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It’s Thursday! Er…it is Thursday, right? I can’t keep the days straight. Yesterday I said it was both Tuesday and Thursday at different times, when in fact it was Wednesday, lol. Anything exciting going on out there in the world? It has been a quiet week for me, although I am excited to tell you I will be in conversation with author Aidan Truhen about his latest crime novel next Tuesday, if you want to check it out. I love doing author talks!
Moving on to today’s newsletter: I have exciting book news for you about adaptations and book covers, and I’ve included a picture of one of my ridiculous orange monsters, some trivia, and more! I love writing these newsletters and I appreciate your support so much. Whatever you are doing or watching or reading this week, I hope you good bob and we same place again very now. I’ll see you again on Monday. – xoxo, Liberty, Your Friendly Neighborhood Velocireader™
Trivia question time! What famous mystery writer once worked as an ophthalmologist? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reals, and Squeals!
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Tordotcom Publishing has acquired six more Martha Wells books, including three more in the Murderbot Diaries series. The first is Witch King, a fantasy novel coming in 2022.
Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett will score The Great Gatsby for Broadway.
Here’s the first look at We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera. (I loved this book!)
Here’s a preview of Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang. (I also loved this book!)
The Paper Girls series adaptation has cast its Paper Girls.
Here’s the first trailer for Hulu’s adaptation of Nine Perfect Strangers.
Destin Daniel Cretton is attached to direct an adaptation of the upcoming book Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown.
Here is the cover reveal for Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang.
A reboot of The Borrowers is in the works.
Here’s the cover reveal for High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir by Edgar Gomez.
Reese Witherspoon has launched the LitUp Fellowship for Underrepresented Women Writers.
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore is being adapted for the big screen, with Stephen Curry attached to produce.
Walton Goggins, Marsha Stephanie Blake, and Omar Miller are among five new actors to join the adaptation of Walter Mosley’s The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey.
Don Winslow’s debut novel A Cool Breeze On The Underground is being adapted into a series.
Guillermo Del Toro’s Trollhunters: Rise Of The Titans adaptation gets a Netflix release date and teaser trailer.
Here’s the trailer for Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.
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:
Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol (Soho Press, January 4, 2022)
I know I have talked about Insurrecto and The Revolution According to Raymundo Matatwo, two of Apostol’s other novels, here and on the podcast. I think her work is fantastic, and I am even more excited to read this next one, coming at the beginning of 2022, because it involves books! My life math is simple: Books = yay! Books about books = OMG YAY.
This is Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning debut novel, available in the US soon for the first time. It’s about a book lover, living under Ferdinand Marcos’s brutal rule, who wants to find happiness and live her life by getting to know the authors she loves. It sounds intriguing and it has great reviews, so it’s going right to the top of anticipated books of 2022!
What I’m reading this week.
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Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee
Emma Who Saved My Life by Wilton Barnhardt
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfishr
White Smoke by Tiffany D Jackson
The Perishing by Natashia Deón
Song stuck in my head:
I Want Everything by Cracker (Also, I’m still really into listening to songs I loved when I was young. You can listen to a lot of them in this playlist I made!)
And this is funny:
Welp, I finally found an epitaph for my headstone.
Happy things:
Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:
- Knights of Basassdom: Yep, back on this nonsense. It’s so ridiculous, plus I heart Jimmi Simpson. I always put it on when I can’t decide what I should watch.
- Jeopardy: I’m big into trivia right now. I don’t play any online, because there’s always too much nonsense attached, even with the Jeopardy app. I don’t want to pick levels, spend points, or other trivial (heh) things they make you do just to answer a question. So for now, I will continue to watch old episodes of quiz shows.
- Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.
And here’s a cat picture!
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You put your left paw in, you put your left paw out…
Trivia answer: Arthur Conan Doyle.
You made it to the bottom! High five. Thanks for reading! – xo, L