Some people love her, others detest her.  Some like her books and hate the movies, but one thing is certain: everyone has an opinion about the big-eyed, curly haired author/director/actress/extraordinaire. The New York Times Magazine recently published a piece about the Los Angeles based Miranda July.  Since we at The Readers Review love word association, [...]

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By Byron Spooner When Frank and I moved to Marin County and opened the book store in San Rafael we assumed we were opening in an affluent suburb pretty much like any other. And in many regards we were absolutely right. It was a suburb ten miles north of San Francisco with a large, thriving [...]

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For the people who like to argue that libraries are archaic,  this one’s for you.  

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How to Win Boys: A Book of Information and Inspiration for the Sunday School Worker (1938). Daily Treats are sweet finds from our Treat Avenue Donation Center. Hungry for more collectibles? Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! Find more rare reads at Amazon and AbeBooks.  

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By Byron Spooner Witherup was a certified, diagnosed mental case and Albert a full-time stoner, characteristics not widely regarded to be resume-toppers in the business world but just about dead-square on the mean in used-bookselling.  After all, no lives depended on their performance or ours. It wasn’t like we were dog sledding the vaccines to [...]

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Movie novelizations you missed the first time: Good Guys Wear Black (1978). Daily Treats are sweet finds from our Treat Avenue Donation Center. Hungry for more collectibles?  Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! Find more rare reads at Amazon and AbeBooks.

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By Mary Ellen Hannibal The windows of my home office look out onto our very small deck and periodically I am   confronted by a tiny, whirring piece of curiosity come close to check me out:  a  hummingbird.  These most miniature of birds operate on such a fast burn rate that their metabolism essentially flat-lines when [...]

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Adding Drum Circle Facilitator to your resume is sure to get the attention of prospective employers. Daily Treats are sweet finds from our Treat Avenue Donation Center. Hungry for more collectibles?  Follow us on Twitter and Facebook! Find more rare reads at Amazon and AbeBooks.

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By Katie Sue Ambellan It’s BAAACCKK!  And this time, the San Francisco Public Library ‘s Literary Speed Dating will focus on connecting baby boomers with new love. On Aug. 2, for same-sex dating, and Aug. 9, for straight dating, interested book worms can come to the main library’s Latino Hispanic Community Meeting Room.  The event [...]

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By Mary Ellen Hannibal Recently I sat in on a book group where The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Freidan, was under discussion. The participants were members of the Smith Club of the Peninsula; Smith is Freidan’s alma mater, and her classmates from the class of 1942 were the anonymous respondents to the questionnaire that forms [...]

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