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...

Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest edited by Susan Denning, Daniela Elza, and Cody Walker

by Joseph Arellano | Jul 30, 2015 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Ooligan Press Formats: Paperback Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble[/alert] Nine editors selected 151 poems for inclusion in this anthology of poetry. The poets, represented by one...

Blue Thread by Ruth Tenzer Feldman

by L Ruby Hannigan | Mar 17, 2015 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Religious Fiction, Young Adult

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Ooligan Press Formats: Paperback Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble[/alert] Blue Thread is the story of Miriam, a high-spirited young Jewish daughter, growing up in Portland Oregon...

The Wax Bullet War: Chronicles of a Soldier & Artist (OpenBook) by Sean Davis

by Dick Weissman | Feb 27, 2015 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Portland Authors, Portland Publishers, War & Military

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Ooligan Press Formats: Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble[/alert] Inspired by 9/11 and stuck in a dead end job, Sean Davis re-enlisted in the National Guard, after...

Up Nights by Daniel Kine

by Annie Hicks | Feb 10, 2015 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, NW Publishers

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Ooligan Press Formats: Paperback Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble[/alert] After reading, Up Nights, by Daniel Kine, I was reminded of The Great Gatsby. Yes, there were no...