Pages – What’s New in Local Reads
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By Kathie Meyer
Maybe you’re laid up with a bad case of Covid. Maybe the kids want you to read to them. Or maybe you need something to read in the bathtub with a glass of wine. Here are some of the latest offerings at our local bookstores by (mostly) local authors.
The Day We Got Lost
Written and Illustrated by Faith Pray
The latest from the über-talented Watson family is a story of independence versus family framed around a hike up Sunshine Peak. Pray has crafted a story to teach young children not to “run off” and portrays a family that feels more authentic than a Beaver Cleaver situation. For ages 3-6.
Polite Calamities
Jennifer Gold
The last lines of the prologue are so intriguing one can’t help but curl up and see what happens next, which is what a good book is all about, right? Jennifer Gold, the pseudonym for Nicole Persun, an award-winning author who grew up and still lives in Port Townsend, has written a book where the main character decides to be herself, come what may, after a life-altering event. Considered “book club fiction,” the story addresses chronic pain and infertility and how that affects the characters involved. If you like books by Taylor Jenkins Reid as much as I do, you will certainly enjoy Jennifer Gold.
The Bones at Point No Point (Thomas Austin crime thriller series)
By DD Black
The Bones at Point No Point is the first book in the Thomas Austin crime thriller series by Hansville author D.D. Black, a pseudonym for Adam Fuller, a former New York University journalism professor. All of Black’s books are set in familiar locales, even Port Townsend if you keep reading through book number eight, The Silence at Mystery Bay. I’m on the third book, The Fallen of Foul Weather Bluff, after a recommendation by a friend who has read them all. These books may be a bit predictable, however, they are engaging enough to keep going and fun to picture all of the significant places around Puget Sound as one reads.
Blind Descent – The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth
James M. Tabor
This author is not local, and neither are the locales – Mexico and Ukraine. This book is a remainder offered at William James Booksellers I picked up because I’m a serious armchair adventurer and had no idea what it takes to go deep into a cave. Now that I know, I’m sure cavers have something going on inside themselves that I will never understand, and that’s okay. The story Tabor tells of two very different men and their determination and force to go into pitch-black voids, big and small, where the slightest mistake can be fatal is riveting.
