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    Tag: books

    Shared spaces, happy places

    Arts & Entertainment, Books, Campus Community, Campus Events, Campus Service, Clubs/Organizations, Entertainment, Features, Mywebermedia Slider, News, Ogden Community/Events, Signpost Slider

    Many faculty and staff members gathered for the first time in several years at the Timbermine Steakhouse in Ogden to commemorate the 26th annual Weber State Storytelling Festival on March […]

    March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 by Tim Costello
    Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Books, Campus Community, Campus Events, Campus Service, Clubs/Organizations, Entertainment, Features, Mywebermedia Slider, News, Ogden Community/Events, Signpost SliderTagged books, Brad Mortensen, Campus, campus activities, dinner, festival, ogden, speakers, stories, story telling festival, Storytelling, Tim Costello, timbermine steakhouse, Weber State, WSU

    Twenty-six years of stories

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    The Storytelling Festival has been part of Weber State University history for the past 26 years. It originally occurred as a one-day event on across the lawns on campus in […]

    February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 by Tim Costello
    Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Campus Community, Campus Events, Mywebermedia Slider, News, Signpost SliderTagged books, Campus, campus activities, coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 cases rising, covid-19 influence, David Byrd, Eccles Conference Center, Eccles Theater, event, festival, Megaplex Theater, Paul Thompson, Peery's Egyptian Theater, stories, Story telling, story telling festival, Storytelling, storytelling festival, Tim Costello, virtual, Weber State, Weber State University, WSULeave a comment

    Bewildering book bans

    Books, Columns, Mobile, Mywebermedia Slider, Opinion

    A parent in the Canyons School District in Sandy, Utah, sent out an email in November requesting certain books be removed from school library shelves because of concerns about their […]

    January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 by Rebecca Gonzales
    Posted in Books, Columns, Mobile, Mywebermedia Slider, OpinionTagged American Library Association, Black Lives Matter, book banning, Book censorship, books, bookshelf, Canyons School District, conservative views, conservatives, Diversity, diversity and access, diversity and inclusion, First Amendment, Jeff Haney, Jonathan Evison, libraries, library, Megan Van Deventer, Rebecca Gonzales, Richard Price, school board meetings, The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, TikTok, U.S. history, utah, Weber State, Weber State UniversityLeave a comment

    Practically perfect plot holes

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    Halloween has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean murder mystery books aren’t in season still. Fall and winter are the perfect seasons to read murder mystery books, but you […]

    November 3, 2021November 3, 2021 by Breanna Hart
    Posted in Books, Columns, Entertainment, Mobile, Mywebermedia Slider, Opinion, ReviewTagged Blake Pierce, book review, books, books to read, Breanna Hart, Column, ghosts, halloween, haunted, Haunted House, Murder Mystery, murder mystery books, murders, opinion, opinion column, plot holes, ratings, reading, reviews, Ruth Ware, spooky, spooky season, The Turn of the KeyLeave a comment

    Mysteries of the murderous kind

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    One of my favorite things to do in the fall is read a murder mystery book. I love reading these books in any season, but for some reason they just […]

    October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 by Breanna Hart
    Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Books, Columns, Mobile, Mywebermedia Slider, Opinion, ReviewTagged A.J. Finn, autumn, Blake Pierce, book review, books, Breanna Hart, crime, crime books, fall, Fall 2021, fictional stories, halloween, literature, Murder, Murder Mystery, murder mystery books, mystery, october, opinion, opinion column, Peter Swanson, rating, rating books, Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, spooky, spooky season, storiesLeave a comment

    Take a look inside the book festival

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    In a world where technology dominates free time, the 24th Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival encourages their participants to unplug and soak up the benefits of literature. The festival kicked […]

    September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 by Raymond Lucas
    Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Books, Campus Events, Mywebermedia Slider, News, Ogden Community/Events, Signpost Slider, Utah, Writing/PoetryTagged Abraham Smith, April Jones Prince, author visits, authors, book clubs, book festival, books, community, connection, COVID, COVID-19, creative writing, Elizabeth Hall, English department, Forrest Gander, in-person events, interaction, Kase Johnstun, Kat Smith, Kathy Gambles, northern utah, ogden, Ogden Nature Center, pandemic, published authors, published writers, publishing, Raymond Lucas, reading, Rob Carney, St. Joseph Catholic High School, Sunni Wilkinson, Treehouse Museum, utah, Utah Humanities Book Festival, virtual events, visiting author, Weber, Weber Book Links, Weber County, weber county library, Weber State, Weber State University, writing, ZoomLeave a comment

    My plan is . . . that I have no plan

    Columns, Graduation, Mobile, Mywebermedia Slider, Opinion

    The amount of times I’ve attempted to write this column is thoroughly embarrassing. I’m not great at goodbyes — I suck at them. That’s what this column feels like: a […]

    April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 by Kierstynn King
    Posted in Columns, Graduation, Mobile, Mywebermedia Slider, OpinionTagged Andrew Zimmern, Anthony Bourdain, books, college, Column, disabilities, disability center, Graduate, graduate advice, graduate column, graduation, graduation 2021, graduation column, Journalism, Kierstynn King, love for books, Memories, no plan, opinion, opinion column, opinion piece, plans after graduation, Punk'd, school, spring 2021, spring 2021 graduates, The Signpost, travel, travel journalist, Weber, Weber State, Weber State University, writer, writers, writing, WSULeave a comment

    Poet laureate finds creativity in tragedy

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    “What is the power of art to represent some of the worst things that can happen to us?” Paisley Rekdal, a University of Utah english professor and esteemed poet, asked […]

    October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 by Tori Waltz
    Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Books, Campus Events, Entertainment, Features, Mobile, NewsTagged books, Paisley Rekdal, Poems, Poet Laureate, poetry, poetry readings, rape, Salt Lake City, sexual assault, Tori Waltz, University of Utah, Weber State UniversityLeave a comment

    Storytelling: Changing the world one brain at a time

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is perhaps one of the most important books in American history. Enraged by the injustices perpetrated against African American slaves and laws that […]

    November 9, 2017November 9, 2017 by Zac Watts
    Posted in Columns, Mobile, Mywebermedia Slider, Opinion, Science & Tech, Signpost SliderTagged Abraham Lincoln, books, brains, Civil War, Column, cortisol, empathy, English, fiction, Gardner, George Eliot, Gustav Freytag, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Keith Oatley, Neuroscience, nonfiction, opinion, oxytocin, Paul Zak, Storytelling, Tolstoy, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vonnegut, words, Zac WattsLeave a comment

    The world is a bookstore: National Undergrad Literature Conference

    Arts & Entertainment, Books

    Around 160 students from all across the U.S. and Canada came to showcase their work in the 32nd National Undergraduate Literature Conference, held annually at Weber State University, with an […]

    April 6, 2017April 6, 2017 by Jeweliette Cordero
    Posted in Arts & Entertainment, BooksTagged books, Bookstore, English department, English major, National Undergraduate Literature ConferenceLeave a comment

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