Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other My heart has ached to return to Scotland for two years and I've been looking for every method of revisiting it that I possibly can. When I saw a customer requested this book at the bookstore, I knew I had to have it. Synopsis From the… Continue reading Clanlands by Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland It's another Nonfiction Book Club selection! This one was put forth for voting by Mary Anne and we were all pretty excited to read it. We tend not to stray towards current or former bestsellers, but this was a topic everyone wanted to know more… Continue reading Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Confessions of a Hockey Parent I love a good hockey book and I don't think there are enough of them out there, particularly when compared to all the other major league sports here in the states (yes, there are a TON of Canada specific hockey books). I was also excited to see a book that… Continue reading Pee Wees by Rich Cohen
The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas I love all things pertaining to pirates, particularly women pirates. It's long been a fascination for me, piracy seemingly the only women many women could truly be "free" throughout history. I've had this book since it first came out in 2016 and tried time and… Continue reading Pirate Women by Laura Sook Duncombe
Well, I barely made it, but I read my 52 books for the year (not including the hundreds I "blurb" read, but these are the ones I really read.) This year that included a couple of surprises and also reaffirmed that I need to vary my reading particularly when it comes from reading books by… Continue reading 2020 Year in Books
A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence In my continuing efforts to read a book in every section of the store, I realized that the book I called true crime had a week argument at best. When I came across We Keep the Dead Close as an advance copy, I figured it… Continue reading We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World I have never been interested in reading about things that currently are a realistic threat to me (i.e. pandemics, cancer and global warming). However, as I do not have sole determination of the books we read for book club and pretty much everyone else… Continue reading The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
Today is Small Business Saturday and the bookstore is hopping. Unfortunately, I am not at the store for the first SBS in 6 years, but I'm there in spirit! As a follow up to last week's Nonfiction November intro, our employee's Covid-19 test was negative (thank goodness!) and so things are mostly back to "normal."… Continue reading Week 4: The TBR Pile Overflows
This year I have many, many children under the age of 4 to buy books for: Seb, Maeve, Gabriel, Eliana, Madison, Lincoln, the list goes on and on! As such, I've been starting to work on curating a picture book list that includes titles that are gorgeously illustrated, fun and easy to read aloud, and… Continue reading Best of the Best Picture Books
To say that it's been a stressful week would be an understatement - we have had our first incidence of a staff member at the bookstore needing a Covid-19 test, a test we still don't know the results of. I'm a few days late here, but hopefully no one will hold my tardiness against me!… Continue reading Week 3: Expert Opinion
