June 2015

  • Book Bingo: Young Adult Books

       – Posted by Meranda This summer The Seattle Public Library, in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures, is excited to offer a summer reading program for adults called Summer Book Bingo! In order to help you along on your quest to complete your bingo sheet, we have pulled together some book suggestions based on… Continue reading

  • Have You Seen These Yeti?

    ~posted by Amy Yeti has become the creature to feature in both picture books and children’s fiction. The trend started slowly in 2013 with the picture book The Boy who Cried, Bigfoot!, followed by Yeti, Turn Out the Light! and the chapter book The Abominables. 2014 brought several chapter book series featuring our large, hairy friends including: Alien Encounter… Continue reading

  • LGBTQ memoirs

    ~posted by Frank It’s Gay Pride month, and it’s time to take a look at some forthcoming and recently released memoirs celebrating the richness and diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender lives. For a good laugh, check out Bad Kid by David Crabb as he recounts growing up goth and gay in Texas in the… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: Set in the Northwest

       – Posted by Misha This summer The Seattle Public Library, in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures, is excited to offer a summer reading program for adults called Summer Book Bingo! In order to help you along on your quest to complete your bingo sheet, we have pulled together some book suggestions based on… Continue reading

  • Fantasy Checklist Challenge: Children’s Books

    ~posted by Selby G. All ages love the possibilities bound in the pages of a fantastical book and children are no different. Some of the most creative and entertaining fantasy books I have read were written for kids. So don’t let the age vector deter you. The books in this post may be geared towards… Continue reading

  • Fantasy Checklist Challenge!

    ~Posted by Selby G. Fantasy is a genre of fiction that usually conjures up images of wizards battling dragons or beautiful maidens riding unicorns. While these are common elements in many fantasy novels, they are by no means the only ones. Fantasy novels run the gamut from hints of magic popping up in urban settings… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: Graphic Novels

        – posted by Sven This summer The Seattle Public Library in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures is excited to offer a summer reading program for adults called Beach Blanket Book Bingo! In order to help you along on your quest to complete your bingo sheet, we’ve pulled together some reading suggestions based on each… Continue reading

  • A Taste of Seattle History: Maison Blanc Restaurant

    ~posted by Jade Starting in the 1970s, the library began amassing a menu collection featuring Seattle restaurants from Big Boy Burgers to The Wok Hut Restaurant & Deli. The Seattle Historic Menu Collection, as it came to be known, is now home to hundreds of menus, 400 of which have been digitized and made available… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: Books You Can Finish Reading in a Day!

     – Posted by Eric G. This summer The Seattle Public Library, in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures, is excited to offer a summer reading program for adults called Summer Book Bingo! In order to help you along on your quest to complete your bingo sheet, we have pulled together some book suggestions based on… Continue reading

  • James Joyce at the Library!

    ~posted by David W. There are some books that should be heard and not seen. Well, perhaps that’s a little extreme. Let me say instead that there are authors whom you haven’t really experienced until you have read them aloud, or had them read to you. Most poets fit that category, and certainly Shakespeare. And for both myself… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads: Seattle mystery novelist Ingrid Thoft shares some favorites

    Our guest blogger today is Ingrid Thoft, author of the Fina Ludlow mystery series (now in development as a series for ABC Studios) about a private investigator working with her three attorney brothers for her father’s maybe-shady Boston law firm. Brutality, the third in the series, comes out June 23. Start with Loyalty, move on to… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: #WeNeedDiverseBooks

    This summer The Seattle Public Library in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures is excited to offer a summer reading program for adults called Beach Blanket Book Bingo! In order to help you along on your quest to complete your bingo sheet, we’ve pulled together some reading suggestions based on each category. Stay tuned for… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: Summer Reading Program … for grownups!

    A summer reading program for adults? Yes, of course! Announcing … SUMMER BOOK BINGO! We’re partnering with our friends at Seattle Arts & Lectures to bring you the inaugural Summer Book Bingo, Seattle edition! Grab one of our Book Bingo cards, take on a few reading challenges (each square is a “challenge”) — and read… Continue reading

  • Take Me to Cuba

    By Richard C. Even with tourism to Cuba increasing and relations warming, my bank account says I’ll still be getting my taste of Cuban food, fiction, and history the vicarious way. My favorite lately is the instant documentary – Spanish or English anytime, right!? After that it’s fiction. Crime fiction. In Havana Blue, it’s a troubled past catching up to… Continue reading

  • The History Behind the Story, Part I

    ~posted by Emily You may not think of George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones (GoT) as historical fiction, but even if you take away the dragons and zombies, much of the drama of the novels and TV series is just as strange as the truth. Martin combines elements of fantasy and folklore with actual events from… Continue reading

  • Night of Disguise at SAM

    Join The Seattle Public Library’s social media team at The Seattle Art Museum for a ‘Night of Disguise‘ and have some incognito fun on Friday, June 19, from 7 to 11 p.m. Buy tickets here and use discount code twitterdisguise0619 to get $5 off. The Library has plenty of resources to help you prepare for the exhibition! Browse our African masks and art quick picks online,… Continue reading

  • Six Big Debuts for Summer and Fall

    ~posted by Frank Each year, tens of thousands of librarians and booksellers attend Book Expo America to mix with publishers and authors and attend panels about the state of the industry. One of the highlights is the Editors’ Buzz Panel, and this year they selected six highly anticipated debuts they’re most excited about: FICTION City on Fire by Garth… Continue reading

  • Science Fiction Checklist Challenge: New Wave Science Fiction

    By David H. At the beginning of the 1960’s, science fiction was in a rut. While grand masters, such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur Clarke, were still writing interesting and worthwhile work, the genre itself had become fossilized. The tropes of pulp science fiction (rockets ships, robots, aliens barely distinguishable from humans, and square-jawed, flawless… Continue reading