Mostly it was the best of times but after 10 years of dedicating much of my life to BookBar, I’m ready to switch things up. No one was more surprised than I was when it started looking like BookBar would …
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Colorado Association of Libraries 2022 Julie J. Boucher Community Honor Roll Award for Promoting Intellectual Freedom
This award recognizes a Colorado individual (or group) not directly affiliated with libraries who promotes intellectual freedom. CAL cited Nicole Sullivan’s “brave response to the American Booksellers Association and staunch support of protecting the intellectual freedom of those in the …
Black Booksellers Matter
This is my fourth letter in three months. I hope you don't mind that this is turning into a personal blog series. Extraordinary times call for ever greater honesty and transparency.
BookBar Turns 7: Ch-Ch-Changes (Turn and Face the Strange)
Chapter 7: Every person, business, and organization has handled this Covid situation differently. For me, roughly half-way through the shut-down and quarantine, I resolved to come out of this a better person and to make BookBar a better business.
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BookBar in the Time of Covid
BookBar was built on a vision of our community socializing through literature and a common love of books and reading. That has been our business model for the past seven years. We’ve witnessed countless touching moments of collaborations, partnerships, friendships, …
Raising Readers
By Marilyn Robbins Raising a reader is one of the most important gifts you can give your child. Learning to read is not easy. It takes a lot of hard work for several years for any child to master reading …
July Cookbook Club Pick: The Peach Truck Cookbook by Jessica N. Rose and Stephen K. Rose
July in Colorado means peaches! Which is why, for our July Cookbook Club pick, we’ve selected a peachtastic cookbook full of recipes perfect for showcasing Colorado’s Palisade peaches: The Peach Truck Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes for All Things Peach by …
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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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BookBar Book Review: The Reenactments by Hai-Dang Phan
By Blaine Heydt Hai-Dang Phan’s Reenactments exists in the in-between. Sorry Stranger Things fans, nothing otherworldly about it, this work is in this world and of this world. Reenactments’ “in-between” lies in the idea that life exists between our current …
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