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Happy Thursday, readers! I am getting super-excited in anticipation of next Tuesday, which is an ENORMOUS day for new releases. You’re going to flip your lid when you see all the excellent new titles! You may want to just take the whole week off now, as a precaution, so your brainpan doesn’t overheat.
In the meantime, it’s time to enjoy some exciting adaptation news, cover reveals, SO many awards, and book talk. Plus a picture of my little puzzle snatchers, some trivia, and more! Whatever you are doing or watching or reading this week, I hope you good bob and we same place again very now. – xoxo, Liberty, Your Friendly Neighborhood Velocireader™
Trivia question time! Who created the character of amateur detective Father Brown? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
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HBO is developing an adaptation of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s memoir The Fact Of A Body.
Tarana Burke and Brené Brown have co-edited a book together and it’s coming in April.
Here’s the cover reveal for A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske. (I heart this book.)
Jodie Turner-Smith will star in the Witcher prequel: The Witcher: Blood Origin.
Alyssa Milano will star in the Netflix adaptation of Brazen Virtue by Nora Roberts—and Roberts doesn’t care if the haters won’t watch it.
Here’s the cover reveal for You Can Go Your Own Way by former Book Rioter Eric Smith!
Spotify is testing adding audiobooks, starting with classic novels.
And speaking of audiobooks, a star-studded cast will narrate Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.
Joel Fry will join Sarah Snook in the most recent adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
A Great Gatsby television series is in the works.
Here are the 2020 National Jewish Book Award winners.
The American Library Association announced the 2021 Youth Media Awards.
The Mystery Writers of America announced the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations.
And the National Book Critics Circle announced its 30 finalists in six categories for the best books of 2020.
Amy Adams and A24 will develop Anna North’s novel Outlawed for television.
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:
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith (Random House, July 6, 2021)
I was excited to read this book from the very first sentence of its description: “Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this kaleidoscopic novel set in Vietnam spins half a century of history and folklore into the story of a missing woman.” PUZZLES AND REVENGE AND GHOSTS, OH MY.
It’s set in three different years and each focuses on a different event: an incident at a rubber plantation, a two-headed cobra, and a missing American in Saigon. There is a young woman at the center of each of these stories and over the course of the book, their narratives become interlocked. Eeeeee, I am even more excited to read it just writing about it. Someone get me this book, stat!
What I’m reading this week.
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A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem by Manda Collins
When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen
Let’s Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale
The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Song stuck in my head:
Halfway Home by TV on the Radio. (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:
Cats need to have Zoom meetings too.
Happy things:
Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:
- Superstore. I feel like I am running out of half-hour comedies that I can tolerate. This one isn’t too bad.
- Jigsaw puzzles! I have moved on to two-in-one puzzles, where you have to separate the pieces to make two entirely different puzzles.
- Numberzilla.
- Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.
And here’s a cat picture!
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These two sit like this when I do puzzles, just waiting for the moment I look away so they can eat the pieces.
Trivia answer: G.K. Chesterton.
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L