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Ash knows all about his mother’s childhood fantasy world, Koretris, and how no men or boys are allowed. So when Ash and friends decide to try a spell to transport them to Koretris, Ash doesn’t think anything will happen. But the spell works, and Ash discovers that Koretris is actually a real place with real inhabitants and very real danger. But if Koretris is real, why is Ash there? Everyone has always called Ash a boy. Ash uses he/him pronouns. Shouldn’t the spell have kept Ash out? And what does it mean if it let Ash in?
Happy Thursday, kittens! Or should I say puppies—hooray for the release of the first Cruella trailer! I know people have mixed feelings about the casting, but I think it looks like super fun and I LOVE the costumes and aesthetics! I hope it’s as delicious as it looks.
On top of the Cruella trailer today, I have exciting adaptation news, cover reveals, and book talk. Plus I’ve included a picture of my gray goblin, 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! What is Jay Gatsby’s real name and where was he born? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
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Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas is getting her own YA novel.
Here’s the scoop on The Lincoln HIghway, the new novel from Amor Towles.
Here’s the first trailer for the Cruella movie starring Emma Stone. (Did you know 101 Dalmatians was written by Dodie Smith, who also wrote I Capture the Castle?
Alice Wong’s upcoming memoir has sold to Vintage.
Simone Ashley will star in the second season of Bridgerton.
Here’s the cover reveal of The Shaadi Set-Up by Lillie Vale.
Here’s the cover reveal of Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco.
Here are the winners of the 2021 Southern Book Prize.
And the Aspen Institute announced the five finalists for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize.
Here’s the first look at V.E. Schwab’s new superhero comic.
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You can check out the first excerpt from Anthony Bourdain’s posthumous guidebook.
Vincent Cassel, Eva Green and Oliver Jackson-Cohen will star in the new Three Musketeers movies.
Here’s the cover reveal for Battle Of The Bands edited by Lauren Gibaldi and Eric Smith.
Joe Alwyn, Jemima Kirke, Alison Oliver, and Sasha Lane have been cast in Hulu’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends.
Here’s more information about the True Blood reboot.
And more information on the upcoming season of Lovecraft Country.
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:
Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams (William Morrow, June 15)
If you ask me what my favorite thriller of the past five years is, I will answer so fast your head will spin: No Exit by Taylor Adams. I loooooved that book. It’s a locked-room thriller set in a rest stop visitor’s center during a blizzard. Five strangers who have been stranded by the storm are weathering (teehee) an evening together when one of them discovers a child locked in a van outside. Which means the kidnapper is one of her sleepover friends—but how do you figure out who is a dangerous criminal and still get through the night without alerting them to the fact that you know?
That book is like Die Hard in a rest stop. I still think about it often. So imagine my delight when I got my hands on a copy of the new book from Taylor Adams! It’s about a young woman who is on a quest to learn the truth about the death of her twin sister, which involves a dangerous, creepy bridge in Montana. Unfortunately, I don’t have time in my reading schedule for this until next week—sob!—but you bet I’ll be picking it up as soon as I can!
What I’m reading this week.
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Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh
Ten Low by Stark Holborn
Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
Dead Dead Girls (A Harlem Renaissance Mystery) by Nekesa Afia
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
Song stuck in my head:
Homegrown by Haux. (Thanks a lot, Superstore.) (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:
Silly stuff makes me laugh.
Happy things:
Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:
- Warehouse 13: All five seasons are streaming on Peacock! Of course, rewatching this is going to lead to a rewatch of The Librarians, for sure.
- Gravity Falls: It’s never enough, no, it’s never enough. Also: GRAPPLING HOOK.
- 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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Millay is in the hot spot.
Trivia answer: James Gatz and North Dakota.
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L