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Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is being made into a film.

The Flight Attendant has been renewed for a second season.

Roxane Gay is starting a book club in 2021.

Netflix settled the Enola Holmes lawsuit with the Conan Doyle estate.

Keith Powers will join Gabrielle Union in the romantic comedy The Perfect Find, based on the book of the same name by Tia S. Williams.

PEN America announced the longlists for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards.

Melissa de la Cruz’s The Thirteenth Fairy is being developed for television.

Here are 25 book-to-movie adaptations to look for in 2021.

Here’s the cover reveal of A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell.

His Dark Materials has been renewed for a third and final season at HBO.

Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso will star in Paul Feig’s The School For Good and Evil adaptation.

Blumhouse Productions is planning an Exorcist sequel.

Netflix’s The Witcher series’ official Twitter account has just revealed the new logo for their upcoming Witcher anime spin-off film Nightmare of the Wolf.

And speaking of Netflix, they just signed Locke & Key up for two more seasons.

Bassem Youssef is developing The Magical Reality Of Nadia as an animated series.

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!)

Excited to read:

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, September 14, 2021)

If you have been following Book Riot for a while, you know that I am a HUGE fan of Colson Whitehead’s work. And have had several embarrassing moments when I am at his events. (Tooth knocked out, soda in my hair, etc.) But I would let someone knock out another tooth to get my hands on his latest novel! (But I would prefer not to.)

This one is about a Black salesman named Ray Carney in NYC in the 1960s, who has worked hard to make a decent life for his wife and children. But when they fall on hard times, he seeks help from his relatives, a group of small-time grifters and petty thieves whose existence he has kept hidden as an adult.

I love everything about this book already! Please, Santa, put it under my tree. (Okay, I don’t actually have a tree, because of the two destructive orange goats who live with me, but you know what I mean.)

What I’m reading this week.

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #1) by Mia P. Manansala

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (translator)

The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

Song stuck in my head:

Kill of the Night by Gin Wigmore. I first heard this on the Umbrella Academy soundtrack. I have still not seen the show, but if it is half as good as its soundtrack, it must be amazing. (Also, I’m still really into listening to songs I loved when I was young. You can listen to a lot of them in this playlist I made!)

And this is funny:

THE CUTE, IT BURNS.

Happy things:

Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:

Shudder, the streaming service for horror, thriller, and suspense genres. I treated myself to a subscription this week as my Christmas present and it’s already amazing.
Jigsaw puzzles!
Numberzilla.
Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.

And here’s a cat picture!

“We wrestled this creature off your desk and broke its spine!” – Zevon and Farrokh

Trivia answer: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L