Category: Books

Transparent City

Despite my personal history of book club and book challenge failures, I am slowly plugging away at the Reading Around the World challenge. I started...

My 2020 Year in Books

March is a little late to be summarizing the previous year’s reading. But I was busy in January and forgot in February, so here we...

Historical Haul

In July of 2016 I went on a pilgrimage to Powell’s Books in Portland with my mom and my two kids. We spent two full...

Open Books

For years, I drove past Open Books, Seattle’s only poem emporium. I read some poetry, but I didn’t think I read enough poetry to bother...

Andorra Revealed

Despite a history of book club and book challenge failures, I started Reading Around the World early in 2020. It turned out to be a...