If you’ve followed the club, then you know that this month we’ve been cooking from Alana Kysar’s excellent debut, Aloha Kitchen: Recipes from Hawai’i. Well, in addition to choosing a new cookbook each month, we’re taking it one step further …
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Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Review
by Chris Moncaleiden As a student of counseling, I have read many books that stray deep into theories of human growth. I have noticed that while fields such as "self-help" are flourishing, there are few books that pull back the …
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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Why We are Giving Away The Mueller Report
BookBar’s non-profit organization, BookGive, is providing complimentary copies of The Mueller Report, published by our friends at Melville House Publishing. Regardless of which side of the political divide you may fall, we can all probably agree on the importance of …
CookBook BookClub: Indian-ish by Priya Krishna
By Becky LeJeune BookBar is launching a new cookbook club! Each month, BookBar will highlight a different cookbook, inviting the community to ‘cook with us’ throughout the month, sharing pictures and comments about the recipes they try on social media! …
Staying Power: Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Sabrina & Corina
Sabrina & Corina is a hearth fire in the form of short stories. Colorado author Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s indigenous Latina characters burn with the power of home, beckoning the reader to come closer, to feel the heat.
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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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BookBar Book Review: How To Love A Country by Richard Blanco
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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