Dear Friends of Birchbark Books, Casual Acquaintances, and New comers --
I am so glad to welcome you to our new online bookstore and website. Nathan Pederson designed the website to reflect the store. As you browse our virtual world, we hope that it gives you the feeling of being right here, in Minneapolis, at our actual place. Way back in the beginning of the store, one of our staff members noticed a woman sitting in one of our restuffed and reclaimed chairs, gazing up at the high old ceiling, listening to comforting Native music, (probably Joanne Shenandoah's Matriarch), and just . . . dreaming. Or was she having some sort of minor stroke? After a while, our staff member approached the woman tentatively and asked, "can I help you find something?"
"I've found it," said the woman, and continued sitting right there.
And now you've found us. Miigwech. We will continue to add new details, photographs, stories, and of course new titles. I will add to this blog whenever the moment is right.
Yours from the little bookstore with the big outlook,
Louise
I am so glad to welcome you to our new online bookstore and website. Nathan Pederson designed the website to reflect the store. As you browse our virtual world, we hope that it gives you the feeling of being right here, in Minneapolis, at our actual place. Way back in the beginning of the store, one of our staff members noticed a woman sitting in one of our restuffed and reclaimed chairs, gazing up at the high old ceiling, listening to comforting Native music, (probably Joanne Shenandoah's Matriarch), and just . . . dreaming. Or was she having some sort of minor stroke? After a while, our staff member approached the woman tentatively and asked, "can I help you find something?"
"I've found it," said the woman, and continued sitting right there.
And now you've found us. Miigwech. We will continue to add new details, photographs, stories, and of course new titles. I will add to this blog whenever the moment is right.
Yours from the little bookstore with the big outlook,
Louise
Comments
My family and I live in Texas, and have only been to Birchbark Bookstore once, so it is especially touching to see these tender drawings and notes on good books. They capture some of the charming warmth of where you are.
At the moment I am deep into writing about FOUR SOULS, and am struck by what a finely crafted and deeply felt book it is. For Scarecrow Press, I am compiling a reference guide called 21ST CENTURY GOTHIC: GREAT GOTHIC NOVELS SINCE 2000, and FOUR SOULS more than earned its place as one of the fifty-five most intriguing neo-Gothic works from around the world. It has both terror and a wintry humor, a woman who has been hurt and intends to hurt, and I simply haven't read anything as involving for a long time. If any haven't had a chance to read it, I'd reach for it next.
Cheers from Texas,
danel.olson@lonestar.edu