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Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But as the plane takes off, Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger: “The following instructions will save your daughter’s life…” When one passenger is killed and then another, Mina knows she must act. But which lives does she save: Her passengers…or her own daughter and husband who are in grave distress back at home? It’s twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.
Good morning/afternoon/evening, my bookish pals! It is time for me to once more grace your screens with lots of words about books. I had a chance the other day to read a book that wasn’t needed for work, and I had so many choices that it took me almost an hour to decide, lol. Does that ever happen to you? Every time I thought I had made my decision, all the other choices seemed like a better idea. I finally settled on the sequel to The Goblin Emperor, and it was a great choice!
Moving on to today’s newsletter and book talk: I am excited about a lot of today’s shiny news, including adaptation deals, book cover reveals, and a look at Victoria Schwab’s upcoming YA novel. Plus I’ve included a picture of my stretchy orange monster, some trivia, and more! I love writing these newsletters and I appreciate your support so much. 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 Thursday (because of the holiday). – xoxo, Liberty, Your Friendly Neighborhood Velocireader™
Trivia question time! What new novel features Klara, an Artificial Friend? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
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Will Smith is releasing a memoir in November.
Rachel Zegler will play Snow White in Disney’s live-action adaptation.
Nicholas Braun and Emilia Jones will star in Cat Person, based on the New Yorker story.
John Cho is releasing Troublemaker, a middle grade novel.
A Frankenstein television series adaptation is in the works.
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup is going to be a Netflix series.
Here’s the cover reveal of Melissa Febos’s craft-book-meets-memoir, Body Work.
Here’s a new teaser for the upcoming season of Dexter.
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Somewhere Only We Know by Maureen Goo is getting a series adaptation.
Here’s the cover reveal for One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig.
Netflix released a Geralt teaser for the new season of The Witcher.
Jack Huston signed on for the new Count of Monte Cristo adaptation.
Liv Tyler has optioned the movie rights to Lucca by Danish author Jens Christian Grondahl.
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:
Gallant by Victoria Schwab (Greenwillow Books, March 1, 2022)
Yesterday, the cover was revealed for Victoria Schwab’s upcoming standalone YA novel and wowwwwww. IT’S SO PRETTY. It’s being billed as “The Secret Garden meets Crimson Peak.” *Chandler Bing voice* Could I be anymore excited?
I am a big fan of Victoria/V.E Schwab, everything she writes, including most recently The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and the City of Ghosts trilogy. So I am really looking forward to pushing this one directly into my brain as soon as I can. According to the post in EW yesterday, Gallant is about a young woman named Olivia who has grown up away from Gallant, her family home, with only her mother’s mildly disturbing journal to remind her where she comes from. When Olivia is invited to return home to Gallant, she is greeted by her hostile cousin, Matthew, but she is determined to learn as much as she can about the house and her family. Which leads to her discovering a secret world of ghouls that might also hold the clues to the identity of her father. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.
Crumbling mansions, long-kept secrets, unfriendly cousins—this sounds like a dream come true for We Have Always Lived in the Castle fans! If anyone can write a book that is a good comp for Jackson, it’s Schwab. I can’t wait to read it!
What I’m reading this week.
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Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin by C. M. Kushins
Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
Objects of Desire: Stories by Clare Sestanovich
Song stuck in my head:
Locked Out by Crowded House. Wow, did I used to listed to the Reality Bites soundtrack a lot. (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:
Happy things:
Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:
- Rutherford Falls: I thought this show was really charming! (It does require a Peacock subscription, though.)
- Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.
And here’s a cat picture!
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Zevon is his own hammock.
Trivia answer: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L