Applause Encouraged
Many years ago, I traveled around northern Japan with friends, exploring the hot springs resorts. At one isolated spot in the mountains, which we called...
My Kind of Office
There is a war museum on the island of Terceira in the Azores. It seems a little strange for such a peaceful-feeling island to have...
First Impressions
The graphic novel series Saga by Brian K. Vaughan doesn’t need me to promote it. But reading the first volume of the hardback collection I...
Third Place Books
After decades in Seattle, I realized I had never been to the suburban “city” of Lake Forest Park. All I knew about it was that...
My First Independent Bookstore Day
Bookstores might be my Tiffany’s. This look back at the haul from my very first Independent Bookstore Day reveals the severity of my tsundoku problem....