Snuggle In and Read
Pull up the easy chair. Light the fire. Pour yourself a relaxing beverage of choice and settle in for a good night’s read. No easy … Continue reading
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Nerdy Nonfiction
Win At All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception by Matt Hart. HarperCollins, $29.99. Even the most noble athletes don’t train naturally, … Continue reading
Travel
Pacific Crest Trail: From the California Border to Canada by Jordan Summers. Wilderness Press, $29.95. For anyone who has ever remotely thought about hiking the … Continue reading
Literary Fiction
Jack by Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27. This is the fourth in a series that began with Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set … Continue reading
Graphic Novels
Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams by Michael Allred, Steve Horton and Laura Allred. Insight Comics, $39.99. David Bowie’s life was a colorful one, and … Continue reading
Teen Fiction
By the Book: A Novel of Prose and Cons by Amanda Sellet. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $ 17.99. I was a geek as a child and … Continue reading
Illustrated Inspiration
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. HarperOne, $22.99. Although this was published in 2019, we want to include it … Continue reading
Winter Reading 2019
Completing the Triangle Real Comedy Eugene In 1970 Children’s Book Round Up Eclectic Cookbooks Winter Reading Top Ten Lists Winter Reading – Fiction Winter Reading … Continue reading
Winter Reading
fiction All Coyote’s Children by Bette Lynch Husted. Oregon State University Press, $18.95. (Oregon author) The road less traveled is one of forgiveness and acceptance. … Continue reading
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Science Fiction
Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis. St. Martin’s Press, $27.95. Hugo Award finalist Lindsay Ellis is one of the sharpest media critics working today. Her YouTube … Continue reading
Not Trump
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Crown Publishing, $45. A Promised Land reads like Barack Obama is speaking to you — in that unique way the … Continue reading
Trumpery
Rage by Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster, $27.95. For all of the books out there on Trump, Bob Woodward’s reporting will most likely be the … Continue reading
“Lamina”
A short story by Eliza Master
Now Johnny’s gone. Tyana texts from the window sill. Her legs dangle outside. She won’t tell Max where Johnny went. An updraft blows her skirt … Continue reading
Master of Horror
Just in time for Halloween, Eliza Master talks about the benefits of a really horrible imagination
The great thing about reading horror stories, Eliza Master says, is that they allow us to explore our darkest impulses without actually having to do … Continue reading
Addicted
A Seattle singer-songwriter faces the music three decades after Cobain
The Seattle music scene of the ’90s that gave rise to a slew of now legendary bands — Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, to name … Continue reading