Current Newsletter: Language at its most distilled and powerful.

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Caleb Masters, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Jordan April, Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Adam Fall, Underbrush Books in Rogers, Arkansas
• Leslie Logemann, Highland Books in Brevard, North Carolina
• Mandy Martin, Novel in Memphis, Tennessee
• Ginger Kautz, Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Percy Castillo, Blue Cypress Books in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Susan Williams, M Judson Booksellers in Greenville, South Carolina
• Johanna Hynes, Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky
• Lindsay Lynch, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee
• Suzanne Lucey, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina
• Lana Repic, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia
• Krista Roach, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia

Book Buzz Feature: Tilt by Emma Pattee
 live in Portland — so very close to Seattle — and like you said, everyone in the Pacific Northwest lives under the shadow of something coming that you can never really prepare for. And as a climate journalist, I was really interested in that. I was interested in the ways that we can’t get prepared. And at the time that I started writing this book, I was also pregnant. Pregnancy and having a kid is another thing that everyone tells you to get prepared for, because of how scary and unknowable it is, but the reality is that it’s completely unknowable. You cannot imagine it until you have lived through it. I think that, thematically, is what brought me to the book. What gave me the idea for the book was definitely that I was terrified of the earthquake. I was pregnant, and I could not stop thinking about the earthquake.

― Emma Pattee, Interview, Bookweb

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
I read this book years ago and still think about it all the time. For years, no one in the medical community cared where HeLa cells came from. I find it fascinating that one person (Skloot) being curious enough and determined enough can lead to such a powerful story being uncovered. Henrietta Lacks’s story matters.
―Krista Roach, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia

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