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Love the One You're With: This Year's Best Book-Alikes

by Sarah Reif, November 30, 2021 9:30 AM
Love the One Your With: The Best Book Substitutes


Fellow procrastinators, this one is for us! Supply chain woes and a season of wonderful books that everyone is excited about mean that there’s a small chance your favorite bookstore will run out of the specific title on your gift list; but fear not! Wonderful books come out every week (and they’ve been coming out for centuries, if you can believe it). To take the stress out of gifting this year, I went through some of the hottest titles of the season to suggest great alternates.

Maybe your first choice is out of stock, maybe you’re worried your bookish friend already has the hot title of the year, or maybe you just want to look really cool by picking an unexpected title. Whatever your reason, remember that you can always ask a bookseller...
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Powell's Picks Spotlight: Sally Rooney's 'Beautiful World, Where Are You'

by Sarah Reif, September 7, 2021 8:23 AM
Picks of the Month Spotlight: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

This week we're taking a closer look at Powell's Pick of the Month Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney.

I read Beautiful World, Where Are You in two sittings on my 29th birthday, chasing the shade around my backyard and contemplating the inevitability of climate crisis and societal collapse amidst record-breaking high temperatures here in the Pacific Northwest.

A lot. I know.

Alice and Eileen, the novel’s 29-year-old protagonists, are grappling with similar anxieties...
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Storytime Rhyme: 13 Perfect Collections for Poets of All Ages

by Sarah Reif, April 19, 2021 8:34 AM
13 Perfect Poetry Collections for Children of All Ages by Sarah Reif

A few months ago, I received a text from my dad out of the blue.

A request: “Hey, I need a good line from that dragon poetry book.”

A question: “Also, what was the name of that dragon poetry book?”

This was, as they say, my moment. Jack Prelutsky’s The Dragons Are Singing Tonight has lived in my head rent-free ever since it entered the storytime rotation for my brother and me sometime in the mid-90s. I’m honestly surprised my dad didn’t remember the title himself — it was certainly one of my young self’s top requests. I spent hours poring over Peter Sís’s detailed illustrations and can still recite many of those poems from memory 20-odd years later...

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