On Being 40(ish) – BookBar Book Review by Stephanie Vessely It seems cliché to say that when I turned forty last year I felt a shift. I don’t mean that when I woke on my birthday my life was suddenly …
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Vote Her In Review
Book Review: Vote Her In By: Stephanie Vessely “No more nice girls,” writes Rebecca Sive in Vote Her In: Your Guide To Electing Our First Woman President, quoting early feminist writer Ellen Willis. “Forget turning a blind eye. Forget nicely …
Sometimes We Tell the Truth – Review
When I first saw this book, I dismissed it. I thought the book would be childish, boring and not to my reading tastes. But then I wanted something to read and I remembered a book. This book that I had …
Review: The Wildlands by Abby Geni
By Julie MacKissok Whenever I read a book, I am looking for that line. You know the one. The line that tells me everything I didn’t know about the world before reading the book in my …
Book Review: All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung
All You Can Ever Know – BookBar Book Review By: Stephanie Vessely “Back then,” Nicole Chung writes in her memoir, All You Can Ever Know, “I still had to think of adoption as an unqualified good, a benefit to every …
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The King Was Pregnant: Celebrating Ursula K. Le Guin’s Influence on Gender in Science Fiction
Sci-fi author Ursula Le Guin died at age 88 on Monday, she was a pioneer of genre, particularly when it came to representing alternative gender roles. Her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, published in 1969, is considered to be …
13 BookBar Staff picks from 2017
2017 may be over, but your reading list from the year sure isn’t, and don’t even try to pretend like it is. This was a year packed with essentials, and the list of favorites around here is overflowing, so we …
Staff Flash Review: ‘The Immortalists’ by Chloe Benjamin
Imagine knowing the day you were going to die, your entire life. Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists follow four siblings as they live their lives, each shadowed by the date of their deaths. There’s the fearless Simon who learns to live …
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Griffin Reviews ‘Wishtree’ by Katherine Applegate
Our own Bookworm Griffin wrote his review for Wishtree below, but for the more visual types, he was kind enough to do a video review as well! Spoiler alert. You shouldn’t read this book unless you’re prepared to cry a little. Even …
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Staff Review: ‘The Three-Body Problem’ by Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu, as is the case with most great science fiction authors, has a proclivity for inspiring a unique hope in me. This is the kind of story that makes me want to get up and do something, makes me …
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