Having grown up in south Louisiana, I’m no stranger to disaster preparedness. Hurricane season coincided with the end of school/beginning of summer break and meant stockpiling canned foods, dry cereals, crackers, batteries, and flashlights. Ensuring your car never dipped below …
Month: June 2017
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 …
Abbie- The World’s Greatest Chocolate Covered Pork Chops
Title: The World’s Greatest Chocolate Covered Pork Chops Author: Ryan K. Sager Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Release Date: June, 2017 This book is a book about 12 year old Zoey Kate and her friend Dallin. Zoey is a chef and she makes odd …
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Bookbar Book Club this Week!
Come to BookBar for fine art, and maybe even read a book too! Our Marketing Coordinator, Erin will be hosting this month’s book club featuring Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet. Come for the book, stay for the booze and …
Staff Review: ‘Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore’ by Matthew Sullivan
Imagine this: a juggler has three red balls, a bowling pin, his left shoe, a lit candle, and a full glass of beer in the air. How’s he going to catch it all without either burning himself or spilling any …
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My Day with Melissa Savage, Author of Lemons
A sign in Charlie’s Bigfoot store in Willow Creek, California reads, “Take a Story. Leave a Story.” Ten year old Lemonade Liberty Witt has just lost her mother and is on her way to live with her grandfather, a man …
Reading Deficiency: I Made it Through Fifty Pages of Alan Moore’s ‘Jerusalem’
I have a propensity for reading mere portions of a book, sometimes because I’ve grown bored with it, other times because I’m just lazy. I’ll often find nearly any excuse to not read, even when I want to. One …
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Orphan Island – BookWorm Review
Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder is about an island which holds nine orphans at a time. Every year on the same day a boat appears carrying one 3 year old and taking the eldest away never to return. One year the …
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