Hello Friends – I hope you’ve been having a great week. This week has been long and there were some stressful days but today the sun was shining, it’s almost the weekend and you can’t go wrong with that.

So today I have some links to share that I hope you’ll enjoy:

Did you see that the Seattle Mystery Bookshop needs a bit of help to keep the doors open? I haven’t visited this bookshop but I hope to one day travel to Seattle and of course would love to visit this place.

Speaking of travel, we know there are tons of guidebooks but for bookworms we also like to see the literary side of the cities we visit. Well, here’s where Eat This Poem comes in to help you with your itineraries. I love that my city, Austin, made it on the guide.

For those of you who love crime books/thrillers and would like to explore French authors, check out Le French Book. I have The Collector on my kindle and excited to discover this new series.

Now if you are more into art books then you have to check out Abrams Books. They carry books from art, photography, interior and garden design to performing arts, fashion, and popular culture. I don’t think they have a physical bookstore but if they did, that would be another on my bookstores to visit one day list.

Finally because we all like a great book bargain have you seen eReaderIQ? You can find deals on ebooks, track price drops, and you can even track when books become available for your Kindle. Neat.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. We are supposed to have warm temperatures, sunshine and that means it’s a good time for an afternoon gathering with friends, maybe a trail walk and of course books.

Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust links 80 sonnets in a narrative about a modern Pilgrim on a journey from rust belt Pennsylvania to the glittering suburbs of Marin County, California. The book takes great pleasure in questioning, tinkering with, and ultimately exploding the sonnet form. It has been well received, with more than 50 reviews and features since its release last April. Rumpus and the Washington Review of Books included it in their National Poetry Month picks, and the San Francisco Chronicle recently published this review.

Watch this video for an interview with poet Rebecca Foust at the Marin Poets Live! show presented by the Marin Free County Library:

In addition you can listen to a reading at The Cortland review:

About the author: Rebecca Foust was the 2014 Dartmouth Poet in Residence and is the recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sewanee Writer’s Conference Her fifth book, Paradise Drive, won the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry. Her other books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (Many Mountains Moving Prize), God, Seed (Foreword Book of the Year Award) and two chapbooks that won the Robert Phillips Chapbook Prizes in 2008 and 2009. Foust’s poems appear widely in journals including American Academy of Poets Poem-A-Day series, Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, Sewanee Review, and Verse Daily. A first generation college graduate, Foust attended Smith College (BA 1979), Stanford Law School (1979), and Warren Wilson College (MFA 2010). She lives in Northern California and works as Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and assistant editor for Narrative Magazine.

Visit Poetic Book Tours for more about Paradise Drive and to follow the blog tour.