Who doesn’t love to receive good things in the mail? Don’t you just get all warm and tingly when, amidst the Costco flyers and PG&E bills, you find something you really want? Such is the joy of the Apple-a-Month Club, from Green Apple Books in San Francisco. My first goodie arrived last week, packaged in…Continue reading Apple-a-Month Club
Category: Found at Green Apple
Books I’ve come across by accident at my neighborhood bookstore, Green Apple on Clement Street in San Frnacisco.
An Election Year Message from Green Apple Books
The folks at Green Apple Books give you one more reason to shop indie in this hilarious “election year message.” Play it. Laugh. Share it. Then get thee to Green Apple, or whatever your local bookstore is, and shop with the people who know about books.
Hidden corners of the mind
There’s a great post by Molly over at the Green Apple Core about reading while not actually reading: Last night, though, while reading what is so far a very good book in such an environment, I suddenly sat up straighter with a startled feeling, like I’d just come around a corner in my own brain…Continue reading Hidden corners of the mind
Found at Green Apple
Under the tree on Christmas morning, a swell stash of books that my personal Santa picked up from Green Apple The Jokers, by Albert Cossery I know nothing about this book, which is precisely why I love Green Apple: Santa will always find something he didn’t know he was looking for. A House with No…Continue reading Found at Green Apple
3 Great Gifts for Booklovers
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion My Hollywood, by Mona Simpson: an incredibly nuanced take on the relationship between caregivers and the families who depend on them. Set in LA in the nineties, this book is a complex and thought-provoking counterpart to Kathryn Stockett’s The Help. The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes