Denver Post: Books
- How puzzling can help you get your edge back
Monday - 04/22/2024 - 08:00 AMI’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Book Club: “The House on Mango Street” and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 04/09/2024 - 08:00 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Book Club: “Go As a River” and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 03/26/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Reading Den creating a “sexy literary scene” at one of Denver’s coolest bars
Monday - 02/26/2024 - 08:43 AMSexiness 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?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Book Club: “The Maniac” and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 02/20/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In new book, author Kristin Hannah turns her focus to women who served as nurses in Vietnam
Thursday - 02/08/2024 - 07:58 AMKristin Hannah was in elementary and middle school during the Vietnam War. The father of one of her close girlfriends was a pilot whose plane was shot down, and Hannah started wearing his POW bracelet.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Book Club: “Librarian of Burned Books,” “Dog Stars” and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 01/23/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “Study for Obedience” and more short book reviews from readers
Tuesday - 01/02/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Movie review: “The Boys in the Boat” sinks, but it should have been a winner
Friday - 12/22/2023 - 08:00 AMBe warned: “The Boys in the Boat” is no “Chariots of Fire.”
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Sorry, George.
The film, which is being released on Christmas Day, had all of the elements for a memorable movie: a big-name director (George Clooney); a handsome young leading man (Callum Turner); and a story filled with loads of inherent drama, like the Great Depression, the Olympics, Nazis, and a sweet romance. - Two new mysteries from Colorado authors
Monday - 12/04/2023 - 08:00 AM“Play of Shadows,” by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
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- The Book Club: “Talking to Strangers” and more short reviews from readers
Monday - 04/15/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “The First Migrants” and other books of regional interest
Monday - 04/01/2024 - 07:59 AM“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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Book Club: “Small Mercies” and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 03/05/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “Birding Under the Influence” and more short book reviews from readers
Tuesday - 02/27/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “Elon Musk,” by Walter Isaacson, and other short book reviews from readers
Tuesday - 02/06/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Book Club: “Ordinary Grace” and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 01/30/2024 - 07:59 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Denver Book Club: “The Dance Tree” and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 01/09/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “Harlem After Midnight,” “Fall” and more mystery books to kick off the year
Wednesday - 01/03/2024 - 08:00 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver Book Club: “The Bookbinder” and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 12/19/2023 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “Time Shelter,” by Georgi Gospodinov, and more short book reviews from readers
Tuesday - 12/05/2023 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Book Club: “Day,” by Michael Cunningham, and more short reviews from readers
Tuesday - 04/23/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “City in Ruins” and more mystery book reviews
Tuesday - 03/26/2024 - 08:00 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It’s never too late to fall in love with Star Wars
Monday - 03/18/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tik Tok star librarian resigns due to cyberbullying
Wednesday - 02/28/2024 - 01:39 PMMychal 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).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “The Survivors of the Clotilda” tells of the last slave ship to America | Book review
Monday - 02/05/2024 - 08:00 AMKossula 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.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This “Misery” deserves company at Miners Alley | Theater review
Thursday - 02/01/2024 - 08:00 AMGo out of curiosity or for its familiarity. Go for a fun night out or to support a high-quality local theater company. Regardless of your motivations, Miners Alley’s production of “Misery” delivers on its fair share of dark pleasures.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Book Club: “Kala,” “Poetry 180” and more short reviews from readers
Monday - 01/15/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- New book lays out the century-long war between Denver’s daily newspapers
Friday - 12/22/2023 - 08:00 AM“Colorado in the Civil War,” by John Steinle (Arcadia Publishing)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “A Brief History of Earth,” by Andrew H. Knoll, and more short reviews from readers
Wednesday - 12/27/2023 - 08:00 AMEditor’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.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “Starkweather” re-examines grisly 1950s murders by two teens | Book review
Monday - 11/27/2023 - 08:00 AMEven 65 years later, the name “Starkweather” brings chills.
Charles “Charlie” Starkweather, 19, accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, murdered 10 people in six days in Nebraska and Wyoming.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share