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Alice meets Felix and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. While still young, life is catching up with them. They desire each other, delude each other, get together, and break apart. They have sex, worry about sex, worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
New Book Spotlights All Original Goosebumps Covers
Goosebumps is a children’s horror book series in which the cover artwork is as memorable as the book itself. On November 30, Dynamite Entertainment will release Beware: The Art of Goosebumps, a new book spotlighting all of the original covers of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels. The hardcover book, written by Sarah Rodriguez, will feature Tim Jacobus’ artwork for the original run of Goosebumps, and “tons of fun facts about the series alongside a walkthrough of all books and covers in the Goosebumps collections.”
100 Notable Books of 2021, According to the New York Times
2021 has been a great year for books! The New York Times has announced a list of 100 notable books of the year. Selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review, the list includes several types of books, including fiction, memoir, nonfiction, poetry, and short stories.
5 Writers Make the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize Shortlist
Five Canadian poets have made the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist. Here are the finalists: Mia Anderson (Onion), Lise Gaston (James), Adriana Oniță (Untranslatable), Bola Opaleke (The Morgue in my Tears), and Alison Watt (Addendum —”Flora of a Small Island in the Salish Sea”). The winner of the CBC Poetry Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and will have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The remaining four finalists will each receive $1,000. The winner will be announced this Wednesday on November 24th.
Texas Book Ban Would Cost School Districts Millions of Dollars in Staff Time
A Texas lawmaker’s anti-LGBTQ and anti-CRT book censorship attempt would cost the state tens of thousands of staff hours to implement.