Edmonds Booktalk

Happy New Year! Perhaps our favorite column of the year… Edmonds Bookshop best sellers of 2023. For some reason we are always surprised! Which is just so much fun! A…

The festivities have begun! Shop for your people, or yourself. We have all kinds of great suggestions. Here are our staff favorites for the year, which also of course would…

The fall preview column — one of our favorite times of the year! Turns out there are way too many great books coming this fall,  so I concentrated on the…

Here are a few of our staff recommendations for the rest of your summer reading — and don’t forget to check our staff-recommended shelves next time you are in the…

July so soon! Summer Reading Book Bingo presented by Seattle Arts + Lectures. Download your copy of the Adult Bingo Card, The Kids Bingo Card and/or Lotería de Lectura [Para…

June! We are so ready for summer [and what a great start it’s been!] – and summer reading. Here are a few suggestions for the kids’ summer reading… Let’s start…

Mother’s Day is May 14 this year – we have many lovely cards to choose from and we would be very happy to help you select a book for any…

April is National Poetry Month! And Washington State just got a brand new Poet Laureate. Congratulations to Arianne True, who will take over from Rena Priest in May for her…

March is Women’s History Month. The theme for 2023 is “Celebrating Women Who Tell our Stories!” It’s like they made it all about bookshops this year – excellent! Half of…

The ‘littlest’ month is a great time for a list of all the cute little books that we have in the shop! All of a sudden it seems like there…

Happy New Books! There are so many great books scheduled to be published this year. Here is a partial list of titles that we are particularly looking forward to in…

December! So many great books and all kinds of other great gift items on shelves everywhere in the bookshop: calendars [wall, engagement, page-a-day, mini-wall], tote bags, note cards, socks, fancy…

No idea what happened to October. [Or September to be honest…] But here we are: November! Ready or not. We are getting ready for all of the holiday festivities… a…

It is fall once again! Our favorite part of fall is always the great books coming in the next few months. We don’t necessarily love it getting dark earlier and…

Banned Books Week is officially Sept. 18 – 24, 2022. We will be celebrating the Freedom to Read all month long. Stop by to admire the new window display featuring…

August! Plenty of reading time left for Summer Book Bingo! There is a great list to help with Adult Summer Book Bingo in last month’s column, here. Both the adult…

July! Let summer begin. Plenty of reading time for Summer Book Bingo! This month, we are helping with some of the categories on the Adult Bingo card…. [stay tuned for…

Happy June.  The rain is warmer. And the sun is setting later – even if we don’t see it! We must be getting close to summer! For the very first…

Happy May! Spring has arrived. We know because the rain and hail are a bit warmer. Yikes! We are finishing the so-very-fun Independent Bookstore Passport Challenge – we had 10…

Poetry Month 2022: Following is a brief list of poets of note, award winners, and recent books of poetry — enjoy! Rena Priest is the Washington State Poet Laureate until…

50 years ago in movie theaters:  50 years ago on our radios [‘cuz that’s all we had!]: American Pie [Don McLean]; Nights in White Satin [The Moody Blues]; The First…

There has been evidence that spring will eventually arrive: The days are getting longer [sunset after 5:15 p.m.!]; and all of those daffodils bulbs are starting to sprout in Edmonds…

Welcome the New Year!! Such high hopes. 2022 has to be better… right?? Right…? In the December column we shared the bestsellers for the year through November at Edmonds Bookshop….

Ready or not, it is December! We have almost made it through another crazy year… this is where the fun part of crazy begins for us… We have books. We…