THE GILDED ONES Is Being Adapted and More Book Radar!

Deals, Reals, and Squeals!

Namina Forna’s YA fantasy novel The Gilded Ones is being made into a film. (I looooved this book.)

Here’s the cover reveal of Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora edited by Saraciea J. Fennell.

Netflix’s Redwall adaptation is being made by the creator of Over the Garden Wall (which is the greatest thing—watch it!)

Here’s the first look at Leila Slimani’s In the Country of Others.

Huda Fahmy has sold a graphic novel based on her life, called Huda F Are You.

Here’s the cover reveal of Mine by Delilah Dawson.

The first winner of The Novel Prize has been announced.

Here’s the cover reveal of This is Our Rainbow, an all-LGBTQ+ middle grade anthology edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby.

Dang it! I wasn’t interested in watching the Game of Thrones prequel until they added Rhys Ifans.

And speaking of GoT, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are developing the Richard Powers novel The Overstory for Netflix.

Here’s the cover reveal of Well Matched by Jen DeLuca.

Claire Danes will replace Keira Knightley as the star in the adaptation of Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent.

Diamond White will voice the lead role in Disney Channel’s animated series Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

Here’s the cover reveal of A Soft Place to Land by Janae Marks.

Abby Jimenez’s The Happy Ever After Playlist is being made into a film.

Rebekah Weatherspoon has a YA romance novel on the way.

Lily Gladstone has joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

Latinx in Publishing is launching two fellowships.

Here are the the finalists for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards.

Here’s a preview of the final season of Shrill.

Here’s the cover reveal of Witch Please (Fix-It Witches) by Ann Aguirre.

Jamie Chung and Oscar Wahlberg have joined the cast of Dexter.

Jessica Goodman’s They Wish They Were Us is being made into a 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:

The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel by Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s Press, October 1)

This was so awesome! I was a big fan of The Luminous Dead, Starling’s super-claustrophobic space cave diving book, and let me tell you—this is nothing like it. Except that it’s also intense and amazing! It’s like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak.

Set in the early 20th century, it’s about Jane Lawrence, a young woman with a head for numbers who has decided that marriage is much like math—it is a problem to be solved. She makes a list of the eligible men in her town and decides that the handsome young doctor, Augustine Lawrence, is the best fit. So she proposes a marriage business arrangement, in which it is a marriage of convenience and she also works as his accountant.

There are definite sparks between Jane and Augustine, and she proves to be useful in a medical emergency as well, and so though he wants to say no (for reasons we are not aware of yet), he agrees to the marriage. But Augustine tells Jane he has one rule on which he will not budge: she can never spend a night with him at his family estate, and must instead live alone in the lodgings over his surgery. It is an odd request, but since this is an unconventional arrangement anyway, Jane agrees.

Buuuuuuuuuut this rule lasts for less than an hour once they are wed when, through a series of errors and accidents, Jane winds up Augustine’s derelict family estate, and she soon learns just why it is that Augustine doesn’t want her there.

This blood-soaked book was chilling from beginning to end, with great reveals and an intense romance, plus lots of ghosts, gore, and guts! I loved Jane and her no nonsense approach to everything that comes her way, even when it’s fantastical. And I loved the setting and the unique ghost tale. I would LOVE to see this adapted into a movie or limited series.

Heads up that this is super bloody! Content warnings for graphic descriptions of death, loss of a spouse, illness, body horror, gore, war, miscarriage, and violence.

What I’m reading this week.

Dead Dead Girls (A Harlem Renaissance Mystery) by Nekesa Afia

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton

The Seven Doors by Agnes Ravatn, Rosie Hedger (translator)

The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox

Groan-worthy joke of the week:

When does a joke become a “dad joke?” When it becomes apparent.

And this is funny:

I never turn my camera on.

Happy things:

Here are a few things I enjoy that I thought you might like as well:

Modern Family: I have watched the first episode now—I’m in.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Okay, so this is in no way a happy thing, but it’s just what I need playing in the background while I do jigsaw puzzles. I have now made it to the middle of season five and I am still into it. After watching so much Murder She Wrote recently, I’m enjoying the crimes coming to them, not just happening everywhere they go.
Jigsaw puzzles! Yup, still puzzling.

Numberzilla. Still not tired of this game.
Purrli: This website makes the relaxing sounds of a cat purring.

And here’s a cat picture!

This is what happens when you fold them and put them away before they’re completely dry.

Trivia answer: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

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