Fun Is Coming!

You needn’t be a newcomer to the area to reap benefits from Kim Schneider’s new book, 100 Things to Do in Traverse City Before You Die, for a couple of reasons. First, even if you’ve lived here all your life, new things to do pop up every year, and it’s unlikely you’ve done them all. Then there is the question of summer visitors. When you don’t have time to guide your company personally through every hour of their Up North vacation, or if they are independent enough to venture off on their own, handing them this book will make life easier and breezier for all concerned. Kim’s ideas go beyond the city limits, reaching into Benzie and Leelanau counties. Relevant addresses, websites, and phone numbers are included. 

Kim Schneider will be my Thursday Evening Authors guest on July 5, starting at 7 p.m. Come hang out with us! Kim is FUN!

(Psst! If you can't wait until July 5, I have a few signed copies on hand now, so stop in today!)

100 Things To Do in Traverse City Before You Die

by Kim Schneider

Reedy Press, paper, 146pp.

$16

Inauguration Day

This is the first post of what will be a much less wordy blog than my original (and still lively) Books in Northport. Here goes! Post #1:

Today's news is a book that just arrived, moments ago, hot off the presses, right in time for our long-awaited spring hiking season. Definitely a must for the Up North home library, a great gift for hostess or guest or to mark a vacation or anniversary or -- the list goes on.

I'm happy to note that while M-22 trails are the main thrust of the book, the author went out of his way, into and through Northport, to include trails between our village and the end of the peninsula. I particularly love the way each map shows elevations, so you can see at a glance how much climbing you'll be doing.

The Trails of M-22: 40 of the Most Beautiful Paths Along Michigan's Most Beautiful Highway, by Jim DuFresne, is going to be a sizzling hot seller this summer in Leelanau bookstores! The price is good, too -- $19.95, and it's in full color, produced and printed in Michigan!