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What if your roommate is your soulmate? A joyful, quirky romantic comedy, Beth O’Leary’s The Flatshare is a feel-good novel about finding love in the most unexpected of ways. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Desperation makes her open-minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night-shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. In fact, they’ll never even have to meet. Tiffy and Leon start writing each other notes. Even though they are opposites, they soon become friends. And then maybe more.
Happy Thursday, my little book fiends. I hope your reading in 2021 is off to a great start! I have certainly found a million things I hope to read this year, including a book described as “Golden Girls meets The Expanse with a side of Babylon Five.” Um, yes please. Now I totally want a Golden Girls in space special television event. “Picture it: Jupiter, 2216.”
For today, I have exciting adaptation news, cover reveals, and book talk for you. Plus a picture of a boneless cat! Whatever you are celebrating or doing or watching or reading this week, I am sending you love and hugs. – xoxo, Liberty, Your Friendly Neighborhood Velocireader™
Trivia question time! Which of these ingredients does not appear in the Witches’s “Double, double toil and trouble” speech from Macbeth: eye of newt, lizard’s leg, tongue of dog, or wing of bat? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
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Lashana Lynch will play Miss Honey in Netflix’s Matilda remake.
Lil Nas X has a children’s book out now.
Here’s the first look at Bethany Morrow’s retelling of Little Women.
Duchess Camilla is starting her own book club.
Tordotcom Publishing announced a five-book deal with Andrea Hairston.
Bridgerton delivered Netflix a record-breaking December.
Clancy Brown will be the main villain in the Dexter revival.
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:
Wayward by Dana Spiotta (Knopf, July 6, 2021)
Dana Spiotta is one of those authors who doesn’t release a lot of books, but her work is so amazing that you sit up and take notice when she has a new one coming out. I am a big fan of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document, and I cannot wait to sink my teeth into this one.
From the publisher’s description, it sounds like it’s about a woman, who is dealing with life as a middle-aged woman as well as new problems with her teenage daughter, and on a whim buys a house in a new town and flees her life and family. Whatever the story, I bet it will be amazing. She writes really amazing, realistic characters!
What I’m reading this week.
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An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep by Andrew Kelly Stewart
Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Song stuck in my head:
Down with the Sickness by Disturbed. I’ve had it stuck in my head since I watched S6 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Mostly because it’s fun to make the monkey noise. And ready to feel old? This album came out 20 years ago. (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:
“What’s in the fridge?” “Jin and juice.”
Happy things:
Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:
- The Perry Mason reboot. But WHOA is it violent and gruesome. Not for the faint of heart.
- The Good Place: I rewatched the whole series last week and this hilarious, weird, heartsqueezing show was exactly the balm I needed for my soul.
- Jigsaw puzzles! Still on a HUGE puzzle kick. Several of you have asked how I do puzzles with destructive felines in the house, and the answer is: very carefully. I only do 500-piece puzzles, because I cannot leave them unattended or the cats will destroy them. So once I start a puzzle, I am committed to finishing it.
- Numberzilla.
- Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.
And here’s a cat picture!
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Sure, that looks comfy.
Trivia answer: Wing of bat.
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L