Just a quick note to all you Book Riot readers out there that we’re taking the day off for Memorial Day. Hope you all have an excellent, bookish Monday, and we’ll be back tomorrow with our regularly scheduled programming. In the meantime, here are recommendations for books about military service and a history of the
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What is The Green New Deal, and why is everyone from Naomi Klein to Noam Chomsky publishing books about it? If you remember hearing a lot about The Green New Deal in early 2019, it’s possible that you heard about climate policy and carbon reduction. But The Green New Deal is not just a carbon
Starting today, you can watch Taika Waititi and a star-studded cast of supporting actors read Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach on YouTube. The Oscar-winning writer and director has teamed up with the Roald Dahl Story Company to present a reading of the children’s classic in ten episodes, all benefitting Partners In Health, a
Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web sponsored by our 1-year Kindle Unlimited subscription giveaway, courtesy of Macmillan’s eDeals Newsletter. Enter now! “Back in 1816, Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein and later published the story in 1818. Since then, it has become a tale that many
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: