Imagine knowing the day you were going to die, your entire life. Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists follow four siblings as they live their lives, each shadowed by the date of their deaths. There’s the fearless Simon who learns to live …
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A BookBar Holiday, and a Thank You
It’s rare that the entire BookBar staff is together in one place outside of a staff meeting. In fact, our Christmas decorating night may be the closest we come to it outside of the yearly staff party. There’s a pretty …
How to Pretend You’ve Read a Book
Dear BookBar customers, I have a confession. I’ve never read anything by Tana French. I had to look at the back of the book when I told you what Euphoria by Lily King was about, because I never read …
The Mystery of The Berensta(e)in Bears Books (which happen to be 40% off at BookBar right now!)
There has been a slowly dawning phenomena over the past several years, most specifically as Millennials have come of age and begun their phase of existential introspection. The time for nostalgic remembrance, the longing for the “simpler” times–that stage of …
7 Time-Travel Books for Falling Back, and Combating Seasonal Affective Disorder
It’s once again time to fall back which is exciting for the sake of more sleep, but more importantly, that means it’s time to post think-pieces on why daylight savings time is an ancient useless relic of the past and …
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Six Literary Departures
This piece is written by the recently departed (from BookBar, not her mortal coil) Allie Levy, our former events coordinator. She decided it was time to move on to bigger and better things, but hasn’t forgotten her small-time pals here in Denver. …
Jessica Townsend’s new middle grade fantasy Nevermoor gets magic and wonder ‘just right’
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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