Guest post by Kevin Simpson from The Colorado Sun. Disruption in the media industry has claimed many casualties, including thousands of jobs nationally and hundreds in Colorado. Avid readers of literature probably have noticed something else in short supply: coverage …
The Eight New Releases We’re Excited About In October
Here are some of the new titles we're excited for you to read in October:
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Book Club Suggestions from BookBar’s Cookbook Club: Double Awesome Chinese Food Edition
If you’ve followed the club, then you know that this month we’ve been cooking from Andrew, Irene, and Margaret Li’s excellent Double Awesome Chinese Food: Irresistible and Totally Achievable Recipes From Our Chinese-American Kitchen.
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The 7 New Releases We’re Excited About in September
Here are some of the new titles we're excited for you to read in September!
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Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Review
by Chris Moncaleiden As a student of counseling, I have read many books that stray deep into theories of human growth. I have noticed that while fields such as "self-help" are flourishing, there are few books that pull back the …
June Cookbook Club Pick: Aloha Kitchen by Alana Kysar
Our June Cookbook Club pick is Alana Kysar’s Aloha Kitchen: Recipes from Hawai’i. You might wonder what constitutes Hawaiian cooking. You might even suspect that it’s just Spam and/or pineapple heavy cuisine - but you would be sorely mistaken. Yes, …
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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered & Come to Our Murderino Release Party
By Sarah Dealy Being a woman is scary and hard. You have to hold your keys in between your fingers as you walk to your car, make sure you dress pretty (not sexy, sexy is asking for it), have 911 pre dialed if …
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CookBook BookClub: Indian-ish by Priya Krishna
By Becky LeJeune BookBar is launching a new cookbook club! Each month, BookBar will highlight a different cookbook, inviting the community to ‘cook with us’ throughout the month, sharing pictures and comments about the recipes they try on social media! …
Staying Power: Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Sabrina & Corina
Sabrina & Corina is a hearth fire in the form of short stories. Colorado author Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s indigenous Latina characters burn with the power of home, beckoning the reader to come closer, to feel the heat.
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BookBar Review: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Review By Kateri Kramer Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb begins with a mantra I’ve employed myself a few times. Quickly though, the reader finds out that what author and therapist …
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The Collected Schizophrenias Book Review
The Collected Schizophrenias Book Review by Stephanie Vessely “I am trying to say that I am a wife,” writes Esmé Weijun Wang in The Collected Schizophrenias. “I am a good patient, I am an entrepreneur. I am also schizoaffective, living …
Amy Irvine Sits Down With Rachel Hamalian To Talk About Edward Abbey, Writing, and The Desert
Rachel Hamalain: In your new book, Desert Cabal, you confront the claims that Edward Abbey made in his book, Desert Solitaire – on its 50th anniversary. What inspired you to make this confrontation? Amy Irvine: It’s a very odd backstory. …
Icelandic Book Exchange Comes To BookBar
Icelanders really know how to celebrate the holiday season. Each year, families and friends get together on December 24 and exchange books before heading to bed with a book and some chocolate. The tradition is so important to Icelandic culture, …
How Audiobooks Made Me a Runner
We think we have the manual for ourselves memorized and in our back pockets. Two years ago, I would have recited the following about myself: I am not a runner because: a. I get bored after a couple miles, and …
Happy Women’s Month, Fellas! 5 Recommendations for your ‘2018 Feminist Book Club for Men’
Recently, I overheard a man talking with two of my female friends. I watched as their typical politically-charged repartee turned to post-Weinstein wave of sexual harassment allegations. The man jested, saying that the women making all these accusations are probably …
Sandhya Menon is Coming to BookBar and the BookWorms Are in Love
So you’ve probably heard that Sandhya Menon is coming to BookBar on August 20th at 4 PM, right? I, Emma the BookWorm, a young woman who refuses to do anything but hide in her room and read stories about Jack …
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Grown Ups! We Dare you to Read Without Walls
A few months ago, I sat with a group of four nine-year-olds on tiny chairs. Most of them were meeting for the first time with the intention of picking out new books and talking about the books they had read …
The Hearts of Men Are …
It’s a strange social political moment to ruminate on the white middle class American male. The patriarchy. The big guys. The ones that ever seem to be in the driver’s seat. In The Hearts of Men, Nickolas Butler crafts a …
BookBar’s Extremely Official Response to Extremely Negative Comments… With Book Recommendations!
After our Drag Queen Storytime was targeted by white supremacists this week, we received an outpouring of support and kindness from our community. We also received some negative comments via phone messages, email, social media, and in response to the …
