Holiday Book Recommendations 525 Willamette Street. 541-343-4717. SmithFamilyBookstore.com The Overstory by Richard Powers. W.W. Norton & Co., $18.95 Little Weirds by Jenny … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Poetry
Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems by Campbell McGrath. Ecco, $24.99. Campbell McGrath might be our best living poet. Combining the polymorphous acceptance of … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Nonfiction
Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Melville House Publishing, $16.95. I was mad when I picked up the new book Anthony Bourdain: The … Continue reading
Children’s Book Round Up
EW’s mom reviewer and her son weigh in
By Elisha Young and Atlas Our children’s book reviews may have received the most extensive scrutiny of any category. This quartet of books from Quarto Publishing … Continue reading
Real Comedy
Local comedian and author talks about her books and making real life humorous
Random Female Syndromes The Syndrome Mag. $12.99. Life is Funny Comedy Workout Publishing. $13.95. It is rare that people can become professional comedians, and yet … Continue reading
Eclectic Cookbooks
When it is cold outside, turn up the heat in the kitchen with these cookbooks
In an era when many of us turn to our favorite foodie website or app, it is fair to ask if cookbooks have become obsolete? … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Young Adult
A Girl’s Guide to the Wild by Ruby McConnell. Sasquatch Books, $16.99. A Girls’ Guide to the Wild is a practical, yet whimsical handbook put … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Memoirs
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate. Little Brown and Company, $27. In her first memoir, actress and comedian Jenny Slate fosters a garden of strange and … Continue reading