Shadow and Bone Clip Teases New Alliance for Season 2
Netflix has released a new clip from Shadow and Bone season 2 that shows Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) following the advice she got in season 1 to find new allies. The clip shows Alina attempting to find an ally in Nikolai (Patrick Gibson), despite his reservations and concerns that Alina was a “co-conspirator” in the Darkling’s attempts to extend the Shadow Fold. Shadow and Bone season 2 is out on Netflix on March 16.
Students Push Back Against Book Bans as the Scope of a New Florida Law Expands
At a recent Pinellas County School Board meeting, students, parents and teachers gathered to protest the removal of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye from high schools following a parent’s complaint. “While I do acknowledge that specific content in The Bluest Eye can be uncomfortable and difficult to read, it is for this exact reason I believe it is valuable to be analyzed in the classroom setting, even though others may not want to read this in public,” Prisha Sherdiwala, a student at Palm Harbor University High School, told the board. “As young humans, some of us who will be adults in less than a year, we are capable of engaging with these challenging ideas.”
Haruki Murakami Publishing His First Novel in Six Years
Haruki Murakami is publishing a new novel on April 13. It will be the author’s first novel since 2017’s Killing Commendatore. The novel, entitled The City and Its Uncertain Walls, will be 1,200 pages long and is set in a “soul-stirring, 100% pure Murakami world” that involves “a story that had long been sealed.” A teaser reached by the publisher reads, “Must go to the city. No matter what happens. A locked up ‘story’ starts to move quietly as if ‘old dreams’ are woken up and unravelled in a secluded archive.” Unfortunately, the April 13 release date is only for the Japanese version of the novel. No announcements have been made for translation release dates, but for English-speaking readers, hopefully there will be news soon.
11 Harrowing New Horror Books to Read in March
Monsters, vampires, ghosts, and other horrifying haunts aplenty! There’s that and more in this month’s new horror releases.