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We Remember: September 11, 2001
Photo by Kate Larsen. This Sunday marks 15 years since the horrific September 11th attacks back in 2001. Four coordinated attacks killed nearly three thousand people and injured twice as many. I had...
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Reading Trendy: Collected Biographies of Women
Hypercolor T-shirts. Scrunchies. Slap bracelets. Spandex bodysuits. Mood rings. Tight-rolled acid-wash jeans. Trends come and go, and not just in the fashion world. The literary world has its fair...
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NaNoReMo
November is National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. Write-ins are happening all over the place, including the library. And some people even go a step further: they become published authors as a...
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All I Wanted for Christmas was Time to Read!
Time, that precious and fleeting commodity. Like sand through the hourglass indeed, time just seems to slip right through my fingers. As soon as I get some it’s already gone. Etc. Etc. I know you know...
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Heartwood 7:1 – Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
This blog post is prompted by the news that Shirley Hazzard died this past December at age 85. It’s kind of funny to me that I read this book without ever having read Graham Greene (though he’s long...
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Betty MacDonald and “The Egg” that hatched her career
Enjoy this post from Joan as she writes about all things Betty MacDonald: When Pacific Northwest writer Betty MacDonald’s first book, The Egg and I, was published in 1945 it was not just a hit, it was...
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Video Games, Seriously
Don’t tell anyone, but I’m pushing 50 and I play video games. There I said it. For those in a younger age cohort there is no shame in admitting and even championing the fact that they play. But for...
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#Squadgoals: Fellow Fat Girls
Every body is a real body. Let’s get that straight right away. Often I see people online describing “real bodies” as if there is only one type of body that counts. Counts for what, exactly, I’m not...
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All Over the Place with Geraldine DeRuiter
Dearest Reader, I have a special treat for you today. I caught up with Seattle-based blogger Geraldine DeRuiter, aka The Everywhereist, and asked her all the things. Not only is her first book, All...
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Non-Beach Summer Reading
As summer arrives in our neck of the woods, the library and publishing worlds are already knee-deep into summer reading season. Here at the library we think reading is great for all the year round, but...
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No Cape Required: Graphic Novels for the Uninitiated
Hey there, summer readers! Have you accepted our summer reading challenge? While the summer reading program for kids and teens has always been popular, I’m not convinced everyone has heard about our...
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And the Librarian Said, “Read This!”
How’s your summer reading challenge coming along? One of this year’s challenges is to read a book recommended by a librarian. Since I know you don’t always have time to chat when you stop in, I asked...
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Real Friends
Some things in life come easy to me. I’m excellent at pattern recognition, reading way past my bedtime, functioning on very little sleep (could these two things be related?) falling up the stairs...
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Fall Publishing Season is My Christmas
Oh TBR, oh TBR! Your books just scrape my ceiling. Some people love Halloween. For others they just can’t wait for Christmas. I’m definitely a fall publishing fanatic and that’s not just because my job...
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Deadly Titles
Reader’s advisory questions, basically finding a book for a person to read that matches their interests, can be one of the more difficult questions we try to answer here at the library. Everyone has...
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Put Yourself in Someone Else’s Narrative
My calendar tells me it’s 2018 but as I look around I see society backpedaling and losing ground on important concepts I used to think were simple, like personhood and what it means to be a human...
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Celebrating Black History Month: Mrs. Jennie Samuels
Portrait of Mrs. J.B. “Jennie” Samuels taken from a cookbook published by the Colored Women’s Federation of Washington. Nettie J. Asberry papers. University of Washington Libraries Special Collections....
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Tell Me All About You
Organized Chaos Modern Cat Lady The Only Carol I Know: Life with a Throwback Name I’d Rather Be Reading <insert heart eyes emoji> In case it wasn’t obvious, those are some of the potential titles...
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Read Like Library Staff Part 1
Hey hey, how’s your May reading coming along? Are you ready for another challenge? After all the reading challenges we’ve thrown your way, this month’s is my favorite because we’re essentially telling...
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Celebrate Pride and Read a Book
June is all about LGBTQ pride. I am proud to be a part of this community and for me, it is a time to celebrate who I am and remember all of those who have fought for LGBTQ rights. It is not just a time...
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