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Trashy Reading: Books About Garbage and Recycling

  Reducing Garbage, Recycling the Good Stuff It’s summertime and my shelf is full of trashy books — the kind that make you feel really guilty. Get your mind in the gutter: I mean literally trashy, like reading about garbage. After recently staging my semi-annual home purge and coming up with a big pile of boxes and bags to donate, I got interested in where all our unwanted stuff goes. Here in Seattle, composting is mandatory, and that’s made an embarrassingly huge difference in how many trash bags go out to the bin, but what about factors like “passive waste,” [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:04-07:00July 18th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Loved This, Try That: Ruby Red

So, let us guess: you devoured Kerstin Gier’s bestselling time-travel YA novel, Ruby Red, and now you need something to tide you over until the sequel, Sapphire Blue, comes out on October 30? Not to worry! Here’s a summer’s worth of delightful, dark, and fantastical books like Ruby Red with plenty of magic, strong female protagonists, and the occasional talking animal. Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor — Karou is a 17-year-old art student in Prague. An outsider even among the art-school crowd, her few friends have learned to accept her eccentricities: her fluency in random languages, her evasiveness, her [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:17-07:00June 5th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , , |

Book Trailers: A Reader’s Friend – or Just Another Annoying Ad?

[wptabs] [wptabtitle]Overview[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] IN A WORLD… where publishers vie for consumer dollars, books now have flashy, effects-heavy animated or filmed preview “trailers,” just like movies. But are they a truly helpful service for time-crunched readers, or just a gimmicky way to bombard weary audiences with more advertising? What they are: Book trailers can be slideshows of photos or images, an animated video, or a full-on filmed trailer with live actors. Often, there’s accompanying music or a narrator who introduces the story — and, of course, mentions the publisher, release date, and where you can buy the book. They are created [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:19-07:00May 31st, 2012|Tags: , , , |
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