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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (a Mostly True Memoir)
I say inappropriate things. I mean, they just fall out of my mouth. That little voice inside my head is always saying “Ohhhhh, I can’t believe she just said that. I’m glad I’m in here and not out...
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Freddie For a Day
I wasn’t fortunate enough to grow up in a time when Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, was alive and popular. I didn’t start listening to music until the 90s and sadly by then he was gone. That...
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Who to Be for Halloween
Do you dress up for Halloween? I do, but it’s not always easy to think of a great costume, is it? Stella Ehrhart, age 8, of Omaha, Nebraska, has no such trouble. She opens her book, 100 Most important...
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I Ain’t Got No Home
A group of young men posing with bedrolls. Picture scanned from the Everett Public Library Archives I ain’t got no home, I’m just a-roamin’ ’round, Just a wandrin’ worker, I go from town to town. And...
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It’s the Final Countdown
So we’re finally there – the week of the alleged Maya apocalypse. For those of you who have managed to avoid the hype, the world is supposed to end on December 21, 2012. At this point the coverage has...
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Dwarf: A Memoir
I’m so short that at the age of 35 I still have to hop up on the kitchen counter if I want to get something from a high shelf. Sure, I could get the step stool but I’ll hop up there while I’m still...
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Voices in Your Head
Not to cast aspersions on your sanity, dear reader, but in all likelihood you often hear a voice in your head. I’m not talking about a sinister whisper suggesting unspeakable acts, like eating that...
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Timothy Egan and Nancy Pearl at the Library!
I hope you know that you’re invited to a free public literary event with Timothy Egan and Nancy Pearl on Saturday, April 6th at 7 PM at the Everett Performing Arts Center. This should be a great...
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Questionable Things
Due to my exposure to the Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius at a formative age, I’ve always had a weakness for biographies of historical figures with a healthy amount of scandal. There is an...
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Reading Every Day, In Every Way: a Bibliovore’s Dilemma
I have a problem. No, it’s not one you can help me with. If I went to a psychiatrist, they wouldn’t know what to do with me either. Book club? Maybe that’s the ticket—though I have to admit to an...
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She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Sister
When I was in elementary school I knew a pair of twins, Sarah and Norah. Looking back, I’ve tried to figure out which one was good and which one was bad; which one would go on to have success and which...
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Free Author Talk Featuring Daniel James Brown
Mark your calendar for 2 PM Sunday, October 13th for a special visit with Daniel James Brown, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold...
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History Remembers, History Forgets
Throughout history, there have always been moments that define a generation. For my parents’ generation it was always, “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?” Wait. Stop. This woman is writing about a...
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The Quest
With the holiday season already far in the rear-view mirror, and the joys of summer still months off, I’m deep into winter escapist reading. This season I seem to be drawn to books about people on...
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If I Could Turn Back Time
Excuse me for inviting you to buy into our youth-obsessed cultural stereotypes, but have you ever wanted to look, feel, or actually be younger? Turns out all of these are possible, although the last...
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When History Splashes Off the Page
You may recall I gave myself a list of reading challenges for 2014. They are all self-imposed and they all just randomly fell out of my brain one day in a burst of madness inspiration. Whether this is...
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The Best Laid Plans
As you may recall, gentle reader, in June I devised a list of interesting non-fiction titles to guide my summer reading. Well the good news is that I have been reading non-fiction. The bad news is...
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Band Books Week
Just last night I was thinking how indescribably important music is to me. I started playing organ at age 4, then guitar, viola, trumpet, French horn, mandolin. And along the way I began composing and...
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Just the Facts, Ma’am
The other day I was walking out with an armload of books on CD, and Richard our audio book selector got all excited because he thought I was getting non-fiction (something he’d like to see checked out...
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Heartwood Favorites – 14 from ’14
Below you’ll find the list of books published this year that I most enjoyed. Heartwood readers know that my main reading interest is older international literary fiction, but I also read new releases,...
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