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Happy Monday, book nerds! I hope your weekends were grand and full of lots of reading. I spent all Sunday afternoon parked in front of the AC because it was one of those days in Michigan. But I got loads of reading in, both in print and on audio, so no complaints from me!
I’ve got some really exciting bookish news for you this week, so let’s dive in, shall we?
Trivia time: What was the original title of Fahrenheit 451?
Deals and Squeals:
Calling all Paper Girls fans! Amazon just greenlit a TV adaptation of the series, which is about a bunch of 1980s middle school girls with a paper route who find themselves caught up in a weird time traveling battle. The comic series is excellent, and I think this TV adaptation will appeal to Stranger Things fans while also being totally different!
Jason Reynolds has an adult novel in the works! Scribner will publish The Mouthless God and Jesus Number Two in 2022!
Magpie Murders is coming to PBS Masterpiece! Based off the novel by Anthony Horowitz, it’s set to be a six-part series, but no word on when it’ll air. Horowitz adapted it for TV.
HBO’s reboot of Perry Mason has been so successful (it was the most popular premiere in two years!) that a second season has already been ordered. The series is based off of the books by Erle Stanley Gardner.
If you love SFF, and you’re a parent, then you might be keen to know about Don’t Touch That!, a sci-fi/fantasy anthology project that just launched on Kickstarter! If successfully funded, we’ll get humorous short SFF stories about the perils of parenting from Aliette de Bodard, Mark Oshiro, Valerie Valdes, and more.
Elisabeth Moss will star in the AppleTV adaptation of The Shining Girls, which is about a woman who survives a brutal attack only to discover her attacker is a time traveling serial killer.
HBO is bringing the stage adaptation of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates to screens! The special will include readings from Coates and documentary footage, as well as animation.
Riot Recommendations
At Book Riot, I am a cohost with Liberty on All the Books!, plus I write a handful of newsletters including the weekly Read This Book newsletter, cohost the Insiders Read Harder podcast, and write content for the site. I’m always drowning in books, so here’s what’s on my radar this week!
Book Recommendation: Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby
I was really excited to hear about this new release a few weeks back, and even more eager when Jamie, who writes our Unusual Suspects newsletter, gave it two thumbs up. I inhaled the audiobook over the weekend! This is the story of Beauregard, aka Bug, who lives in the rural south and has been proudly working as a mechanic, with his own garage to his name. He’s a family man with a past, and when he finds himself short on money with bills to pay in every direction, he gets sucked into driving the getaway car for one last job–except, for people like him, it’s never just one last job. And when the heist is successful, but with unexpected fallout, Bug will have to use all his wits to come out unscathed, and protect his family. This is a suspenseful and deeply compelling novel about people pushed to their limits, and a fantastic new addition to the Southern Noir genre.
What I’m reading this week:
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
Trivia Answer: The original working title was The Fireman!
I’ll leave you with a photo of my dog, Scout, who is often very concerned when she’s left out of anything, whether it’s a walk out to the mailbox or shutting the door on her so I can record a Book Riot podcast. Here she is outside the office door, feeling so left out she brought two toys up from downstairs to keep her company!
Happy reading!
Tirzah