WV Book Team: New releases and a poet's love affair with the Mountain State This month we spotlight poet Kirk Judd. Judd has lived, worked, trout fished and wandered around in West Virginia all of his life. Judd was a member of the Appalachian ... 05/3/2024 - 5:00 pm | View Link
Book excerpt: "You Never Know" by Tom Selleck In his new memoir the star of such hit TV series as "Magnum, P.I." and "Blue Bloods" writes of the serendipity that launched his career. 05/3/2024 - 7:47 am | View Link
BOOK REVIEWS: ‘The Last Outlaws,’ ‘God Save Benedict Arnold’ and ‘A Murder in Hollywood’ I’ve recently read and enjoyed three interesting historical true crime books. The books cover Wild West bank robbers, a notorious traitor, a movie star and her gangster boyfriend. 05/2/2024 - 9:45 am | View Link
Six Book Marketing Strategies Proven By Real Authors Divya Parekh, of The DP Group, covers business growth, storytelling, high-impact performance and authority building. As countless books compete for readers' attention, book marketing is a critical ... 05/2/2024 - 2:19 am | View Link
Knox Co. elementary school students to get free copies of graphic novel for 3rd year of 'One Book Read City' The initiative is meant to kick off a summer of reading, encouraging students across Knox County to continue reading and develop literacy skills. 05/1/2024 - 8:58 am | View Link
Wild (memoir) Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is the 2012 memoir by the American writer, author, and podcaster Cheryl Strayed. The memoir describes Strayed's 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 as a journey of self-discovery. 05/3/2024 - 5:12 am | View Website
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State — and she would do it alone. 05/2/2024 - 9:55 pm | View Website
Wild by Cheryl Strayed (ebook) #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. 05/2/2024 - 5:49 am | View Website
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Several thousand romance readers from across the country descended on the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center two weeks ago for Readers Take Denver, billed as a four-day conference where bibliophiles would have the chance to mingle with their favorite authors, get books signed, and attend panels and other events.
But attendees say the April 18-21 conference was so disorganized and chaotic — self-described “RTD survivor” Kelli Meyer referred to it as “the Fyre Festival of books” — that authors soon began pulling out of next year’s event at the Aurora hotel, which already was on sale.
This week, Readers Take Denver announced its 2025 edition was canceled.
“I’ve been to many conferences and this, by far, was the worst one I’ve ever been to,” said Sarah Slusarczyk, a 32-year-old who traveled from Michigan.
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?
This month, several Denver-area histories serve as summer tour guides.
“The Scenic History of Denver Cemeteries: From Cheesman Park to Riverside,” by Phil Goodstein (New Social Publications)
“The Scenic History of Denver Cemeteries: From Cheesman Park to Riverside,” by Phil Goodstein (New Social Publications)
Of the first dozen people buried in Mount Prospect, Denver’s first cemetery, two were hanged for murder, five died from gunshot wounds, and one committed suicide. No wonder the early city fathers wanted the graveyard to be far from the city center.
Mount Prospect was expanded to include a Jewish section.
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?