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Even after COVID-19 earned declaration as a pandemic and public health emergency, libraries made preparations for what that would mean. Many closed, shifting to digital work. One notable exception was Chicago Public Library, which kept their libraries open far past a point where staff felt safe, implementing no new safety measures to protect them. Now,
On Thursday, Rick Riordan and his wife Becky Riordan took to Twitter to announce the development of the Percy Jackson series for Disney+. On December 10, 2019, Rick tweeted that he was meeting with Disney executives to convince them to adapt his popular middle grade novels. I guess it worked! Pssst. Hey, demigods . . . pic.twitter.com/7ep4aeyS3I —
The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t stopping at crashing economies and claiming thousands of lives. Now, it is also reinforcing one of the most despicable atrocities in America: anti-Asian racism. Asian Americans have been the target of physical and verbal attacks recently, reports The Washington Post. What’s worse, this may have been exacerbated when President Trump himself
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It’s coming! Netflix’s adaptation of The Baby-Sitters Club will be available to stream on July 3. And Netflix just dropped the first teaser trailer for the new series. The 10-episode streaming series will feature the characters we all know and love from the books: Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace), Mary-Anne Spier (Malia Baker), Claudia Kishi (Momona
Actor and director Andy Serkis, known for playing Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, will be doing a marathon reading of The Hobbit, cover to cover, to raise money for the NHS. The continuous reading will be streamed live on Friday, May 8, beginning at 10:00 a.m. GMT (5:00 a.m.
Wizarding World, the online home of Harry Potter and all his wizard friends, has gathered an all-star cast to read Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone one chapter at a time on the Wizarding World site, as part of the Harry Potter at Home program. Chapter one is read by none other than the original Boy
It’s the year of the vampire, with YA vampire books coming back into fashion once again. In the style of Suzanne Collins who announced a prequel to her mega-bestselling Hunger Games series called A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (May 19), Stephenie Meyer has announced the release of a book in her huge Twilight series:
With so much happening around us, it’s pretty hard to stay focused on one thing for hours. As a result of which we are often hard on ourselves for not being productive enough. Worry no more as here is a list of short books that you can finish reading in a day or two. Reading
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With much of the world on lockdown due to Covid-19, many crime fiction festivals have cancelled this year’s events. Instead, some are offering crime fiction lovers the opportunity to join virtual festivals online and interact with authors at live events and book launches, or watch pre-recorded interviews and panels. May Newcastle Noir goes virtually live from
Good news Pratchett fans! Narrativia, Pratchett’s production company, has signed on with Motive Pictures and Endeavor Content to develop the Discworld series. Key word there: develop. It’s not set in stone that the adaptation will air—many projects go into development and never come out—but hopes are high so far. It’s not yet known in what order
The Matanuska-Susitna School Board (Mat-Su) pulled five classics of American literature from high school English classrooms in a sweeping 5-2 vote. Pulled from curriculum are Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, and The Great Gatsby
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