Sponsored by The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor, published by Park Row Books
Brussels, 1943. Street orphan Helene survives by selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s world changes when she befriends journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into Nazi propaganda that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin.
Hellooooooooo! I hope you had a fabulous weekend. I certainly did. I read books, pet the cats, and watched the second season of Derry Girls. In short: it was perfect. But I can’t believe we’re already in August! There are soooo many amazing books still to come in 2019, and lots of great news, a bit of which I’ve gathered here. Please enjoy the rest of your week, and remember to be excellent to each other! I’ll see you again on Thursday. – xoxo, Liberty
Here’s Monday’s trivia question: “A screaming comes across the sky” is the first line to what novel? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reels, and Squeals!
Nicole Dennis-Benn’s novel Patsy is the Today Show’s August Read with Jenna book club pick.
A special edition of the Fleabag script is being published.
Samantha Irby started a newsletter!
Nightmare Fuel has the cover reveal of The Return by Rachel Harrison and it is giving me life. (Berkley, March 24, 2020)
Ava DuVernay discussed her upcoming movie for DC Comics.
Edward Snowden’s memoir will be published in September.
The new adaptation of The Stand has added four more members to the cast.
Caleb Roehrig has written a werewolf comic for the Archie universe.
Here’s the trailer for Satanic Panic, written by author Grady Hendrix.
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!)
Loved, loved, loved:
The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, August 20)
This is a beautiful, heart-squeezing book about a young woman named Zee, who’s trying to hold her life together as it falls to pieces all over the place, and a neurodiverse young man named Gentry who believes he is a knight and that he is sworn to protect her. Their gentle, unusual relationship is at the heart of a story about family and love and saving yourself. Greenwood continues to be an astounding writer. (Full confession: Gentry literally talks in Olde English, and it takes a page or two to get into the rhythm, but then it adds so much to the story.)
What I’m reading this week:
Polite Society by Mahesh Rao
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, Alison Watts (translator)
Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin, Marlaine Delargy (translator)
Pun of the week:
What did the duck say when she purchased new lipstick? Put it on my bill!
Here’s a kitten picture:
Such attitude. (Catitude?)
And this is funny.
Trivia answer: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L