RABBIT, RABBIT! It’s the first day of July – how bananas is that??? The year is halfway over! It’s like I blink and it’s a month later. Which may have something to do with always having my nose in a book lol. We are in peak summer season for books, which means not as much news, but I have a little bit of fun stuff for you today. Because of the holiday, I will be off on Thursday, but I’ll sure as heck see you next Monday! Enjoy the rest of your week, have a Happy 4th, and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty
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Here’s Monday’s trivia question: What author went to school with actor Doug Bradley, who later played the author’s most famous character in the films? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reels, and Squeals!
Colson Whitehead mentioned his next project after The Nickel Boys in his cover interview for Time magazine.
We have such sights to show you: Hellraiser is getting a television series.
Melissa McCarthy is in talks to play Ursula in a live-action Little Mermaid.
Fiona Shaw joins Millie Bobby Brown in the adaptation of the Enola Holmes books by Nancy Springer.
Cover Reveals
Here’s the cover of The Deep by Alma Katsu! (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, March 10, 2020)
Here’s the amazing cover of And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges by Amber Sparks. (Liveright, February 11, 2020)
And the first look at The Illness Lesson: A Novel by Clare Beams. (Doubleday, February 11, 2020)
Here’s the first look at The Red Lotus, the upcoming novel from Chris Bohjalian. (Doubleday, March 17, 2020)
And here’s the first look at This Vicious Cure by Emily Suvada. (Simon Pulse, January 21, 2020)
And ohmygoodness, it’s the reveal of a book called Ronan the Librarian. (Roaring Brook Press, April 21, 2020)
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:
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (Grand Central Publishing, November 5)
Cahalan takes a close look at the mental health industry, something that interested her after nearly being put into a psychiatric unit herself, before her disease was discovered. (Which you can read about in the wonderful Brain on Fire.) She covers the history of institutions; the horrific conditions of such places past and present; Nellie Bly’s famous ten days on Blackwell’s Island; and the experiment that brought the lack of understanding of mental illnesses to light despite the widespread treatment of them. How do patients get diagnosed when every mental illness has so many different – and sometimes overlapping – symptoms? Why is mental illness not treated like a physical disease, when it it located in the brain, a physical object in the body? I have never been more interested in the brain than I have been since this winter, when I experienced the effects of a long bout of sleep depravation first hand. (Most of which I don’t even remember, which freaks me out!) I found this book fascinating, and I am sure this is going to be another big book for Cahalan! (Also, you should totally read Bly’s book while you wait for this one.)
What I’m reading this week:
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
In at the Deep End by Kate Davies
Akin by Emma Donoghue
Pun of the week:
Just burned 2,000 calories. That’s the last time I leave brownies in the oven while I nap.
Here’s a kitten picture:
My (no longer) little orange gorillas.
And this is funny.
The struggle is real.
Trivia answer: Clive Barker.
You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L