Edmonds Booktalk

April is National Poetry Month, and 2021 marks the 25th annual celebration of poets and poetry. Visit the poets.org site for ways to find and connect with poets and poems. You can sign up to get a poem-a-day in your inbox! There are poems for kids and teens; ways for kids to interact directly with…

It only takes six minutes of reading to lower your blood pressure. For your consideration, we present all kinds of short stuff: stories, novellas, essays and poems, some of which we recommended during our staff Zoom event last month. Which you may watch on our Facebook page any time, here! Alphabetical by author. Enjoy. “Dreadful…

Don’t you just love it when something you do anyway proves to be pretty good for you? Red wine? Dark chocolate? Reading before bed! With information gathered from the Mayo Clinic and Sussex University studies. Reading before bed is definitely one of the best habits you can have. It not only betters your sleep quality…

2020 was a year like no other, and honestly, we’re pretty glad to see it go. More than ever, we turned to books for entertainment, comfort and information during tough times. Reading kept us connected to our friends, families and communities, near and far, opened our eyes to new experiences, shed light on our shared…

Everything is still way harder than we wish it were. But it there is hope on the not too distant horizon, so let’s continue taking care of each other and staying safe out there. At Edmonds Bookshop we are doing our part to keep everyone healthy while still enjoying the holidays. We require shoppers to…

If some days it feels as if our own life is just too much, why not escape into someone else’s life?  For your consideration this month, I present a list of other people’s stories. Some will be better, some worse. Some interesting. Some inspiring. Some educational. Some make us grateful for what we have [or…

Presented for your consideration: books being published this fall with great advance reviews and some interesting buzz… We are so happy to have you back in the store! A quick refresher on Edmonds Bookshop operations: we remain open under Phase 2 guidance, with masks and use of hand sanitizer required for entry; we enforce a…

We are so happy to have you back in the store live and in person, and browsing with a purpose! A quick refresher on Edmonds Bookshop operations: We remain open under Phase 2 guidance, with masks and use of hand sanitizer required for entry; we enforce a limit of about six customers at a time,…

We are so happy to have you back in the store for in-person shopping and a bit of browsing. Our most important priority is the health of our customers and staff, and consequently we ask that all customers wear face masks, that you sanitize your hands upon entry and that you keep 6 feet of…

Good news! Edmonds Bookshop is open. We are excited to have you back in the store. For the time being we will be open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. [Check our Facebook page, and our website, follow us on Twitter and Instagram. We will keep you updated as we attempt to go with…

No one is quite sure what this summer is going to look like, but we do know you will absolutely need books and we can totally help with that! Edmonds Bookshop is still closed to in-person shopping, and we will be, for at least a little bit longer… Just announced:  Phase 2 has been approved…

We made it to May. So that’s good. Edmonds Bookshop is still closed and we will be for at least a while longer, but we are still able to get books to you! Order online on our website www.edmondsbookshop.com, quickly sign up for your free account, and we will have books delivered directly to your…

Not at all the April any of us had in mind. But here we are. Edmonds Bookshop is closed and will be for the foreseeable future, but we are still able to get books to you! Order online on our website, quickly sign up for your free account, and we can have books delivered directly…

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…