Best-selling author Alka Joshi to visit Joplin Tuesday Joplin Public Library hosts bestselling author Alka Joshi at 6 p.m Tuesday to speak about her debut novel, "The Henna Artist," which Joplin Reads Together selected as its ... 04/22/2024 - 6:26 am | View Link
Queer Reads: Katee Robert’s sapphic paranormal romance series continues with ‘Blood on the Tide’ NYT bestseller Katee Roberts expands her Crimson Sails universe with the second book of the series out this May. Mixing lesbian lust and paranormal fantasy, this title follows the popular TikTok ... 04/22/2024 - 4:17 am | View Link
Local opinion: As the U of A goes, so goes Tucson As Tucson goes, so goes the University of Arizona. Things haven’t been going very well for either of them. Both have been operating well below their potential for a long ... 04/22/2024 - 3:15 am | View Link
This YA Adaptation Never Achieved Its Full Potential Its success garnered a spin-off series of its own, Love, Victor. One of the first properties to be announced by Disney after the Mouse House acquired 20th Century Fox (the company that produced the ... 04/22/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Pinching Pennies for Putin Vladimir Putin’s ill-considered invasion of Ukraine handed the United States a once-in-a-generation geopolitical opportunity on the proverbial silver platter. But Vance et al. turn up their nose at ... 04/22/2024 - 2:05 am | View Link
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 all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer?
I’ve completed 17 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles in the past 14 weeks. Mostly by myself.
Over that same time, I also cut way back on booze, halved my phone screen time (okay, it’s maybe 30% less), and gone on a dozen hikes. All without losing a single cardboard piece.
I never really saw myself as a puzzler, but it’s become a nice way to put aside the problems of the world and focus on something else for five or 10 minutes, or for a couple of hours.
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 all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer?
“Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel,” by Shahnaz Habib (Catapult, 2023)
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 all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you.
“The Memory of Lavender and Sage,” by Aimie K. Runyan (Harper Muse)
Tempesta’s father is dead. His will leaves the family fortune to her brother. But to everyone’s surprise, the will gives Tempesta money that had belonged to her mother, who died years before. Tempesta has no reason to remain in New York. Her grandmother hates her, her brother is disdainful, and she’s bored with her newspaper job.
So on a whim, Tempesta buys, sight unseen, a house in her mother’s native Sainte-Colombe, France.
“End of Story,” by A. J. Finn (William Morrow)
“End of Story,” by A. J. Finn (William Morrow)
A. J. Finn’s “The Woman in the Window” was a huge best-seller. “End of Story” is destined to be, too. It’s a mystery more than a thriller, and a tightly crafted page-turner.
Literary critic Nicky Hunter is a huge fan of mystery writer Sebastian Trapp.