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Summer Book Bingo 2016 Is Here

Good news for book lovers: Summer Book Bingo is back! This summer reading program for adults (ages 15 and up) gives you the chance to win some great prizes from the Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts & Lectures. Download your book bingo card and start playing today! How Can I Play Summer Book Bingo 2016? Step 1: Read lots of books! Then fill in bingo squares with book titles as you finish them. Go for a bingo and you could win a $30 gift card to an independent bookstore. Get the full blackout and you could win a library of books by 2016–17 [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:57-07:00June 9th, 2016|Tags: |

Seattle’s Edible Book Festival Will Make You Hungry

I’ve been wanting to visit the Seattle Edible Book Festival for a while now — any event that combines books and food sounds ideal to me. Kids and adults create “books” out of edible materials and enter to win prizes, while attendees vote on their favorites and get to eat the entries after the judging. Last weekend, I finally got a chance to see it at Third Place Books! The unique literary festival is put on by the Shoreline – Lake Forest Park Arts Council, a community-based arts organization. But this free, all-ages event is strictly for fun (although donations [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:00-07:00April 7th, 2016|

3 Reasons Why Tudor Life Might Be Better than You Think

What does a 21st-century person need to know about how to be a Tudor? When people think about life in Tudor-era England (basically the 16th century), they often imagine the extremes — either the glittering wealth and lavish courts of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, or a miserable medieval peasant’s grim existence. But, as historian Ruth Goodman explains in her new book How To Be a Tudor, there were many people in between. Farmers owned land and raised animals, skilled tradesmen made beautiful and high-quality handmade goods, and the monasteries offered employment, community, and social welfare. And Goodman [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:01-07:00March 17th, 2016|Tags: , , |
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