Deep Creek – BookBar Book Review Stephanie Vessely “For now,” writes Pam Houston in Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, “I want to sit vigil with the earth…I want to write unironic odes to …
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On Being 40ish Review by Stephanie Vessely
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 …

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 …

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 …

Don those Decrypter Caps for a Live Book Scavenger Hunt with Jennifer Chambliss-Bertman & Smiley Library
Celebrate the end of summer reading with a good old fashioned BOOK CAPER at BookBar and Smiley Library on Friday, August 4 at 5 PM with acclaimed middle-grade author, Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, of the adventuresome Book Scavenger. School is just around …

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 …