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También de este lado hay sueños. On this side too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Pérez runs a bookstore in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, and by and large, they live a fairly comfortable life. But when Lydia’s wonderful journalist husband publishes a tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca are forced to flee. None of their lives will ever be the same as they join the countless people trying to reach el norte. Everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?
Happy Thursday! I have a bit of fun bookish news (and a Baby Yoda link, of course because my whole life is Baby Yoda now.) I’ve also rounded up my 100 favorite books of the decade, which was a lot of fun. I am chomping at the bit to start a new decade of reading! In the meantime, whatever you are doing or reading this week, please remember to be kind to yourself and others. I’ll see you again on Monday! – xoxo, Liberty
Trivia question time! The Fallon Blood by Reagan O’Neal is the first novel, written under a nom de plume, by which famous fantasy author? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
AMC Studios will be adapting Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne universe novels.
Casey McQuiston announced a queer Kate & Leopold novel.
Brina Starler announced a modern-day version of Anne of Green Gables.
Netflix’s adaptation of Joe Hill’s Locke & Key starts February 7, 2020.
Anna-Marie McLemore has a fairy tale coming in 2021.
There’s an adaptation of Stephen King’s From a Buick 8 in the works.
David Tennant will play Phileas Fogg in the new Around The World In 80 Days adaptation.
The Wheel of Time cast has grown by four.
Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning will play sisters in adaptation of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.
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!)
Excited to read:
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry (Redhook, June 23, 2020)
I loved The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, so I am doubly-excited to read this new book about the early world, but with magic. Everything is always better magic, right? There will also be revolution, intrigue, and – wait for it – more magic. (The blurb doesn’t actually say that, I am saying it, because MAGIC.
What I’m reading this week.
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
The Heap by Sean Adams
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Parachutes by Kelly Yang
Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay
And this is funny.
Baby Yoda loves Lizzo.
Song stuck in my head:
“Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude” by Yo-Yo Ma, Johann Sebastian Bach
Trivia answer: Robert Jordan. (Which is also a nom de plume. Jordan’s real name was James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L