There’s an awful lot of documentation on the history of banned books on the internet. Enough in fact, that one might insinuate talking about banned books is a lot more popular than actually banning books. I’ve learned over time however, …
Month: September 2017
8-ish Reasons to Have Your Book Club at BookBar
Let’s just get one thing out of the way real quick–we’re not about to make a list blog, and only titled it as such to get clicks. We’d like to pretend that a person with an interest in a book-related …
September Books for Kids and Teens
Here are the reviews written by our BookWorms for the month of September! Vivian-The Way to Bea Title:The Way to Bea Author: Kat Yeh Publisher: Little, Brown Books Release Date: September 19 The Way to Bea is about a girl named …
Dogs (and cat) of BookBar!
Do you love dogs? Yes, you do. How about a cat? If not, focus on the dogs. Nearly every person on our staff has at least one pet and it’s time they had the spotlight for a change. Besides, we …
How Starfish: Her Infinite Impact is Working to Make Illiteracy a Distant Memory in Guatemala
Guest bloggers Kathryn White, with Nami Patel Starfish Shhh. Don’t tell Nicole this, but my favorite bookstore in all the world is Libros del Lago, a tiny bookstore along Calle Santander in Panajachel, Guatemala. It’s sandwiched between an ice …
What is Labor Day, How Can I Celebrate it, and When Should I Be Wearing White?
Labor Day was invented back in the early 1920s to by the fashion industry to convince rich white-collar workers to buy more expensive, colorful clothes. It’s a little-known fact that white-collar workers used to wear exclusively white clothes to work …
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