Pikes Peak Library District
September 19 at 7:26 AM ·
Ken Stattman
September 21 at 4:37 PM ·
Louis L’Amour’s The Warrior’s Path is an exciting historical fiction. As the next generation of Sacketts continue the families quest of the new land. Kin and Yance are pursued from all sides as they attempt to save two young girls from slavers.
Though Sackett thought otherwise saying, “We do our own work,” it was pointed out to them that slavery had existed for thousands of years and was not illegal. It was also not limited by race. Apparently Epstein’s island existed in the 1600’s as Kin Sackett leaves for the West Indies to find a girl taken there by slavers.
The action never stops, the writing is great and there’s much to be learned as well.
Hello to all. Hooked on Books downtown,
12 East Bijou, will now be open 10 to 3 Sunday’s ,
starting this Sunday, Sept. 6..
Note: We will be closed Monday, Labor Day. Cheers to all.
Wearing a mask and social distancing is our Patriotic service to help keep us all alive and heal the country. Thank you all for coming in with your mask on.
Hope to see you soon. Jim, Mary, Aubrie, Ivy.
Leigh TrabalFRIENDS AND FICTION
September 2 at 9:58 AM ·
Joanne Harris, one of my favorite authors 📓
TODAY & Tomorrow!! STORY TIME GIVEAWAY at both Hooked on Books locations!!
Also,
@lilmissstoryhour is THIS SATURDAY at 1pm!
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August 19 at 4:45 PM ·
Support small businesses like Malik Books together with Facebook Groups. #MoreTogether
This is one of the coolest people I know! And, he does our book reviews! Hey Ken, how about teaching a creative writing class at Hooked On Books!
Ken Stattman
October 8 at 3:04 PM ·
Some friends think I’m from Chicago and aren’t buying my anniversary story so how about this. 41 years ago Carol ran away from home. She boarded a Greyhound bus to Chicago, Illinois home of the blues. I was singing in a band named Olive Branch and the Dominions of Peace. Paul Butterfield often sat in and once Muddy Waters came by. At a gig on Wells Street Carol walked up to me at a break and handed me some sheet music she had written. It was good stuff that the band wanted to use. But I didn’t want to pay her any royalties, so I married her. We’ve been singing the blues ever since.
Our young railroad engineer, Ryan set up the trains for Halloween. Our window display is by Victoria. Three hoots for Hooked on Books! Happy Halloween!! 🎃
Thanks, Elaine Smith!
National Library of Scotland
May 31, 2018 at 9:40 AM ·
This poem from Julia Donaldson is *ridiculously* lovely. You should read it :-)
#ThursdayThoughts
Thanks for the reminder, Gretchen Wade!
Urban Goddess3
October 1 at 4:26 PM ·
110%
Dr. Nina Ansary
October 8 at 8:27 AM ·
American poet Louise Glück has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, praised for a voice that "makes individual existence universal."
#NobelPrize2020 #WomenInHistory
Jill Badonsky
September 22 at 9:22 AM ·
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around.
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
Let's all get up and move around a bit right now... or at least dance.
Nice post, Barbara Blake.
95.7 The Jet
March 13, 2018 at 9:01 PM ·
Does anyone read real books anymore?
Happening NOW!! Lil Miss Story HOUR!!
Miss Vanessa’s Piano Studio was live.
October 24 at 12:35 PM ·
This title is on it’s way!
Fannie Flagg
October 20 at 11:26 AM ·
One week to go! Thank you to Kirkus for this wonderful review of THE WONDER BOY OF WHISTLE STOP.
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
A Novel
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
A Novel
See more at
randomhousebooks.com
One week to go! Thank you to Kirkus for this wonderful review of THE WONDER BOY OF WHISTLE STOP.
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
A Novel
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
A Novel
See more at
randomhousebooks.com
More Red Shuttleworth recommendation. Thank you, Red!
Red Shuttleworth
October 14 at 2:56 PM ·
If you want to read the West, read great writers....
Recommended by Red Shuttleworth, who knows great westerns.
Red Shuttleworth
October 14 at 2:59 PM ·
Read about the West... read great authors....
Thank you, Anthony Sacco!
Book Worms is with Roseanne Mary James and 2 others.
November 18 at 5:27 AM ·
Jim Ciletti
November 21 at 8:11 AM ·
Trump bragged about getting respirators to hospitals. Sort of like bragging about getting artificial arms and legs to blownup soldiers after you sent them to war without the right equipment. If Trumpee had mandated masks and distancing and stay at home in March, respirators would not be needed. Trump has failed. We are dying. Great for casket makers. Sold 1400 yesterday. Snap out of it America. Mask up or stay home.
David Needle
November 1 at 8:06 PM ·
• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
Ken Stattman
November 19 at 7:34 PM ·
In Northern Minnesota there is constant conflict between the Anishinaabe People, their casino, the logging business, fishing rights, and tourist trade. There are threats flying around from all directions and the townspeople are taking sides.
Cork O’Connor is being pushed back toward his job as sheriff but it is causing a lot of strain between him and his wife, Jo.
There’s a character modeled after Dennis Hale who wrote his autobiography entitled Sole Survivor. On November 29,1966 he was the only survivor of the 28 men aboard an ore tanker named the Daniel J Morrell which sank on Lake Huron. Other than that little piece of history, the rest of Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger is a well written fiction.
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Ross Studios is at Ross Studios.
January 16 at 8:05 PM · Colorado Springs, CO ·
Incredible sunset outside the studio this evening! #sunset #coloradosunset #customartframing #rossstudios #flyinghorsecolorado #pikespeak
Happy Birthday!
Red Shuttleworth
February 2 at 11:53 AM ·
James Joyce....
Dozen Best Books
January 30 at 1:00 AM ·
Yes
Dozen Best Books is with Rocco Rigante and 2 others.
January 26 at 1:29 AM ·
True
Dozen Best Books is with Rocco Rigante and Pauline Viens Robert.
January 27 at 12:34 AM ·
What we should all strive to do for the next generation
Ken Stattman
January 27 at 8:48 AM ·
Deadly Cross is the 28th installment of the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. There are supporting characters that will be familiar to fans of the series but the book can also stand on its own. There’s family drama, personal tragedy and three murder cases to solve.
As the murder mystery unfolds, blame seems to fall onto two women off their med.s. Some of the investigating gets a bogged down but what can you say about watching maps and a computer screen.
There’s also plenty of action with Celebs getting shot in the ass. A socialite and a school administrator shot with their pants down. Who was the target? A crooked attorney too.
I enjoyed the book but wonder how much longer Alex Cross can survive.