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Happy Monday, readers! I hope you had an enjoyable weekend. Let’s see, what have I been doing lately? Oh yes! I am all caught up on Resident Alien, which I have been enjoying very much. And my orange monsters went for their yearly checkup on Friday and the vet said they need to go on a diet, so I am preparing for them to be extra-annoying about food. They’re just so cute, how can I not give them a million treats???
Moving on: I have some exciting book news for you today and a look at an exciting space western adventure, plus cover reveals, a terrible pun, my kitty queen, and trivia! Let’s get started, shall we?
Here’s Monday’s trivia question: What is the name of the thousand-year-old secret society depicted in The Da Vinci Code? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
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Kwame Alexander’s The Crossover will be a Disney+ series.
Phoebe Robinson shared the cover of her upcoming book Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes.
A Spanish language spinoff of Bird Box is in the works at Netflix.
Dolly Parton will star in her own comic book.
Let the Right One In will now also be a television series.
Here’s the cover reveal of Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo.
Justified‘s Raylan Givens may be back in another series.
Here’s the cover reveal of The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu.
Matthew McConaughey is returning for the sequel series to A Time For Mercy.
HBO is once again developing three more Game of Thrones spinoffs.
Here are the new series tie-in covers for Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone series.
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:
Ten Low by Stark Holborn (Titan Books, June 1)
Holy cats, was this book fun! The blurb promised “Dune meets Firefly” and it did not disappoint. I would even add “with a side of Mad Max” to that comparison. Bottom line: It’s an epic nerdpurr.
Ten Low about an ex-army medic named, well, Ten Low, who lives on one of the desert wasteland planets at the edge of the universe after fighting in an interstellar war years ago. She travels alone and keeps to herself, but then a spaceship falls from the sky and crashes right in front of her.
The survivor of the wreckage is a 13-year-old girl with markings that Ten recognizes immediately: this is a child soldier, modified and trained to be a deadly weapon by the side Ten fought against in the war. The child is Gabriella Ortiz, a decorated general, and she’s ready to fight Ten, even though she’s lost and injured. But Ten strikes a deal with her, because she’s still a child and Ten is a medic: Ten will help her find the military base she was looking for before the crash in return for medical supplies.
But it’s not long, minutes really, before they’re being chased by deadly scavengers, and things just get worse from there. The General’s rendezvous point turns out to be an assassination attempt—the army is ready to decommission its child soldiers. Now the duo is on the run from the army and scavengers, and they will make a few more enemies along the way before the book is over, when the secrets Ten is hiding also come to light. Will they ever find a place they feel safe again?
I LOVED THIS BOOK. The action is nonstop and lots of fun, with many gunfights and cruiser chases, and there’s lots of dirty dealings and double-crossings. It’s a futuristic Wild West! I also loved the General. Just because Ten is helping her doesn’t mean she has to like her, and she’s a surly a-hole to Ten the whole book, which I found funny, too. I love a reluctant partner-road trip story. (Which is why Midnight Run is one of my favorite movies. RIP Yaphet Kotto.)
(CW for crashes, fires, war PTSD, physical violence, murder, and mention of assault.)
What I’m reading this week.
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The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone
Girl Giant and the Jade War by Van Hoang
Groan-worthy joke of the week:
Did you know corduroy pillows are in style? They’re making headlines.
And this is funny:
Well, they’re not wrong.
Happy things:
Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:
- Resident Alien: Alan Tudyk is a comedic genius and this is the long overdue star vehicle that he deserves. He is forever my leaf on the wind.
- My happy light: Because sometimes you need a little help. Every time I use it, I think of Walt on Northern Exposure. But seriously, I’ve had this light for almost six years, and it’s worth the money.
- Gravity Falls: Okay, but seriously, have you watched this show? It’s my favorite cartoon. Yes, I just rewatched it three weeks ago. Yes, it has been many times. No, I’m not sorry. I also made a playlist with 64 versions of the theme song.
- Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.
And here’s a cat picture!
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Where’s Millay, lol?
Trivia answer: Priory Of Sion.
Remember that whatever you are doing or watching or reading this week, I am sending you love and hugs. Please be safe, and be mindful of others. It takes no effort to be kind. I’ll see you again on Thursday. xoxo, Liberty