Edmonds Booktalk

March is Women’s History Month, corresponding with International Women’s Day on March 8. Celebrate all of the women in your life. Because you can. And. Take a dive into some history you may not know. So many women have had such an amazing impact on our world. We owe it to them, [and to us!],…

First, a resolution update! I am quite pleased to announce that I read two graphic novels* in January. And I am a complete convert! I started with “Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir” by Roz Chast, the award-winning graphic memoir by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast about her parents’ final years. A…

Happy New Year 2020! Since you are here with me, I am going to take a wild guess that something reading-related may be on your list of resolutions. Read more? Read different? One of my resolutions: Read books outside my usual genres. I did something similar last year, and it was great! I purposely read…

December arrived even faster than usual this year. Edmonds Bookshop is here to help. The biggest news is that you can now buy gift certificates online! Any denomination you would like. We can send them to you, we can send them to the lucky recipients, or you can pick them up in the store… all…

November! The chill is in the air. Time for sweaters, mittens and cozy boots. And to make your lists! Our annual Holiday catalog will be out in the middle of November; in the meantime, here are a few ideas to get you started: Fiction: All recently published and staff recommended “A Better Man: Chief Inspector…

Welcome to September! There are many books we are looking forward to this fall, and we have been lucky enough to get sneak previews of a few of them…  and we are not disappointed! Here are a few of the highlights: “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood.  September 10, 2019. Possibly the most anticipated fall title![see…

Welcome to August! Still plenty of time to do some serious summer reading! Are you getting impatient waiting for the new Louise Penny? [Not too much longer! The new Inspector Gamache novel is coming Aug. 27!] Here are a few authors that we can recommend to make the wait a bit easier: Mark Pryor and his…

I have been on a memoir kick the last couple of months. Completely unintentionally, they all ended up being by women.  All quite different, from completely different points of view, different times of life, all quite good, and all highly recommended. Alphabetically by author: “All You Can Ever Know” by Nicole Chung.  A young woman…

It’s true. “The Game of Thrones” will be ending. Very soon. What will you read now?! Luckily, your favorite local Independent Bookshop has many suggestions for you! Well, OK, before we leave “Game of Thrones” completely – have you read the prequel? “Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones (a Targaryen History).”…

Happy Spring! One of our favorite book awards is the one presented by the Mystery Writers of America, The Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. The nominees for this years’ best first novel category, are: “A Knife in the Fog” by Bradley Harper “The Captives” by Debra Jo Immergut…

Where were you in 1972? It was quite the year! There were dramatic highs and lows: President Nixon visited China. Then later in the year there were a few missing minutes on a tape… Summer in Munich: Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals; at the same Olympics, 11 Israeli team members were taken hostage and…

February! A few of us here at the bookshop were comparing notes the other day; it turns out we are all in the midst of a binge-watching session. A couple of us are in the middle of season one of “The Handmaid’s Tale” [so good!]; someone else has watched the first episode of “Salt, Fat,…

Happy New Year! I am so happy to be able to start the year with some light: Barack Obama shared some of the books, movies and music he found most inspiring or thought-provoking in 2018, including works that he “just plain loved,” compiling them into a year-end list. (Look who uses Twitter for good!] His…

We are starting to wrap up a great year at here at Edmonds Bookshop.  A great big “thank you!” to all of you who make a point of making us your favorite local bookstore. We are here for you. And more importantly, we are here because of you. Thank you! And we look forward to…

It’s November already. And don’t look now, but Thanksgiving is really early this year. In an attempt to help, and to stave off complete panic, we invite you to stop by during Third Thursday Art Walk this month, Nov. 15, from 5 to 8 p.m., for our annual First Dibs night! Get some great ideas,…

It’s been a memoir kind of a year! An impressive number of great memoirs have been published from all different walks of life: actor; trucker; politician; spaceman; adoptee; holocaust victim; self-educated; priest for a daddy! Many with staff recommendations and great reviews… All available here at Edmonds Bookshop. In order of publication date: “Educated: A…

As much as I am sad to see summer come to an end, having a fall full of great books to look forward to certainly helps. Here are some of the titles that I am excited about. In order of publication date: “Lethal White” by Robert Galbraith. The new Cormoran Strike, finally! September 18, 2018….

The biggest news for us this summer: We are really very excited to announce a new website for browsing and ordering books online directly from Edmonds Bookshop: edmondsbookshop.indielite.org It’s true! [True news!] Our IndieLite site offers desktop and mobile users an easy way to browse, search for, and discover books, to quickly find a great…

It’s July and it’s time to head to the beach! (The sun should be back after the 4th, as usual…) A few books to inspire, inform, invigorate, instruct, and/or influence your next trip to the water near you! • “The Salish Sea: Jewel of the Pacific Northwest” by Audrey DeLella Benedict and Joe Gaydos. This…

Binge reading season begins! Time to get caught up on your series. Or start a new one! A brief list follows, just to give you a few ideas. All of the authors and/or series are recommended by at least one staff member here at Edmonds Bookshop. For middle grade readers: Peter Brown: “The Wild Robot”…

Happy Spring! Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13 this year, still plenty of time to come in and pick out the perfect book for your mom and anybody else you would like to thank for being a part of your life. We also have a great selection of cards, free gift wrapping — and we…

Spring is book season! So many great new books. So many great authors and so many great events happening at Edmonds Bookshop, so we’ll just get directly to the good stuff this month! April Events at Edmonds Bookshop. Saturday, April 7, 2018. Noon – 1 p.m. We will welcome author Jennifer Haupt and her brand…

Book awards for the year are well under way – lots of great books to add to your reading lists! PNBA in January announced the winners of the 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Awards: “American War: A Novel” by Omar El Akkad “The Book of Mistakes” by Corinna Luyken “Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color”…

Some of the best fiction is based in truth, with the authors doing an impressive amount of homework. The kind of stories where you find yourself not believing some of the things really happened, and then checking with Google… and finding out, yes! It really did happen! Here is a brief list of historical fiction…