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Set This House In Order / Matt Ruff
22 July 2008 – 10:27 am
Set This House In Order is an awesome book! I’m not really sure how I acquired it though. After I picked up Ruff’s Bad Monkeys I realized I had this earlier book by him on my shelves. I think I avoided reading it because the cover just screams pretentious literary fiction to me. But it’s not! It’s charmingly sweet and engaging.
I have a fascination with mentally ill people. I want to know what it’s like to lose your mind. (…)
The Good Rain / Timothy Egan
19 January 2008 – 9:26 pm
Timothy Egan won the 2006 National Book Award for Non-Fiction last year for his book The Worst Hard Time. I was working at Barnes and Noble at the time, and it was good news to us because Egan is a local. We figured there would be even more interest. One of our customers wanted The Good Rain also by Timothy Egan to give as a gift. He thought it was better and more appropriate than the previously mentioned The Worst Hard Time. (…)
Best of the Best from Washington Cookbook
25 December 2007 – 3:49 am
I’ve been somewhat unsure on how to review cookbooks. But I think I’ve figured out how I plan to do this, officially starting with this entry. I’ve modified the entry on the one other cookbook on the site to sort of fit the new scheme. We’ll see how it goes. The basic idea will be I will post a review after I’ve tried three recipes from the cookbook, with commentary. Later on, as I try more recipes, I’ll add additional commentary to the entry. (…)
Walla Walla Suite / Anne Argula
8 July 2007 – 8:22 pm
Anne Argula’s Walla Walla Suite doesn’t come out until September, so for now the best most folks will be able to do is pre-order this mystery. Cities like Boston, New York, and Los Angeles get far more mysteries set in their environs. But Seattle seems to be up and coming: G. M. Ford, J. A. Jance, Curt Colbert, and now Anne Argula. And Anne Argula is definitely a better writer than our most famous writer of Seattle-based mysteries, J. A. Jance. (…)
How To Start A Business In Washington
9 November 2006 – 12:33 pm
Hello again! I’m working on finishing three different books and it’s been taking a while to slog through them. Anyway, I have an idea for a business and I wanted to write a business plan for it before seeking funding, so I picked up some books on the topic. Three were specifically about writing business plans (I’ll review those soon), and this one from Entrepreneur Press is a general book about starting on in Washington State. (…)
Long Time Gone / J. A. Jance
24 September 2006 – 11:26 pm
First, before I say anything about the book itself, I want to spend a paragraph commenting on the Premium Plus book size that a few of the book publishers are beginning to use. HarperCollins and its imprint Avon Books are testing it, starting with Long Time Gone. I have two conflicting desires here. I like reading this format a bit better than the regular mass market paperback size. Not because the type is easier to read, though the book claims that. (…)
Legends, Liars, and Lawbreakers / Valerie Green
12 January 2006 – 10:56 pm
Nice quick reading, Legends, Liars, and Lawbreakers is short histories of eight of Washington State’s early criminals and one crime-fighting priest. Most of them turn out to be pretty mundane, such as James William Byrd. He murdered three men over unpaid wages. But the story really covers Esther Bowers, a local violinist who played for convicts at the Walla Walla pen. So Byrd made her two nice boxes. End of the story. (…)
Trial by Fury / J. A. Jance
14 October 2005 – 12:38 am
Bubblegum mystery. Trial by Fury, is the third in the J. P. Beaumont mystery series based in Seattle. Like a lot of mystery stories, this one depends on some huge coincidences. I dislike that. But overall, it’s cheap easy fun reading. Neither great nor awful.
The general plot this time is that Beaumont and his partner Peters are put on the case of a black man whose body is discovered in a trash bin near Seattle Center after the state basketball championships. (…)
Injustice for All / J. A. Jance
5 September 2005 – 6:14 pm
Injustice for All is the second book in J. A. Jance’s J. P. Beaumont mystery series. It’s a few months after Until Proven Guilty and Beaumont is taking a vacation in the San Juan Islands. Anne Corley is still on his mind. The book opens when Beaumont hears a scream. He rushes to the beach to find a woman pulling a man’s lifeless body from the water. The woman is Ginger Watkins, a member of the state parole commission. (…)
Until Proven Guilty / J. A. Jance
5 September 2005 – 2:35 pm
Seems like every city in the U.S. has it’s own mystery/cop series. J. A. Jance got the be the writer for Seattle’s series, starring J. P. Beaumont, an alcoholic homicide cop who comes into a bit of money. Until Proven Guilty, the first book in her series tells the story of how Beaumont comes into the money. Beaumont gets a case investigating the murder of a child. Beaumont fingers the wrong suspect, and a vigilante kills him. (…)
