Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 07-26-2024
HAPPY FRIDAY!!! ANOTHER WEEKEND OF READING FOR ME however I’m going to be seeing Deadpool at some point this weekend too. Bring on the entertainment!!! 😀 Looking for something to read? I already one-clicked one from below (the latest thriller by Mika Kent is totally my catnip!! Her perfect life hides the secret of the […]
New Books + New SFF to Preorder ASAP: July 26, 2024
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Alex Acks is a writer, geologist, and sharp-dressed sir. They’ve written for Six to Start and been published in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Shimmer, Daily Science Fiction, and more. Alex lives in Denver with their two furry little bastards, […]
Bluestockings, Memoirs, and School Supplies
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Book Banning Updates and “Erasure of the Highest Order”
Dune: Prophecy will be released on HBO Max in November. Here’s a first look at the Fourth Wing TV series. Censorship News The quiet censorship of Pride 2024. Librarian burnout rises as more censorship requests flood the system. The Law Library of Congress just published a report on book and media censorship in selected countries. […]
Horror Deserves a Space in the Best Books of the Century Conversation
I once heard that Grady Hendrix decides on the title of his book before he figures out a plot, and with a title like My Best Friend’s Exorcism, I believe it. I was just randomly wandering through a Barnes & Noble (I’m sorry—indie bookstores forever, I promise) when I saw this book on the shelf. […]
The 2024 TikTok Award Winners
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 2024 TikTok Award Winners Since the biggest TikTok books sell hundreds of thousands of copies, one could argue that the cash is the prize of being a BookTok favorite. But apparently you can get […]
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 26, 2024
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Culinary Cozy, Journalist Thrillers, and More Mystery Books + News!
Girls Who Burn by M.K. Pagano For fans of YA thrillers, fictional serial killers, and enemies-to-lovers! At 18, Addie Blackwood should be thinking about her upcoming college life, but her sister died a year before, and she refuses to accept that it was an accidental fall or suicide. She has a murder suspect, their neighbor […]
Book Censorship News, July 26, 2024
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View […]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS Magic System, Explained
Who Wields Magic? The first thing to understand with The Lord of the Rings magic system is that Middle Earth is not Earth. Yes, Tolkien was essentially creating a mythology for England. However, magic seems to be ever-presents in Middle Earth in a way that it is not in the real world. Mount Doom, the […]