Author: Liberty Hardy

HBO is Ready for a Second Season of Big Little Lies and More News!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date November 10, 2017

Happy Monday, book lovers! As you read this, I am on my way to NYC for a week of book-related adventures. I hope to learn about a lot more exciting book news. I also have some spectacular things to share today. Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

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First Tuesday in November New Books Megalist!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date November 6, 2017

It’s another glorious new release day! It’s a good one! I feel like more and more, publishers are releasing great books closer to the holidays. It used to be a lot harder to find so many amazing books coming out in November and December. I’ve got a big list for you below, and you can hear about a few of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about amazing books we loved, such as Madonna in a Fur Coat, Buzz, and Bonfire.

Sponsored by The Sound Of Rain by Sarah Loudin Thomas

After a tragic mine accident in 1954, Judd Markley thought he had abandoned his Appalachian roots forever by moving to Myrtle Beach. Then he meets the privileged Larkin Heyward, who dreams of moving to Kentucky to help the poor of Appalachia. Drawn together amid a hurricane and swept away by their feelings, are their divergent dreams too great an obstacle to overcome? “Thomas is a master storyteller…The Sound of Rain is a novel readers won’t want to miss.”—RT Book Reviews

(And like last time, I’m putting a next to the books that I have read and loved. There are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)

bonfire Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

The Speaker (Sea of Ink and Gold) by Traci Chee

The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin

Written in Blood by Layton Green

Jade City by Fonda Lee

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Liars by Steven Gillis

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner

Nanoshock (SINless) by KC Alexander

All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault by James Alan Gardner

The Senator’s Children by Nicholas Montemarano

Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement by Carl Cederström and André Spicer

The Revolution of Marina M. by Janet Fitch

Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How “The Graduate” Became the Touchstone of a Generation by Beverly Gray

Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea by Nic Compton

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 12: The Getaway by Jeff Kinney

Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald

The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle

Valiant Dust (Breaker of Empires) by Richard Baker

Mrs. Osmond by John Banville

How Oscar Indigo Broke the Universe (And Put It Back Together Again) by David Teague

I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel by Deb Olin Unferth (Author), Elizabeth Haidle (Illustrator)

The House of Unexpected Sisters: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (18) by Alexander McCall Smith

Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris

Devil in Ohio by Daria Polatin

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (Author), Ureen Freely (Translator), Alexander Dawe (Translator)

This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada

Eight Days on Planet Earth by Cat Jordan

The Closest I’ve Come by Fred Aceves

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt

Numenera: The Night Clave by Monte Cook and Shanna Germain

Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries by Martha Collins (Author), Kevin Prufer (Author, Editor)

Here We Are Now by Jasmine Warga

Catalina: A Novel by Liska Jacobs

Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda

Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre

Someone You Love Is Gone by Gurjinder Basran

The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy by Hallie Lieberman

Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature by Marion Rankine

Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibben

This Book is Not For You by Daniel Hoyt

The Time of Mute Swans by Ece Temelkuran, Kenneth Dakan (Translator)

Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939 by Edgar Feuchtwanger (Author), Bertil Scali (Author), Adriana Hunter (Translator)

Retribution Rails by Erin Bowman

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse) by Jim C. Hines

That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or L itsy under ‘Liberty’!

Stay rad,

Liberty

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The Paper Bag Princess is Headed to the Big Screen and More Book News!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date November 3, 2017

Hello, November! and hello, book lovers! Have you finished all your candy?I have some delightful bookish goodness for you below. Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Elvis Fights Monsters, Killer Pets, and More New Books for Halloween!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 30, 2017

Happy Halloween, book lovers! NOW GIMME CANDY. I have a few spooky-ish books out today to tell you about, and you can hear about several more great books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including Beasts Made of Night, Everything is Awful, The Tea Dragon Society, and more.

Lin-Manuel Miranda Takes On Patrick Rothfuss and More News

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 27, 2017

Welcome to another Monday! What are you going to be for Halloween? Any spooky books in your future? Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Sponsored by The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay.

Falling into the past will change their futures forever.

When shy but clever engineer Mary Davies is invited by her estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer on a holiday in an English manor, she reluctantly agrees in hopes that the trip will shake up her quiet life. But Mary gets more than she bargained for when Isabel loses her memory and fully believes she lives in Jane Austen’s Bath.

The Little Paris Bookshop meets Sense & Sensibility with clever winks to all of Austen’s beloved novels — The Austen Escape is both a universally-relatable look at friendship and a winsome love letter to books.

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Showtime to develop Kingkiller Chronicle series from John Rogers, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Samira Ahmed has a new book coming in the fall of 2019!

The pilot of Sea Oak, the series based on the George Saunders story, will be released in November.

TREAT YO SELF: Retta is releasing a book!

And there’s a new one coming from Jenny Offill!

Issa Rae and Angela Flournoy are developing a show together!!!!

Regina King joins the cast of Barry Jenkins’ film adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.

Not one but TWO new books are on the way from Lauren Groff!

Jenni Konner and Lena Dunham to adapt E. Lockhart’s Genuine Fraud.

Pharrell and Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver teaming up for adaptation of horror thriller Survive the Night.

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man series adaptation in the works at Hulu.

Clea DuVall will play Alexis Bledel’s wife in season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Cover Reveals

Here’s the first look at Alexander Chee’s forthcoming essay collection! (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 24, 2018)

Book Riot has the first look at Aisha Saeed’s new book, Amal Unbound. (Nancy Paulsen Books, May 8, 2018)

Sneak peek at the modern-day Romeo and Juliet YA tale Always Never Yours. (Speak, May 22, 2018)

Sneak Peeks!

Here’s the first full trailer from Marvel’s Runaways!

Book Riot Recommends

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Harper Teen, March 6, 2018)

Like Brown Girl Dreaming and Long Way Down, this is a powerful young adult novel in verse, about a young poet who learns to channel her fears and frustrations into poetry in her notebooks. But when she is invited to join a poetry slam club at her school, she must decide whether she will go against her mother’s strict rules or pass on the opportunity. This book shines.

Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman (Del Rey, April 10, 2018): Okay, I know what you’re going to say: Why isn’t there a Bird Box sequel yet??? But Malerman has so many other great tricks up his sleeve! This one is a wild, Sleeping Beautiy-ish style western, about a woman named Carol with a condition that makes her fall into comas that give the appearance of her having died. She always recovers, until the day her greedy husband decides to have her declared dead. Now the only other person who knows Carol”s secret must come to her aid before she’s buried alive! SPOILER: This is not a good book for people with taphophobia.

And this is funny.

Maybe you shouldn’t play games with Adam Silvera.

New Books

A True American Hero, Joe Hill’s Latest, and More New Books

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 23, 2017

Hello, book lovers! Who’s reading something good this week? I read a bunch of rad things during the Dewey’s Readathon on Saturday, and have a bunch more stuff lined up for this week. I CANNOT GET ENOUGH. I have a few awesome books for you below and you can hear about several more great books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including Long Way Down, River of Consciousness, Ghosts of the Tsunami, and more.

Sponsored by Life Detonated by Kathleen Murray Moran

The gripping true story of Kathleen Murray, a young mother whose life was changed on September 11, 1976 when her husband, a NYPD bomb disposal expert, was killed by a terrorist’s bomb. It details her journey out of poverty, and her own determination to take care of her two young sons as she starts over.

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Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

What’s better than one new Joe Hill book? Four new Joe Hill books! Okay, they’re more like novellas, but still. Snapshot is about a spooky camera; nails fall from the sky in Rain; a parachute jumper is stranded in the sky in Aloft; and a security guard carries out an unfortunately increasingly common 21st century scene in Loaded. Each of these is a creepy, horrifying delight, sure to upset and surprise you.

The River of Consciousness bump: 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan

You may recognize Khan: He and his wife appeared at the DNC in 2016 to say a few words about the loss of their son, an American soldier. The experience of losing a loved one in service of the country is sadly something a lot of families have been through, but Khan’s appearance brought more attention, both positive and horrible. This is his story, from his family’s immigration from Pakistan to the United States, to his Army captain son and the grief caused by his devastating death. Khan shows what it is to make sacrifices for your country and what it means to be a real patriot.

Backlist bump: The Constitution of the United States by Delegates of the Constitutional Convention

The Tethered Mage (Swords and Fire) by Melissa Caruso

The first in an exciting new fantasy series! Okay, I don’t actually know if the other books will be exciting, but this one certainly is! It’s about magic – and the control of magic. Zaira has lived her whole life on the streets, hiding her abilities away from those who would imprison her. But hers is a dangerous magic, and her seemingly fated meeting with a falconer might be the catalyst that drags them into an all-out war. Lying, and double-crossing, and assassination attempts, oh my! What fun!

Backlist bump: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Stay rad,

Liberty

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To Be or Not to Be, That Is Riz Ahmed’s Question, and More News

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 20, 2017

Welcome to another Monday! Any Monday that starts off with Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Historical Ghostbusters, Historical Germbusters, and More New Books!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 16, 2017

Hello, book lovers! It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for things made from wood…why, I mean books, of course! (That’s how Mr. Rogers sang it, right?) I am extremely excited about a couple sequels out today: Strange Lies by Maggie Thrash and Righteous by Joe Ide. There are also a bunch of other amazing titles out now! I have a few for you below and you can hear about several more great books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including A Line in the Dark, We’re Going to Need More Wine, and The RBG Workout.

Sponsored by A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney

Through letters and diaries that have never before been published, A Secret Sisterhood resurrects the forgotten friendships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators. They were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always—until now—tantalizingly consigned to the shadows.

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Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir by Amy Tan

Love the novels of Amy Tan? Then you’ll love to read about her childhood and influences. Love reading books where writers discuss their craft? Then you’ll love learning about Tan’s process and how she brings memory into her work. She’s a wonderful writer, and it’s a delight to have a work of nonfiction from her. It’s a win for everyone, really.

Backlist bump: The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

Just recently shortlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the wonderful novel is about family, loss, and expectations. After Julia’s sister, Olga, dies in a tragic accident, Julia is expected to fill her shoes as the perfect daughter. But Julia wants to go to college after graduation, not stay home and care for her grieving mother, who likes to point out all the ways in which Julia is not Olga. sweet, sad, and sometimes laugh out loud funny, this story captures what it is to feel guilt and grief and still try to manage your own hopes and dreams.

Backlist bump: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

When is it a better time to read a gruesome history of medicine than right before Halloween??? Fitzharris spares no details documenting Joseph Lister and his campaign to teach the medical profession that germs really existed. (Before Lister, doctors didn’t wash their hands or their medical instruments all that often. Blergh.) It’s also an illuminating look at a profession one looked upon with skepticism, a profession that often relied on graveyards to supply their knowledge…

Backlist bump: Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge

Really, I just want to type “OH EM GEE FRANCES HARDINGE IS THE BEST” over and over in this space, but I will also add that this is a wildly imaginative dark historical fantasy set during the English Civil War, about ghosts, inheritance, and a dead bear. Hardinge is the empress of delightfully weird and creepy books.

Backlist bump: The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst

Set in New Orleans around Hurricane Katrina, this is a powerful story about family and resilience in the face of disaster and violence. Cora Boisdorés refuses to evacuate before the storm, leaving her father and stepmother to flee without her and putting a deep strain on their marriage. Cora herself is the victim of violence, and it is her sister, Del, returning to her hometown from NYC, who must solve the mystery of what happened to Cora and come to terms with the city’s avoidable tragedies.

Backlist bump: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

Stay rad,

Liberty

Book Radar

A New Chuck Palahniuk is Coming in 2018 and More News

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 13, 2017

Happy Monday, book lovers! Okay, you may not have to like that it’s Monday, but at least there are books, and there is always awesome book-related news to go along with them. I have listed some of the gloriousness below. Hope you’re reading something marvelous! Enjoy your week, and be excellent to each other. – xoxo, Liberty

Sponsored by the University of Iowa Press, publisher of What Counts as Love, 2017 John Simmons Short Fiction Award-winning collection by Marian Crotty.

The stories in What Counts as Love often touch on themes of addiction, class, sexuality, and gender. The characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In “Crazy for You,” two girls spy on a neighbor’s sex life, as their own sexuality hovers in the distance. In “The Fourth Fattest Girl at Cutting Horse Ranch,” the daily life of a residential treatment center for eating disorders is disrupted by the arrival of a celebrity.

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Ella Purnell will play the lead role in Sweetbitter.

The Weeknd gets his own Marvel comic book, Starboy.

Chuck Palahniuk announced he has a new book coming out in May 2018.

E.L. James will release another Fifty Shades book in November: Darker: Fifty Shades Darker.

Netflix gives series order to Michael B. Jordan’s sci-fi family drama Raising Dion.

Harper Collins will publish Cher’s memoir.

Gambit, starring Channing Tatum, will open Valentine’s Day 2019.

Cover Reveals

Happily Ever After has the first look at Kasie West’s Listen to Your Heart. (Point, May 29, 2018)

From Twinkle, With Love: Preview Sandhya Menon’s new YA novel. (Simon Pulse, June 5, 2018)

Harlequin Teen shared the first look at All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell. (Harlequin Teen, February 27, 2018)

K. Arsenault Rivera has a sequel to The Tiger’s Daughter coming: The Phoenix Empress! (Tor Books, July 24, 2018)

The first peek at Sloane Crosley’s forthcoming essay collection, Look Alive Out There, has been posted. (MCD, April 3, 2018)

There’s a first look at Pumpkinheads, the collaboration between Rainbow Rowell and cartoonist and animator Faith Erin Hicks.

Crimespree Magazine revealed the cover for Blackout by Alex Segura. (Polis Books, May 8, 2018)

Sneak Peeks!

The official Justice League trailer is out!

Hulu’s Castle Rock will be an anthology show that connects the worlds of Stephen King.

Professor Marston & The Wonder Women gets a comic book treatment, extended trailer ahead of release.

Book Riot Recommends

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, January 2, 2018)

Reading this book this summer kicked off a month-long faerie book binge. But this still might have been my favorite. Fans of Sarah J. Maas and Leigh Bardugo (and Holly Black, of course!) will love this tale of magic, royalty, and treachery about two sisters kidnapped from this world and raised in the High Court of Faerie.

A State of Freedom: A Novel by Neel Mukherjee (W.W. Norton & Company, January 2, 2018)

Set in contemporary India, this is a searing portrait of displacement and migration, featuring five characters in different circumstances trying to find their way in the world. It’s a devastating, gorgeously written story of people seeking to change their lives.

And this is funny.

I am here to help you relive your childhood NeverEnding Story feels.

New Books

October New Books Megalist: The Sequel!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date October 9, 2017

Somehow, it turns out that I read more new books coming out in October than any other month this year. And so many of them come out today, so I just had to do another big list! (“Oh, no, Liberty, not MORE books. Whatever shall we do?”) Yep, here’s a kitten-ton of great things to read. You can hear about a few of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about amazing books we loved, such as The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Code Girls, and Forest of a Thousand Lanterns.

Sponsored by Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch by Anna Fleiss and Lauren Mancuso

FEMINIST ICON CROSS-STITCH puts a new spin on smashing the patriarchy. Featuring inspiring bios and embroidery patterns of empowering sayings and trailblazing women – like Gloria Steinem, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Beyoncé – this book is a celebration of everyone’s favorite lady heroes. With an introduction on modern feminism and instructions on the basics of cross-stitch, FEMINIST ICON CROSS-STITCH is perfect for veteran crafters who have already knit their own pussy hats and those who are new to the craftivism game. As the book says, the future is female – so start cross-stitching and let these powerhouse women inspire you to make herstory!