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Oh, hey, would you look at that—it’s Thursday again! That means it’s time to receive more bookish goodness in your inbox! I have traveled alllllllll the way to the last page of the Internet to find you some exciting adaptation news, cover reveals, and book talk. Plus I’ve included a picture of my little orange monsters, 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! Which writer had a well-publicized “Ten Rules of Writing” that included “Never open a book with weather” and “Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip?” (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
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Oona Out of Order is getting the adaptation treatment.
Holly Black’s Curse Workers trilogy is being released in one special edition.
Here’s the cover reveal of Zoraida Córdova’s The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina.
Here’s the first look at Danny Trejo’s upcoming memoir, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, And Hollywood.
Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty is going to be a series.
Andrea Beaty announced Aaron Slater, Illustrator.
Flight attendant’s first thriller is at the center of a bidding war.
Miramax has optioned a short story from Alice Munro.
Here’s a peek at the first chapter of Leigh Bardugo’s Rule of Wolves.
A Wizard of Oz remake is in the works.
Rob Delaney and Alice Eve have joined the adaptation of The Power.
HBO Max is creating a series based on Leslie Lehr’s memoir A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me—and You.
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:
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin (Little, Brown and Company, June 1)
In this upcoming debut novel, a Chinese American assassin is on a mission to find the men who kidnapped his wife and exact his revenge.
I love a Western, and I love a revenge story, but it’s really this endorsement from Jonathan Lethem that sold me on this book: ““In Tom Lin’s novel, the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy’s West, or that of the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney’s The Circus of Dr. Lao, and Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love.” I mean. How can I resist? I can hear someone mention Geek Love from a mile away, like sharks sense blood in the water. Someone give me this book now, please and thank you.
What I’m reading this week.
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Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
The Seven Doors by Agnes Ravatn, Rosie Hedger (translator)
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
Song stuck in my head:
Leave Me Alone by New Order. (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:
Very important koala information.
Happy things:
Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:
- Superstore. Mateo is my new favorite character crush. I’m almost finished all the seasons and I think I’ll watch Modern Family next.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Okay, so this is in no way a happy thing, but it’s just what I need playing in the background while I do jigsaw puzzles. I have now made it to the middle of season five and I am still into it. After watching so much Murder She Wrote recently, I’m enjoying the crimes coming to them, not just happening everywhere they go.
- Jigsaw puzzles! I have moved on to two-in-one puzzles, where you have to separate the pieces to make two entirely different puzzles.
- Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.
And here’s a cat picture!
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Chillin’.
Trivia answer: Elmore Leonard.
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L