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Happy Thursday, book lovers. I hope you’re all having a decent week and have a lot of good things to read. I am hip-deep in the new 700-page Led Zeppelin biography, which makes me happy, and I also discovered a new season of Nailed It!, so it was like a bonus happy surprise! I also recently heard that there’s a new season of The Great Pottery Throw Down just around the corner. Hooray for gentle television!
Moving on to today’s newsletter: I have exciting adaptation news and book talk, plus I’ve included a picture of one of my ridiculous 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. I’ll see you again on Monday. – xoxo, Liberty, Your Friendly Neighborhood Velocireader™
Trivia question time! In The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, what costume is worn by the enigmatic figure that offers Aiden advice and guidance? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
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The full Shadow and Bone trailer has dropped.
Tiffany D. Jackson announced her new YA novel, White Smoke, which is releasing in September.
Randall Park will make his directorial debut with an adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel Shortcomings.
Game of Thrones is headed to Broadway.
The International Booker Prize has announced its 2021 longlist.
Ken Follett’s The Evening And The Morning is being developed as a show.
Here’s the first trailer for The Irregulars on Netflix.
Amanda Seyfried is replacing Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Holmes in the limited Hulu series.
Of Women and Salt is the GMA April 2021 Book Club pick.
Here’s the cover reveal of Dragonblood Ring by Amparo Ortiz.
A Court of Thorns and Roses is going to be a Hulu series.
American Gods has been canceled after three seasons, but it may return as a TV movie.
Here’s the cover reveal of Dear Diaspora (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry) by Susan Nguyen.
The adaptation of Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class from Lee Daniels and Karen Gist has been ordered to 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:
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, September 7)
I am really excited about this sequel, but also mentioning it here to bring your attention to the first book. Because it’s so much fun and I think more people need to know about it! The first book is called The Inheritance Games and it’s available now. It’s about a high school student named Avery Grambs, who doesn’t foresee anything remarkable happening in her future—and then she finds out that billionaire Tobias Hawthorne has died and left her his fortune. And Avery is like “Tobias who? Inheritance what now?”
Because, you see, Avery has never met Tobias Hawthorne, so she has no idea why he’d leave her everything. HIs family has never heard of Avery, and they are Not Pleased™ that the fortune they assumed was theirs is going to a stranger. And there’s a catch (there’s always a catch): Avery must move into the Hawthorne mansion with the Hawthorne family in order to collect the money. Avery agrees to this, because billions, but the Hawthorne family sees this as an opportunity to solve Avery like she’s a puzzle. They think that maybe she’s just another puzzle that game-loving Tobias Hawthorne has left for them to solve.
This book is a delight! If you love The Westing Game, like I do (but not as much as I do, because no one else can love it that much, I will fight you) then The Inheritance Games is a perfect read for you, and you should marl this second one down now.
What I’m reading this week.
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The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
The Collective by Alison Gaylin
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Because of You by Dawn French
Moon and the Mars by Kia Corthron
Song stuck in my head:
Song for Zola by Phosphorescent. This was the last song of the very last episode of Superstore. Goodbye, Superstore. You were only funny once in a while, but you had a great soundtrack. (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:
I laughed at this for a long time.
Happy things:
Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:
- Nailed It! The fifth season of this baking competition show is up on Netflix now and I can feel my blood pressure dropping just writing about it.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil: My love of all things Alan Tudyk right now has led me to another rewatch of this fabulous cartoon.
- 3rd Rock from the Sun: This show is dumb and certainly problematic at times, like most old shows, but it is just the right of mindless silly my brain needs right now. I’m not big on reality these days. And everyone in it is fantastic. It’s streaming for free on Peacock. Also, I still want Harry’s coat.
- Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.
And here’s a cat picture!
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Same, tbh.
Trivia answer: A plague doctor.
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L