Your Next Five Books: Free Personalized Reading Recommendations from the Seattle Public Library

Your Next Five Books: Free Personalized Reading Re...

(Note: This post originally ran on 9/4/12. But I just used this amazing free service again, and was once again so in love with it that I wanted to reshare with new readers. Get yourself some book recommendations!) The Seattle Public Library never ceases to amaze me. Our main library one of the coolest buildings ever in the history of the universe, I can get DVDs of HBO shows that aren’t available (legally) anywhere...
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Take a Book, Leave a Book: Stock Up Your Reading List

Take a Book, Leave a Book: Stock Up Your Reading L...

And now we return to another favorite Yay-Today topic: books! I know you already have a crazy long library queue ready to go thanks to the “Your Next Five” program at Seattle Public Library that we told you about a couple of weeks ago, but here’s a great way to find some new reading material while you wait for your next library book to become available: the new Take a Book, Leave a Book lending library on...
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Read with the stars: Silent Reading at the Sorrento Hotel is back!

Read with the stars: Silent Reading at the Sorrent...

File this under “only in Seattle”: the hottest place to go out tonight involves you, a book, an old-fashioned hotel lobby and a whole lot of quiet. Yes kids, Silent Reading Night at the Sorrento Hotel is back.  Every Wednesday night in the fall, from 6:00 – 9:00 pm, the Fireside Room transforms itself into, well, a library.  Except you have to bring your own book and they have booze.  You just show up,...
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Shhhh, I’m trying to drink my Syrah....

The short story: Once upon a time Seattlites gathered in a fancy hotel to read, drink and be quiet....
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