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Happy Monday! Did anyone manage to get in their extra hour of reading time this weekend? I sure did! I have had a heck of a year, but I finally seem to be picking up speed again with my reading. I wish I could stop time and read for months. But then those months would probably turn into years, because who am I kidding, I would never stop! ULTIMATE DREAM.
Moving on: I have a some bookish news for you today. 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: Who directed the 1987 horror classic Hellraiser, based on the novella by Clive Barker? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
Deals, Reels, and Squeals!
Alex Bledsoe’s The Tufa Series has been optioned for television.
Here’s the first look at The Empire Of Gold, the final book in S.A. Chakraborty’s Daevabad Trilogy.
Hub City Press announced an upcoming anthology about the new American South by writers of color.
And here’s the first look at Cemetery Boys by Aidan Thomas.
Eve L. Ewing’s Electric Arches is being made into an anthology series.
Karolina Waclawiak shared the cover and release date of her upcoming novel, Life Events.
Netflix released the trailer for The Witcher with Henry Cavill.
Here’s the first look at Zoë Kravitz is Hulu’s High Fidelity reboot.
Lady Gaga will star in a film about the Gucci family fashion dynasty, based on the book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden.
Clive Barker’s Books of Blood will be a feature film on Hulu.
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!
Excited to read:
These Women by Ivy Pochoda (Ecco, May 19, 2020)
I learned about this upcoming book just last night and I am soooooooo excited because Ivy Pochoda writes amazing crime novels, and this one claims to be “a serial killer story like you’ve never seen before—a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change.” SIGN. ME. UP.
What I’m reading this week:
Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis
The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz
Lobizona: A Novel (Wolves of No World Book) by Romina Garber
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Queen of the Conquered (Islands of Blood and Storm) by Kacen Callender
Pun of the week:
R.I.P boiled water. You will be mist.
Here’s a kitten picture:
Zevon was a Weeble for Halloween.
And this is funny.
I feel the same, honestly.
Trivia answer: Clive Barker.
You made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading! – xo, L