http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5Told through letters and telegrams and set in Guernsey just after WW2, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is for readers wanting a quick read with a hope of learning something new. It fulfills. But only minimally. The book is a lovely collaboration and family tribute. Author, M...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Fiction/Blog~623668.aspx6/5/2009 7:39:28 AMIrma Sturgell How many books have you read this year? Which ones? What were they about? What was your reaction? On a scale of one to ten, what did you rate your last read? These are the kinds of questions to ponder in a reading journal - a necessity for all readers. Those of us who are up past midnight read...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Writing/Blog~547440.aspx11/13/2008 7:49:46 AMIrma Sturgell It looks like Sen. Salazar is backing away from a commercial oil-shale moratorium suggesting instead that each state be allowed to decide the issue for themselves. On the surface this seems reasonable. But given the recent scandal between the oil industry and Department of Interior officials righ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Blog~523000.aspx9/18/2008 3:43:16 PMIrma Sturgell Hot off the DNC, Barack Obama and Joe Biden sat down with 60 Minutes' Steve Croft for one of their first TV interviews. On September 4, Obama was interviewed by conservative Bill O"Reilly, of The O'Reilly Factor. Obama has spoken with interviewers all along the political continuum. To me, this su...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~518654.aspx9/8/2008 9:56:01 PMIrma Sturgell We've all read Faulkner . Or at least we've read the Cliff notes in high school or college. And many of us suffered through just enough unguided exposure to know we didn't like him. His sentences are so long (the infamous 30 page sentence in The Bear ); his writing seems so random, we don't...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~402125.aspx12/8/2007 7:00:07 PMIrma Sturgell Instant messaging, instant cash, instant buying - all good, yes? Sometimes. Instant access might be the Trojan horse of modern life. The same online convenience that offers everything out there in cyberspace, and offers it instantly can also be the portal that invites savvy thieves into our lives...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Fiction/Blog~184098.aspx2/15/2007 8:29:58 PMIrma Sturgell Instant messaging, instant cash, instant buying - all good, yes? Sometimes. Instant access might be the Trojan horse of modern life. The same online convenience that offers everything out there in cyberspace, and offers it instantly can also be the portal that invites savvy thieves into our lives...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Fiction/Blog~184095.aspx2/15/2007 8:08:49 PMIrma Sturgell Knowing the outcome of a disaster doesn't mitigate the drama of the event. That drama lives in the details - the personal stories of those who survived, or didn't survive. That's what grips readers and won't let go as we begin to understand the true scope of a tragedy. It is what helps readers fe...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Nonfiction/Blog~164086.aspx12/23/2006 3:01:31 PMIrma Sturgell Winter is best time for reading. Now that we've had our first deep freeze and the snow cloaks our mountains, the fireside draws us towards the books we have gathered in warmer months. Like an autumn harvest, it is time to enjoy these literary jewels, and let them warm our souls on the long winte...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~157745.aspx12/5/2006 3:35:44 PMIrma Sturgell Winter is best time for reading. Now that we've had our first deep freeze and the snow frosts our mountains, the fireside draws us towards the books we have gathered in warmer months. Like an autumn harvest, these books beckon us. It is time to let them warm our souls through long winter nights. ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Fiction/Blog~157099.aspx12/4/2006 11:19:07 AMIrma Sturgell For serious book addicts, a love for the classics brings a desire to know more about the authors who wrote them. Perhaps it is nothing more than our celebrity driven culture manifesting itself as a need to know these authors up close and personal. This is challenging since many of them are long s...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~151712.aspx11/16/2006 7:53:10 PMIrma Sturgell Book addicts worry about running out of good reading material. They scan bestseller lists, read reviews and pile up books as insurance against a printer's strike. They also join book clubs and are sometimes members of several book clubs. I try to stick to one, but am often tempted to branch out i...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~148194.aspx11/8/2006 8:25:01 PMIrma Sturgell Whatever your reaction to Jane Fonda , it will be too bad if you skip her autobiography, "My Life so Far," because you think of her as Hanoi Jane, rather than a great actress or a woman of deep empathy, compassion and talent. The book isn't perfect, but then neither is the person. She admits h...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Nonfiction/Blog~143427.aspx10/27/2006 9:54:57 PMIrma Sturgell We know chronic "past midnight" readers can't get enough; enough time to read, enough material to read. Life simply interferes. Audio books have helped mitigate our pain so we can listen to tapes and cds in the car, on walks, even while vacuuming, shopping or cooking. But there is still the i...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Technology-The-Web/Technology/Blog~92007.aspx6/5/2006 8:49:46 PMIrma Sturgell It's unfortunate to read Dover Beach before going to work andeven worse to read it three times but that's what I did today andnow my throat closes trying to push down my tears so I won't run mymascara and have to do my makeup all over again and be late forwork! Blast Matthew Arnold. Such ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Poetry/Blog~78859.aspx4/26/2006 8:58:49 AMIrma Sturgell Memorable moms... hmm. That could mean a mom we want toremember or one we spend our lives trying to forget. Literaturegives us both. Here are few of my choices for memorable mom's infiction First up, Bunty, of George and Bunty in Kate Atkinson'sBehind the Scenes at the Museum. Ruby, w...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~76453.aspx4/18/2006 8:55:58 PMIrma Sturgell Memorable moms...hmm. That could mean a mom we want toremember or one we spend our lives trying to forget. Literaturegives us both. Here are few of my choices for memorable mom's infiction to keep you reading until Mother's Day. First up, Bunty, of George and Bunty in Kate Atkinson's,B...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Fiction/Blog~76448.aspx4/18/2006 8:28:40 PMIrma Sturgell Overheard at the purse counter in Nordstrom's on Saturday,April 15: Mom: "I'm 40 years old and have never spent $300.00, onanything for myself let alone a purse." Daughter: "But, I'll keep it forever. It's so cool." Mom: "Maybe so, but will you want it forever? You don't needto buy th...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Blog~75597.aspx4/16/2006 1:37:15 PMIrma Sturgell At a local bookstore gathering that brings readers andwriters together, an editor from Amistad referred to "Let the LionEat Straw," by Ellease Southerland, as "the perfect book." Shepassed out complimentary copies to us all and I dropped mine intothe bookbag with the others that publisher...http://denver.yourhub.com/Centennial/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~75474.aspx4/15/2006 9:26:38 PMIrma Sturgell