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We're currently at $1,100! Woo-hoo!

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HELP FUND THE COUTH BUZZARD’S MULTIMEDIA EXPANSION! Donate here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/couth-buzzard-books-multimedia-expansion

Couth Buzzard Books Building Community. One Book… One Cup at a time.

Who We Are

Couth Buzzard books is a bookstore & communty space in Seattle, Washington. For over 25 years, we’ve been serving North Seattle and the surrounding communities. Since moving to our current location five years ago we’ve expanded to include a cafe, and performance space where local musicians, poets, writers, comedians, dancers, artists, & other performers come to share their talents and passions. With your support, we plan on purchasing a selection of high quality microphones, an audio interface, and video equipment so that we can share our regular events with the rest of the world.

What We Need

Our goal is $2,500 towards audio/video gear, including: - A selection of quality microphones and cables - Audio interface & recorder - Video Camera

Expanding Our Community into the Digital Realm

With your help we can produce: -Regular online videos for those who can’t be here in person -A future series of “Live at the Couth” albums -Streaming video for the masses

Please share and thank you for your support!!

#couth buzzard #books #bookstore #seattle bookstore #seattle author #indiegogo #f

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Since migrating to the US from Mexico in 1994, Yuyi Morales has created some of our most celebrated children’s books. She is a multiple winner of the Pura Belpré Medal, an honor bestowed by the American Library Association for Authors and Illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and...

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The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Nick Hornby, How to Be Good (via wordsnquotes)

#nick Hornby #quotes

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We’ve got a whopping 50 pages previewing our second volume of Treasury of Mini Comics, including the full table of contents, a four page introduction by editor Michael Dowers, and seven complete minicomics. Check ‘em out in our 3.6 MB downloadable excerpt here, then get your pre-order in for the book’s December debut!

#fantagraphics #comics

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SEATTLE, see you all at Short Run Comics & Arts Festival this Saturday (11/15) @ Washington Hall from 11AM to 6PM! You can find me at table G34. 

As a part of Short Run’s festival programming, I will also be doing a reading and signing of YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE at Elliott Bay Book Company the following day (11/16) at 3:30PM. (FB event page) 

See you all soon! 

P.S. A big thank you to Short Run organizers for including YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE as a part of their recommendations for 6 small press titles to look out for at the comic festival, which you can read here on Bitch Magazine! 

#Seattle #comics #your illustrated guide to becoming one with the universe #elliott bay books

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OUTsider chronicles the journey of Ruth Marimo, who traveled from Africa to the United States, from abused wife to an out lesbian activist, from a life of fear to one filled with joy. Her trek from the shadows of uncertainty and shame into the bright light of self-acceptance and fulfillment is a story that is richly rewarding and uniquely compelling.

 “OUTsider is a moving coming out tale, a deeply feminist memoir, and a bewildering look at the ridiculousness of immigration policy in the US. A must-read for women, and the people who love them.”

- Diane Anderson-Minshall, Editor at Large, Advocate Magazine 

Get your copy here!

#LGBTQ authors #woc authors #books #memoir

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Ok, guys, this is a kickstarter for a scifi book with a black girl protagonist called Cosmic Callisto Caprica: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176716923/cosmic-callisto-caprica

The author’s just asking for a total of 3,000, so please check the project! :D

#kickstarter #woc authors #science fiction #books #fundraising

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[image: Shows the Couth Buzzard Books logo over a photo of the bookstore window.] HELP FUND THE COUTH BUZZARD'S MULTIMEDIA EXPANSION! Donate here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/couth-buzzard-books-multimedia-expansion Couth Buzzard Books Building Community. One Book... One Cup at a time. Who We Are Couth Buzzard books is a bookstore & communty space in Seattle, Washington. For over 25 years, we've been serving North Seattle and the surrounding communities. Since moving to our current location five years ago we've expanded to include a cafe, and performance space where local musicians, poets, writers, comedians, dancers, artists, & other performers come to share their talents and passions. With your support, we plan on purchasing a selection of high quality microphones, an audio interface, and video equipment so that we can share our regular events with the rest of the world. What We Need Our goal is $2,500 towards audio/video gear, including: - A selection of quality microphones and cables - Audio interface & recorder - Video Camera Expanding Our Community into the Digital Realm With your help we can produce: -Regular online videos for those who can't be here in person -A future series of "Live at the Couth" albums -Streaming video for the masses Please share and thank you for your support!!

#couth buzzard #books #bookstore #fundraising #seattle books #small business #local bookstore #greenwood #seattle #indiegogo #reading #poetry #music #dance #art #comedy #pnw folklore society #comedy womb #pint and dale #open mic

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About Us/WELCOME!

Hello, potential new followers, and welcome to THE (206) BIBLIOPHILE. Let me tell you a little bit about myself and this blog. Hello! I'm Sara. I grew up a voracious reader in West Hollywood, CA, and moved to Olympia, WA for school. After two years at The Evergreen State College, I moved to Seattle where I spent several years making coffee and wading hopelessly, as one does, through depression and the first couple years of my twenties. A welcome change came in the form of a friend who was a longtime employee of Couth Buzzard Books and Espresso Buono, a bookstore, cafe and performance space in the Greenwood area. She often spoke highly of the store as a place where poets, artists, actors. musicians, comedians and other eccentric characters gathered for coffee and commiseration. There was a vacancy for a barista, and I was stunned to get the job -- largely because I had all but stopped reading over the last few years. Other habits had taken precedent, my concentration was shot, and TV was just easier... I've been with the Buzzard for about a year now, and now I type to you from my bed where I am surrounded by good books that I can't put down. I thank my workplace for that, and for introducing me to musicians who are now my bandmates and scores of other folks I am proud to call my friends. What I'd like to do with this blog is share quotes and images from books I enjoy, events of interest for Seattle readers, and perhaps my own writings every now and then. I'd love for followers to submit poems or perhaps reviews or recommendations of favorite books. I also aim to showcase the great things that happen at the Couth Buzzard -- though this blog is not officially affiliated with the store, I aim to be its biggest promoter, and I hope you will come check it out. Right now we are running a campaign to raise money for new audio and video equipment so we can share what we do with the world. I will be posting about that soon and I ask you to please share even if you are unable to donate. Another important thing: I commit to making this blog safe and welcoming for all people. I will go back and add image descriptions and tags to items already posted, but please tell me if you'd like anything to be tagged in a certain way. Thank you, and I hope we can share with each other and make this a happy and fun journey! -Sara

#my post #welcome #books #seattle #bookstore #poetry #writing

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Okay. You’re at the point that marathon runners call “the wall.” It’s quit or finish and you’d really rather quit, but you have all these words, and friends, family, and those nasty people at school or the office are waiting to see if you’ll finish. Try something small. Your character finds a box, a book, a message, a painting. It fascinates them until they have tracked down its history and meaning. These things can lead to a talisman for good or ill, something that carries you into your planned climax, something that helps your character meet a person they need to know for that climax to happen, something perilous that brings them to the climactic action wounded and full of doubt.

— Tamora Pierce, on finding the cracks in the wall. (via lettersandlight)

#nanowrimo #tamora pierce #ted talks #quotes

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Where can you go to find diverse books? Right here. Each of these sites offers lists of diverse titles. Our list of sites is not exhaustive, and we welcome suggestions of current, active sites that…

#diverse books #books #diversity

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[Image: a four panel comic by Anne Emond called "The Fall of the House of Usher." Shows a person reading the book "Stories by Edgar Allan Poe" with a sleeping cat next to them. The person becomes alarmed and puts down the book, looking over at the cat. In the last panel the person is seen with their arm around the cat, now awake and alarmed, as the person resumes reading the book.]

(via Bookish on Pinterest)

#Anne Emond #art #comic #cats #books

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[Image: painting by Otar Imerlishvili. A woman is shown seated next to a gramophone, holding a cat and book, with a cup of coffee on a table in front of her. There is a pendulum-style clock on the wall.]

The Girl with the Book — Otar Imerlishvili

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"The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends. There are all kinds of courage. You'll find yours." - Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire (The Circle Opens #3)

#tamora pierce #the circle opens #quotes

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[image: Photo of many old books on a shelf.]

☁Following back☁

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"For some at Norton, The Bear Comes Home, whose main character is a saxophone-playing, wise-cracking bear who quotes Tony Curtis and William Blake, is a daunting marketing problem.”

This 1998 New York Times profile of Rafi Zabor is compelling. Zabor won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1998 after years of financial and personal struggles. Gerald Howard (a former Norton editor who has worked with Don Delillo, David Foster Wallace, Paul Auster, and Chuck Palahniuk) calls The Bear Comes Home, “the best work of fiction on jazz.” Now, I must read it.