By Ginny Short Blanco’s recent book of poems is vivid and startling. There is no pretense of language or cleverness or attempt at intellectual gymnastics in this collection. What I love about it most is that it is completely approachable. …
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15 Books you should add to your list this #InternationalWomensDay
By Kateri Kramer This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating balance. #BalanceForBetter because a balanced world is a better world. How can you help forge a more gender-balanced world? Celebrate women’s writing. Recommend books written by women. Take action for equality …
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BookBar Review: Deep Creek by Pam Houston
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 …
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 …
