We had such fun hosting middle grade author, Jessica Townsend, at BookBar. Review by: Widget, BookWorm, age 9 Morrigan Crow is going to die. She will, as every cursed child does, leave this world. But Morrigan doesn’t think that she’ll …
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Scary Stories for the Spooky Season
This time of year always revives the same old questions: When’s it gonna snow? What are you gonna be for Halloween? Will anyone remember to vote when presidential candidates aren’t on the ballot? Will Halloween finally fall on Friday the 13th …
The Reader’s Guide to America’s Gun Debate
To call this subject a “sensitive” one might be appropriate, if a little lackluster. Calling it a “goddamn minefield” might be a little more honest. Nevertheless, it rises up again and again, in think pieces, blogs, non-sequitur tweets, and worst …
Dogs (and cat) of BookBar!
Do you love dogs? Yes, you do. How about a cat? If not, focus on the dogs. Nearly every person on our staff has at least one pet and it’s time they had the spotlight for a change. Besides, we …
How Starfish: Her Infinite Impact is Working to Make Illiteracy a Distant Memory in Guatemala
Guest bloggers Kathryn White, with Nami Patel Starfish Shhh. Don’t tell Nicole this, but my favorite bookstore in all the world is Libros del Lago, a tiny bookstore along Calle Santander in Panajachel, Guatemala. It’s sandwiched between an ice …
What is Labor Day, How Can I Celebrate it, and When Should I Be Wearing White?
Labor Day was invented back in the early 1920s to by the fashion industry to convince rich white-collar workers to buy more expensive, colorful clothes. It’s a little-known fact that white-collar workers used to wear exclusively white clothes to work …
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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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