9 New Books We Recommend This Week Parenting and its attendant anxieties underlie a number of our recommended books this week, from Jonathan Haidt’s manifesto against technology in the hands of children to Emily Raboteau’s essays about ... 04/25/2024 - 10:31 am | View Link
Best of Boulder 2024: Food Overall Restaurant Blackbelly 1606 Conestoga St., Boulder Blackbelly is beloved by our voters because it best represents what “Boulder cuisine” can be. It has also been recognized with the most ... 04/25/2024 - 7:45 am | View Link
The Value of Books and Reading The quality, quantity and diversity of books produced by a society are important indicators of that society’s level of development. . . .” -Valdehusa (1985). April 23 of every year is marked around ... 04/22/2024 - 11:31 pm | View Link
Best Historical Fiction Chapter Books for Fourth Graders As a fourth-grade parent and avid reader, I've witnessed the magical journey historical fiction chapter books can take young readers on. These books transport them to different eras, allowing them to ... 04/11/2024 - 4:44 am | View Link
45 RV Gifts – The Best Gifts for RV Owners Are you looking for the best RV gifts for RV owners in your life? As a family who has lived in our RV full-time, and who has also camped in it part-time, we wanted to create this list of the best ... 09/5/2023 - 12:43 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.