Nonfiction
A New Perspective on Change Arrives in Denver with Lori Montry’s You’re Not the Problem
In a culture that often tells people to try harder, stay disciplined, and push through discomfort, Lori Montry’s upcoming book launch event in Denver offers a different starting point. Her message is simple but powerful. Many of the struggles people blame on themselves may have far deeper roots.
By Chris Adamsabout 9 hours ago in BookClub
Long Live The Book Club
Haruki Murakami once said, “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” He had a point, but perhaps he didn't count on the fact that many want to feel like they belong with others, and share something meaningful.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 6 days ago in BookClub
The Marketplace of Vision
In the early hours before the rush of the workday, there is a quiet ritual many artists practice: checking the studio, straightening prints, wiping a fingerprint from acrylic, studying compositions in morning light. For the modern digital artist, that ritual often happens across a screen—yet the care is identical. Files are reviewed like negatives from a darkroom. Tones are balanced. Titles are chosen with intent. And with a click, the studio door opens not to a physical street, but to a global thoroughfare of collectors, curators, and casual art lovers who pass by, pause, and sometimes carry a piece of the artist’s vision back into their lives.
By Organic Products 8 days ago in BookClub
James Parsons Jr
James Parsons Jr. (1900 -1989) – Iron alloy ORDER HERE In the vast and often overlooked world of industrial innovation, certain individuals shape the future not through fanfare or celebrity, but through the relentless pursuit of improvement. These are the inventors whose hands never rested, whose minds wove new possibilities from raw materials, transforming entire industries in the process. Among them stands James Parsons Jr. (1900–1989), a metallurgist and inventor whose work quietly laid important groundwork for the development of stainless steel—one of the most essential materials in modern technology, construction, and manufacturing.
By TREYTON SCOTT11 days ago in BookClub
Small Print
I don’t care much for alarmist claims, especially when they concern the right and wrong ways to enjoy culture, but it’s hard to deny a shift hasn’t occurred. The “Post-Literate” world seems to be one where text, as a source of information and entertainment, has been overtaken by audiovisual media; podcasts, videos, streams, VoD, and TikToks.
By Conor Matthews12 days ago in BookClub
Unhinged Healing - Raw Poetry For The Abused
The book that was never meant to be. In a moment of discontentment and boredom, I began to gather my poetry that was scattered across writing platforms, old journals, and forgotten documents on my Google Drive to bring some sort of organization to my writing portfolio. I realized I had a lot more poems than I thought I did. It was a joke at first. I said to my family, "Man. I didn't realize I had this many poems written. I could make a book of them." When my husband suggested actually making a poetry book to add to my portfolio with them, I almost automatically responded with: "Because I am no Poe or Emily Dickinson. No one wants to read my trash poems."
By Hope Martin17 days ago in BookClub
Michael Croslin
By LEAVIE SCOTT In the mid‑1970s, when hospital corridors thrummed with the hum of ventilators and rolling carts, and when the rhythm of care still leaned heavily on the instincts of nurses and physicians, a quiet revolution began to take shape at the bedside. It did not arrive with the drama of a breakthrough surgery or a headline‑grabbing drug. Instead, it came in the form of a compact, box‑shaped instrument that sat unobtrusively beside patients, its small display flickering with numbers that would soon alter the course of modern medical practice.
By TREYTON SCOTT18 days ago in BookClub
