Glory Edim's 'Gather Me' traces the dramatic arc of her life as well as her discovery of Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and other Black writers. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-10-21 17:03:20 UTC ]
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Armed with new and disturbing survey information about youth reading from the National Literary Trust, this year's UK World Book Day hands out book tokens. The post The UK’s 2020 World Book Day: ‘Reading in Sharp Decline’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-03-05 15:46:41 UTC ]
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"Your House Will Pay" author Steph Cha and "Hi Five" author Joe Ide join the L.A. Times Book Club in Long Beach. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-02 21:46:24 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has won Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, a satirical debut novel about race and authenticity in the workplace, for a six-figure deal following a nine-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-01 20:26:38 UTC ]
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An awesome daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-03-01 11:30:56 UTC ]
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A librarian makes the case: Kids’ connection to comics helps create lifelong readers. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-27 15:14:00 UTC ]
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Book Riot picks 30 exciting small press books published in 2020, from 25 different publishers, that we can't wait for you to read. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-02-27 11:36:43 UTC ]
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I do not understand why you would turn to The Office for anything other than its grimly comic tableaux of late-capitalist malaise and self-deluded mediocrity. Apparently I have missed its potential to teach 4- to 8-year-olds the “importance of teamwork” and “that it’s always OK to ask for help.”... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-02-25 21:39:17 UTC ]
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The month’s must-reads includes Hilary Mantel’s finale to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-25 19:27:19 UTC ]
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The month’s must-reads includes Hilary Mantel’s finale to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-25 19:27:00 UTC ]
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Looking for a queer book club or even want to start your own? This is how to get started. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-02-25 11:36:57 UTC ]
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If the very idea of book club puts the fear in you, take a page from the introvert's guide to joining book club and consider these tips for participating. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-02-24 11:36:04 UTC ]
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Kim Hyun Sook’s irresistible memoir conveys her political and social awakening with equal measures of hilarity and terror. The post Panel Mania: ‘Banned Book Club’ appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2020-02-21 11:00:33 UTC ]
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Novels by Philippa Gregory, Christy Lefteri and Mike Gayle are among the six-strong line-up for the Richard & Judy Book Club this spring. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-19 12:29:23 UTC ]
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'Banned Book Club' by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada is the true story of Hyun Sook’s years as a South Korean college student under the brutal military regime of the early 1980s. In this 11-page excerpt a naive and apolitical Hyun Sook meets the fearless student members of a book... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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20 of the best audiobooks narrated by black women, including fiction, classics, science fiction and fantasy, memoir, essays, and poetry. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-02-14 11:38:06 UTC ]
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From the fog of a so-far-extremely-cursed 2020, do you even remember 2019 anymore? The albino panda? 30 to 50 feral hogs? The US women’s national soccer team at the World Cup? What else even happened? Roxane Gay is here to remind us with this recap, which also lists her favorite books of the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-02-06 16:40:23 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House teams with TBWA and Barnes & Noble to launch #DiversityEditions for Black History Month. During the Pequod‘s last voyage in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick, Captain Ahab is 58 years old. Physically, he has a prosthetic leg made of whale bone, and a pale white mark or... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2020-02-05 09:00:42 UTC ]
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A Reese Witherspoon pick, a Silicon Valley memoir and the most talked about book of the year so far. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-04 00:16:04 UTC ]
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Bestsellers are mostly ephemeral. As we go through life, some other books are worth returning to. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-01-29 16:00:00 UTC ]
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You’ve already broken your resolution to read more in 2020? It’s not too late to turn things around. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-01-28 18:54:12 UTC ]
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