Do you feel that? *shudders* It’s Monday. That’s okay, because I have lots of fun stuff to share with you today! We’ll get through it together. I had a delightful weekend full of reading and kittens. I hope that your weekend was equally as swell, and that you all managed to read something wonderful. Have a great week, and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty
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Here’s this week’s trivia question: Which author was the first black woman to become a cable car conductor in San Francisco? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
Space Opera by Cat Valente is getting a sequel. (Space Operb?) (I’ll show myself out.)
A Day of the Dead LGBTQ* paranormal romance is on the way from Aiden Thomas.
Chuck Wendig’s upcoming novel, Wanderers, will be adapted for television.
Brandy Colbert announced her upcoming YA novel.
Also coming to television: Lie To Me by J.T. Ellison.
Maya Angelou’s life and works are being developed for Broadway.
Women Talking by Miriam Toews will be a film with Frances McDormand.
Kumail Nanjiani in talks to join Angelina Jolie in Marvel’s The Eternals.
Mackenzi Lee’s novella, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky, will be published in November.
Netflix announced some of the cast of its adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, which includes John Cho.
Holland Taylor, Madeleine Arthur, and Sarayu Blue have joined the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before sequel.
Marlon James and George R.R. Martin will talk about fantasy literature and you can watch.
Amy Adams will star in Hillbilly Elegy for Netflix.
And Netflix plans to adapt Ruth Reichl’s memoir Comfort Me With Apples into a television series.
TV’s original Nancy Drew, Pamela Sue Martin, has been cast in the CW pilot adaptation.
Timothy Simons & Ron Cephas Jones have joined Hulu’s adaptation of Looking for Alaska by John Green.
And Apple’s adaptation of William Landay’s Defending Jacob has several new cast members. (I loved this book.)
Cover Reveals
Caitlin Doughy shared the cover of her new book, which has the greatest title ever: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? (W. W. Norton & Company, September 10)
TaraShea Nesbit shared the cover of her second novel: Beheld. (March 2020)
Here’s the first peek at the cover for Baking with Kim-Joy: Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile by Kim-Joy. (Quadrille Publishing, September 3)
Sneak Peaks
Here’s the first look at AMC’s adaptation of Joe Hill’s NOS4A2.
Here’s the trailer for the Netflix movie about Ted Bundy with Zac Efron, adapted from The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall. (I wasn’t planning on watching the film but then I found out James Hetfield, the lead singer of Metallica, is in it.)
And here’s the trailer for Trial By Fire with Laura Dern, based on the New Yorker essay by David Grann.
Book Riot Recommends
At Book Riot, I work on the New Books! email, the All the Books! podcast about new releases, and the Book Riot Insiders New Release Index. I am very fortunate to get to read a lot of upcoming titles, and learn about a lot of upcoming titles, and I’m delighted to share a couple with you each week so you can add them to your TBR! (It will now be books I loved on Mondays and books I’m excited to read on Thursdays. YAY, BOOKS!)
Loved, loved, loved:
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia (HMH Books, October 8)
Ohhhhhhhh, I am so delgihted with this book! Do you want to recapture the feeling of reading The Westing Game or Agatha Christie novels for the first time? Then read this book. Well, when it comes out. (In the meantime, you can read Bellwether Rhapsody, which will do the trick.) I loved reading Tuesday Mooney. It’s a spooky, charming scavenger hunt, kind of like a ghostly reality show, but better because you don’t have to look at anyone. Reading this made me feel like I was a kid again watching Mr. Boogedy, just absolutely thrilled and tickled pink.
What I’m reading this week:
The Rage of Dragons (The Burning) by Evan Winter
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
Pun of the week:
What would bears be without bees? Ears.
Here’s a kitten picture: Book model.
And this is funny.
That’s one angry lizard.
Trivia answer: Maya Angelou.
You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L