Ep. 214: Shelf Awareness w/ Sweetpea Flaherty
EQ: What should we be reading this fall?
Guest: Sweeatpea Flaherty of King’s Books and Tacoma celebrity status has returned to grade us with their expertise and book recommendations for the fall! Sweetpea has been a bookseller since 2000, lived in Tacoma since 2003, and took over King's Books in 2010. They host events weekly and have 13 book clubs (now 15). kingsbookstore.com
Sweetpea joined us for Ep 184: Hot & Steamy Summer Reads and Ep 186: Pumpkin Spice & Bookish Advice; Ep 196: New Year, Fresh Reads
Other questions:
Worst book you've read this year so far?
Book with the most promise but failed to deliver?
Most underrated book you've read this year?
Book that pleasantly surprised by– better than expected or otherwise–Nico Case memoir The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You” and John Wistwell “Someone You can Build a Nest In”
Non Fiction:
Against the Machine : On the Unmaking of Humanity, Paul Kingsnorth
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave : My Cemetery Journeys, Mariana Enriquez
Once and Future Riot, Joe Sacco
We Survived the Night, Julian Brave NoiseCat
Black-Owned : The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, Char Adams
Food/Drinks:
Good Things : Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love, Samin Nosrat
Korean Vegan: Homemade : Recipes and Stories from My Kitchen, Joanne Lee Molinaro
To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes, Rosie Grant
Poetry:
New Book : Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things, Nikki Giovanni
Startlement : New and Selected Poems, Ada Limón
You Must Live : New Poetry from Palestine (Bilingual edition), Sherah Bloor
Memoir/Biography
Positive Obsession : The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris
Baldwin: A Love Story, Nicholas Boggs
Girl Warrior : On Coming of Age, Joy Harjo
Fiction:
Black Flame, Gretchen Felker-Martin
Katabasis, R. F. Kuang
Moonflow, Bitter Karella
Veal, Mackenzie Nolan
Son of the Morning, Akwaeke Emezi
Great Books:
Back to Font : Behind the Typefaces You Thought You Knew, Anitra Nottingham
E Is for Edward : A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey, Edward Gorey
Water of the Sky : A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words, Miya Ando
Do Your Fudging Homework:
Hope: American War & What Strange Paradise, Egyptian-Canadian Omar El Akkad autobiography One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” )
Annie: Andrea Gibson, rest in power. Find new and interesting ways to support authors - Alice Oseman on Patreon. Seattle’s first all-romance bookstore, Lovestruck. FMC in Missoula. Niche bookstores and public libraries in new cities!
Sweetpea: Pre-order books signal to publisher