In which I review a book everyone else read five years ago. I have never been known for my ability to keep abreast of all things pop cultu...

Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead) is a complex beast of a novel. It is angry, rough and bloody but also nimbl...

Between the World and Me  by Ta-Nehisi Coates This book is everywhere, with good reason. Many of us here at Third Place Books have read ...

About a month ago another local author, DP Denman, reached out to me about a fundraiser that she was spearheading and as a young adult autho...

Summer travel means summer travel reading. And a trip to New Orleans means a feast of literary options. I've been reading novels, manife...

We may be booksellers by day, but that's not all we are. Some of us are writers, some of us knit. Several of us could be considered pret...

Volume 2, Issue 2 Various links to cool videos, websites, articles, and news about books. *** The  Man Booker long list , also known...

So we have this astronaut in the Commons. She's part of the Museum of Flight's Astronauts on the Town public art project. We've...

Lizzie at Lake Forest Park recently took a trip to Boston. While she was there, she headed out to Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ...

I love reading aloud, and not just children's illustrated books, novels too. It's unclear where this love came from, because reading...

Go Set a Watchman . It's the only thing anyone  is talking about. Except Stephen. Our newest bookseller at Lake Forest Park has imagin...

I'm always so behind the times, but did you watch Death Comes to Pemberly ? BBC made the P.D. James' novel of the same name into a ...

Wesley at Lake Forest Park Wesley has been with Third Place for a year, but he's been a bookseller for nearly 17 years. Lots of kno...

You MUST read this book.  Rude Cakes  by Rowboat Watkins. It's pretty much impossible to walk by this book and not pick it up. J...

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I've been giving some thought to why we read. What is it we're looking to find in those pages? The answer is different for each of u...

Volume 2, Issue 1 Bringing this back. Various links to cool videos, websites, articles, and blogs about books. Enjoy! *** You may reca...

A few months ago, Oliver Sacks announced that he has terminal cancer. He wrote a beautiful piece in the New York Times, and if you haven...