Third U.S. Romance Bookstore To Open In April 2022 In San Diego County
The Meet Cute Romance Bookshop and Fizzery is coming to La Mesa, CA in April 2022! Owner Becca Title describes the shop as a destination for romance book lovers and hopes it’ll also serve as a cute bookish date spot. In addition to peddling romance novels of all types, she’ll also serve fountain soda style drinks and snacks from local businesses, and she hopes the shop will be a destination for many more meet cutes to come.
Amanda Gorman Writes End-Of-Year Poem, ‘New Day’s Lyric’
In case you missed it, poet Amanda Gorman has written a poem for the end of the year called “New Day’s Lyric.” She shared the poem via a video on her Instagram account. Gorman received international acclaim in early 2021 when she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at Joe Biden’s inauguration. Her collection Call Us What We Carry is out now.
Untrained Blind Student Lands Starring Role In Netflix Second World War Epic
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr was perhaps one of the biggest books of 2014, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. In an industry where able bodied actors tend to be cast in the roles of disabled characters, disability rights advocates are thrilled that Netflix has cast Aria Mia Loberti, who is blind, in the role of Marie-Laure, the blind protagonist of the story. Loberti is a PhD student who auditioned when she heard about the worldwide casting call, and she said that she is “more lucky and humbled and grateful than I can express” for this opportunity.