Checking Out Book Reviews
Checking Out: ‘Fire Season’
By Hannah Evans The phrase “fire season” is increasingly one on the minds of those living in western states— every summer the time it describes seems to last longer and pose more of a threat […]
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Checking Out: ‘Woman of Light’
By Hannah Evans In The Denver North Star’s first issue, I reviewed Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story collection “Sabrina & Corina,” a beautiful selection of fiction featuring vibrant female characters and their ties and relationships to […]
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Checking Out: The Patron Saint of Second Chances
Signor Speranza’s tiny Italian village of 212 people, Prometto, is in serious trouble, and only this vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor can save it. In Christine Simon’s lighthearted new novel, “The Patron Saint of Second […]
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Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Sasha LaPointe, writer, poet, singer, and artist from the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest, is many things. As she states in her new memoir, “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of […]
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Checking Out: Our National Forests: Stories From America’s Most Important Public Lands
We are fortunate in Colorado to host four beautiful national parks—Rocky Mountain, Mesa Verde, Great Sand Dunes, and Black Canyon of the Gunnison—all of which receive a significant amount of admiration and use. Our state […]