What I’m reading

  • Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young

    My mom’s a retired librarian, so the first thing she did when she found out I was moving across the country was recommend a novel she’d just read that takes place in the Pacific Northwest. Spells for Forgetting takes place on the fictional Saoirse Island in the very real Puget Sound. Characters travel by ferry…

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  • Filmlandia! by David Schmader

    I had this book on my wishlist months before it was published. As someone who recently moved from Ohio to the PNW, most of what I knew about Portland and Seattle was what I’d learned from Grimm and iZombie. And while Grimm legitimately features hundreds of Portland locations, iZombie was actually filmed in Vancouver, BC.…

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  • Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell

    In December 2022, my family packed up our entire lives and drove 2500 miles across the country to our new home in the Pacific Northwest. One thing I knew preparing for the trip: we were going to be spending several hours each day crammed into our van. We needed something to listen to. I downloaded…

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