Chip and Joanna Gaines land high on our best-seller list with 'Magnolia Story.'
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Chip and Joanna Gaines land high on our best-seller list with 'Magnolia Story.'
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Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and other readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer? Email bellis@denverpost.com. “Sisters under the Rising Sun,” by Heather Morris (St.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareMychal Threets, a Northern California librarian who went viral on Tik-Tok earlier this year, has resigned from his post to focus on his mental health. After amassing 745,000 followers and 15 million likes on the app, Threets says he experienced harrowing cyberbullying on that platform and the social media site X (formerly Twitter). Known online for sharing his unique brand of positivity, mental health support and “library joy,” Threets was named a winner of the American Library Association’s “I Love My Librarian” award for 2023 — one of just 10 winners nationwide from a pool of over 1,400 librarians. “Dear Solano County Library, I just want to say thank you,” Threets said in a Tik-Tok video announcing his resignation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEditor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and other readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer? Email bellis@denverpost.com. “Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery,” by Dorian Anderson (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2023) “Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery,” by Dorian Anderson (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2023) This is the startling true story of a young lab scientist addicted to drugs and alcohol.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSexiness sells. But outside of steamy romance novels, how does that apply to literature? What’s the carnal thrust of listening to someone read — even at a bar, where flirtatious glances rain from the ceiling? You’d be surprised. “Part of the magic of reading a book is in the sharing that happens afterward, when you recommend it to a friend or you talk to someone about what you loved or hated about it,” said Amanda Boldenow, co-owner of the newly opened Spell Books in Littleton.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEditor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and other readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer? Email bellis@denverpost.com. “Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories,” by Lily King (Grove Press, 2021) “Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories,” by Lily King (Grove Press, 2021) Lily King’s novel “Writers and Lovers” is a favorite of mine, so I was willing to read “Five Tuesdays in Winter,” although I tend to avoid short stories.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareKossula was just 19 years old when rival African warriors swept through his town in what is now Nigeria, killing and capturing him and others. The captives walked for days, then were penned up for weeks before being loaded onto the Clotilda for a 45-day journey across the water to the United States. Terrified, the prisoners of that 1860 voyage were crowded onto “shelves, their clothes ripped from them, and they lay for days in their own filth, crying for water and food.” Once they reached their destination, they were chained and marched through swamps and woods until they were sold into slavery. The Survivors of the Clotilda, by Hannah Durkin (Amistad) After a lifetime that included brutal slavery and years of poverty and starvation, Kossula, still remembered the terrors of his capture and the details of his homeland shortly before his death in 1935, at the age of 94.
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