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Here are 6 delightful beach reads, even if you’re not going to the beach this summer

Needing something to read that conjures up lightness; something that takes you away from worries and lets you spend time with pleasant people falling in love? Seattle Times book critic Moira Macdonald recommends these six titles.

(Jennifer Luxton / The Seattle Times)
(Jennifer Luxton / The Seattle Times)
Books

Here are 6 delightful beach reads, even if you’re not going to the beach this summer

Needing something to read that conjures up lightness; something that takes you away from worries and lets you spend time with pleasant people falling in love? Seattle Times book critic Moira Macdonald recommends these six titles.

Events

Washington State Fair canceled due to coronavirus concerns Updated

Rides at the Puyallup Fair glow as the sun goes down Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. This year’s Puyallup Fair will come to an end on Sunday, as well as its name. The Puyallup Fair was originally called the Valley Fair and in 1913 it switched to the Western Washington Fair and in 1976 became the Puyallup Fair. The fair draws more than a million visitors over a 17-day run. Next year it will be receiving a new name, the Washington State Fair, a change designed to reflect the bigness of the event and avoid a word that trips up many newcomers.

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Sur La Table files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will close nearly half its stores Updated

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Saffron Spice in Rainier Valley has a small Indo-Chinese menu that features spicy, wok-fried Hakka noodles and crispy Manchurian chicken in a ginger soy sauce with three kinds of chilis.
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FILE – In this June 4, 2020 file photo, people play blackjack at the reopening of the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas.With more casinos and businesses reopening and health officials charting a recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, Nevada lawmakers on Friday, June 12, 2020 approved Gov. Steve Sisolak’s plan to plug an $812 million budget deficit blamed on the coronavirus pandemic. An oversight committee vote to approve the Democratic governor’s plan was along party lines, with Republicans united against it. State tax revenues plunged after Gov. Sisolak closed business and casinos in mid-March to prevent the spread of the communicable COVID-19 illness. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) LA103 LA103
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** FILE ** Mary Kay Letourneau holds her baby — one of two fathered by Vili Fualaau, one of her former sixth-grade students — in Normandy Park, Wash. in this July 20, 1997 file photo. Letourneau, now 42, will be freed from prison Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004 after serving a seven-year term for child rape stemming from her relationship with Fualaau. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Betty Udesen, File) WASET501

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Sur La Table, selling kitchenware, cookware, cutlery, cooks’ tools, small electrics, tabletop and linens, bakeware, glassware and more, files for bankruptcy.

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Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a coronavirus task force briefing at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, on Wednesday, July 8, 2020, where he talked about the return to school in the the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, is at left. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times) XNYT73 XNYT73

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The Yakama Indian Reservation is pictured from above on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020 near Harrah, Wash.

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While plenty of restaurants were open on Alki Beach, a sign was posted shortly after 2 p.m. telling customers that Duke’s Seafood Alki is temporarily closed Wednesday during what would have been lunch service, July 8, 2020 in West Seattle. 214442

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Christy Karras practices the ukulele she’s learning to play via videoconference. Credit: Bill Harper

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Here are 6 delightful beach reads, even if you’re not going to the beach this summer

Here are 6 delightful beach reads, even if you’re not going to the beach this summer

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A Peregrine Falcon chick that still has baby fuzz on the top of its head, looks out from a service platform under the west end of the West Seattle Bridge where it landed after its first flight last week. The chick decided that was enough flying for one day and laid down to take a nap after its maiden flight. The Falcon baby came from a man made nest installed under the bridge by the Department of Transportation about 20 years ago. The Falcon parents recently had three chicks. One landed on West Marginal Way after it tried to fly from its nest and was killed by a vehicle. The second chick landed on the low bridge and was taken to PAWS until it is ready to fly, and this chick, waiting for its wings to mature so it can safely fly, hunt, and survive. Linesonly LO LO LO Photographed on June 16, 2020. 214317
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Falcon family living under West Seattle Bridge grows with fledging chicks

dee Gordon does defensive drills on the infield of T-Mobile Park Monday. The Seattle Mariners Summer Camp continued Monday, July 6, 2020 at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, WA. 214377
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Gas Works Park unusually quiet for a Fourth of July  VIEW