Story Time with Toni Yuly: The Whole Wide World and Me

Saturday, April 6, 2019 – 11:00am

 

Join us for a special story time at Browsers with author-illustrator Toni Yuly at 11:00 AM on Saturday, April 6.

A bold, joyful picture book for the very young shows that the natural world is full of wonders — and each of us is a small part of that.

Like a flower in a field . . .
Like a cloud in the sky . . .
So am I.

Just as a pebble is part of a mountain, just as a wave is part of the sea, so, too, is every one of us part of something bigger. With bright collage illustrations and a simple, lyrical text, acclaimed author-illustrator Toni Yuly invites readers to celebrate our relationship to the natural world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Toni Yuly is the creator of the picture books Thank You, Bees; The Jelly Bean Tree; Cat Nap; Night Owl; and Early Bird. After many years as a librarian, she now dedicates herself to designing, painting, and writing all day. She lives in Bremerton, Washington.

Her Body and Other Parties

Kathryn’s Staff Pick:

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

I can’t recommend this book enough! An instant classic in psychological realism, cognitive dysphoria, and queer feminist fiction. A must-read for fans of Shirley Jackson and Angela Carter. Machado is a genre blender and master storyteller, weaving the surreal, fantastical, and the horrific. Incredibly relevant. Gives voice to women’s rage, pain, and oppression. Effortlessly shifts from humor to horror. “The Husband Stitch,” “The Resident,” and “Inventory” are my favorites.

The Answers

Elise’s Staff Pick:

The Answers: A Novel By Catherine Lacey

Researchers and a really rich guy think they have devised a way to eliminate emotional pain, specifically the pain of loving another. Mary is an abject protagonist. She is searching for an escape from illness and the mundanity of her days. The particular way in which she finds herself smack dab in the middle of these strange experiments makes this book a genuine page turner … good luck putting it down!

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Browsers Cookbook Club

Thursday, November 8, 2018 – 7:00pm

Join us for the Fall gathering of the Cookbook Club on Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 7:00PM. Sometimes-food-writer Kelli Samson and Browsers Bookshop owner Andrea Griffith will host an evening of good food and conversation. This is a potluck-style event with every attendee choosing a recipe from the cookbook to share with the group.

The event is limited to 16 participants, and the pre-order (publication date is 10/9) or purchase (after 10/9) of the cookbook at Browsers confirms your place on the list. After the event is full, we will form a waitlist. If you have questions, please email Andrea.

This season we will be cooking out of Seattle food writer Ashley Rodriquez’s new cookbook, Let’s Stay In: More Than 120 Recipes to Nourish the People You Love. Copies will be at Browsers on the publication date (10/9) but are available to pre-order at Browsers now.

How to: Read

There are many methods for reading. You can skim. You can pretend you’ve read the book. You can read fast, or you can read slow. You can re-read. You can be read to, or you can read to another. Here’s a smattering of articles all about how we read.

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This article describes good reading practices, especially in the digital age. It describes the difference between reading a lot and being well read.

A somewhat overly obtuse article from Lit Hub describes On the Ways we Read.

This article explores what happens to your brain when you read.

Here’s an article on How to Teach Yourself to Read an Entire Book in a Single Day. It’s definitely possible! And this article explains why Your Brain Needs to Read Every Single Day.

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But it’s also okay to not have read all the books you own. This article from Medium explains that even just having a whole lot of books around puts you in good company with many intellectuals of the ages, which is very heartening to someone with an ever expanding collection (like me!). No matter how you read, we hope you’re reading something good.

March Notes: A Construction Update

Empty Back Room

No ceiling/floor

As soon as the stairs were torn out it was apparent that the floor upstairs was basically held up by a couple boards and a prayer. Last weekend we moved everything out of the back room – every book and bookshelf as well as everything I had hastily stored on the floor upstairs (brought down by ladder as there are no stairs). Movers came on Monday and hauled everything to a storage unit. The floor and ceiling came down the same day, and today the footings are being poured below the floor for the pillars. What a week. We will definitely be having a party when this is all over.

We were able to cancel or move most of the events scheduled at the store this month but there are still a few things going on. Our book club and poetry club will meet again this month in the front half of the store. The three events listed at the beginning of the newsletter will actually be in the next door space recently vacated by Thomas Architect Studios. The space is currently being renovated as an expansion for Fosbre Academy & Hair Salon and they are so very kindly letting us use it for our events.

In other less-fraught news, I have read some really wonderful books lately. Educated by Tara Westover, a memoir of growing up in a survivalist/fundamentalist Mormon family, deserves every bit of attention it has received. It’s a harrowing yet hopeful account. I finally read Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan – if you are in the mood to fall into a well-written historical novel, this is your book. I also really loved Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Father Gregory Boyle. Next up I am planning to read the first two novels in the Karl Ove Knausgaard seasonal quartet, Autumn and Winter, as well as the March book for our store book club, The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore.

We are still open our usual hours and would love to see you. Whew, what a wordy update!

As always, I hope you are reading something good,
Andrea