One Colorado author is opening a children's bookstore that is packed to the rafters with the work of self-published authors and features no spines, meaning that each book's cover is displayed prominently, giving each story the same chance to capture new readers.
On the worst days, there were still books.
When the Alzheimer’s diagnosis was new, Joni McCoy’s mother would devour her favorite romance novels by Nicholas Sparks. When her mother could no longer read on her own, McCoy took over, reading aloud the stories from the “Little House on the Prairie” series or “Pippy Longstocking.”
McCoy had never known her mother to go a day without reading. So she wasn’t going to let that change.
“We took it all the way to the end,” McCoy said.
The end came in October 2019, after six years of watching her mother’s mind and body slowly worsen.