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Seattle Indie Booksellers on the Future of the Book

Last weekend, I went to the Friends of the Seattle Public Library’s annual meeting, which featured a panel discussion on “The Future of the Book” with four Seattle independent bookstore owners: Lara Hamilton of Book Larder, Danielle Hulton of Ada’s Technical Books, Debbie Sarow of Mercer Street Books, and Christy Dawn of Secret Garden Books. Are they feeling threatened in an era of Amazon and e-books? Their answers (paraphrased by me) might surprise you. Seattle City Librarian Marcellus Turner listens to Lara Hamilton, Danielle Hulton, Debbie Sarow, and Christy Dawn talk books. Lara Hamilton, Book Larder As the [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:53-07:00October 11th, 2013|

Guilt Trip

I just finished reading Elizabeth Becker's Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, and I kind of wish I hadn't — not because it isn't good, but because it opened my eyes to some of the significant negative impacts of international travel. I don't like having to feel bad about traveling, dammit! But it's hard to ignore the author's persuasive arguments about the immense environmental, economic, and historical damage we're doing through our unquenchable thirst for global travel experiences. You probably won't be too surprised to hear that cruises are among the most environmentally damaging kinds of international travel [...]

2023-07-03T14:32:41-07:00September 8th, 2013|Tags: , , , |

Traveling in Time

Without really planning it that way, I often find that themes pop up in the books I'm reading. Right now, it seems to be all about time travel, both fiction (The Shining Girls) and nonfiction (The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England). And if we're including movies too, I also recently saw "Safety Not Guaranteed," a weird and charming little indie time-travel romance. In fact, there's been so much time travel floating around my to-read pile lately that I'm working on a time-travel romance reading list — a subgenre that has more entries than you might expect! Stay tuned for [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:57-07:00July 21st, 2013|
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