Bookseller Gone Wild

I am on vacation this week– clear across the country in Portland OR.
When one is away from home, there is always the temptation to stray.  You’re away from home and loved ones: you see something pretty and… bang!  it’s out of sight, out of mind… Before you know it, it’s too late.
I admit it: every [...]

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At Last

   I promised that I would do this.    It makes me nervous like I have to do a bookreport.   I have shook the sillies out and relaxed, so here I go with my second blog of all time.
   I thought about doing this on several other books, but decided to talk about the book that [...]

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Speak… Listen

Sometimes people recommend a book by saying that it changed their life.  I’m always immediately sceptical.  Books as a whole change my life every day, but to point out one individual book?  That’s a very small list, and with one exception (maybe 3, now that I’m going back and editing this), all of them are books from [...]

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I want to buy a history of Martha’s Vineyard. What should I get?

One of our most frequently asked questions in the store is, “What’s a good history of Martha’s Vineyard?”  The answer, as with all books, is it depends who you are.
There are a lot of very specific books dealing with certain portions of Island history (which we will talk about on another day), but if you [...]

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An Ode to Melanie Watt

Time to put into words my undying love for Melanie Watt.
If you haven’t read the Scaredy Squirrel books, you must.  Today.  Even if you don’t have kids.
Scaredy Squirrel is the world’s cutest neurotic.  He sits in his nut tree imagining all worst possible scenerios, concocts elaborate plans to avoid horrible outcomes, and in the end, [...]

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Happy Valentine’s!

Vroman’s decided to do a Valentine video and asked the world at large to participate, so here’s our part…
 

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Braaaains…

Last week, Dailis turned to me and said, “You’ve got to see this.”  He pointed to his computer screen which showed a blog pointing him to the Chronicle site for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.  In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s Austen’s original, but Seth Grahame-Smith has added zombie fight scenes.
Naturally, we spent the afternoon [...]

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Icelander

OK, so I thought Karen would write something, and trust me, I’ll get her yet.  I think she still sees blogging as writing book reports instead of something fun.  But I can outlast her…  Being the youngest of 4 kids gives me certain skills, and “stubborn nag” may have been used to describe me in the past.
Personally, [...]

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