On the outside, I project a sunny, smiley, agreeable persona, but this is all a ruse, a way of staying safe in a world I find inherently dangerous. Inside, I’m a shadowy, gloomy, witchy swamp of a person. While the term “beach read” usually conjures up cheerful, light-hearted fare, you’ll
In this article, we are lucky to have Sharma Shields, Writing Education Specialist for Spokane Public Library, sharing her favorite fall reads from Northwest authors to cozy up to this season. One of my autumnal musts is cozying up on a crisp late-October day with a steaming cup of Evening
Heat Up with Some Warm (and Sometimes Red-Hot) Romance Novels When I was given the assignment to highlight a few of the year’s best romance novels, I knew I’d need to rely on my reader’s advisory skills. At present, my bedside table is filled with gloomier books, where, if romance
One of my favorite fall activities is listening to an audiobook while walking my dog Dale in one of our engoldening Inland Northwest parks or forests. Audiobooks are a recent obsession of mine, spurred by dog-ownership and by the pandemic, the latter of which utterly changed my reading habits. I’m