The Ocean in My Ears by Meagan Macvie

by Barbara Cothern | Feb 2, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, NW Author, Portland Publishers, Young Adult

Seventeen-year-old Meri Miller is way past ready to leave her tiny town of Soldotna, Alaska. She’s not sure what she wants to do but she knows she wants to do it elsewhere. All Meri wants to do is spend her senior year applying to colleges, hanging out with her best...

Willamette Valley Wineries (Images of Modern America) by Barbara Smith Randall

by Seniye Groff | Nov 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks, NW Author, NW Setting, Travel

Any wine enthusiast, especially one interested in the Willamette Valley, will pour over Willamette Valley Wineries by Barbara Smith Randall. Painstaking research clearly went into this book. Each page is littered with photos coupled with stories, and facts that...

Talking Sense About Politics: How to Overcome Political Polarization in Your Next Conversation

by Whitney Smyth | Nov 2, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, NW Author, Self-Help, Sponsored

Nowadays, the very idea of politics is enough to start a social media flame war or send close friends at one another’s throats. Why have Americans largely lost the ability to have civil debates and discussions with regards to political concerns? Jack Meacham’s Talking...

Timberline Lodge (Images of America) by Sarah Baker Munro

by Seniye Groff | Jan 19, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, History, NW Author, NW Setting, Travel

History lovers, as well as architecture aficionados, will appreciate the research and stories presented in Timberline Lodge (Images of America). William Turner, the architect, was hired to design Timberline and he had integral influence in the building’s final...

Licking Flames: Tales of a Half-Assed Hussy by Diana Kirk

by Megan McIntyre | Jan 5, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Humor, NW Author

First off – If you are remotely offended by slightly crass or off-color words or topics that used to only be found late at night on Showtime or nowhere, don’t read this book. I was a willing yet initially unknowing participant. Her collection of essays is...

Sorry About That: The Language of Public Apology by Edwin L. Battistella

by Howard Leighton | Nov 9, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), NW Author, Reference

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] What a perfect book to have read during the close of the 2016...