News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Book News
- Bill Gates gives a book to every US student graduating [college] in 2018. Well, an ebook. Specifically, Hans Roslings Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why We’re Wrong About the World—And Why Things Are Better Than You Think. (The Guardian)
- Author’s Guild Adding Regional Chapters (Publishers Weekly)
- ‘Boston Review’ Poetry Editors Resign over Díaz (Publishers Weekly)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- V.E. Schwab gave this year’s Pembroke Tolkien Lecture (above), and it’s really worth listening to. Stick around for the Q&A as well.
- You cannot be ‘well read’ without reading women (Rhiannon Lucy Cosslet, The Guardian)
Upcoming Books, Movies, & TV
- The trailer for How to Train Your Dragon 3 is out. How did I not even know this was coming? I can’t wait!!!
Katherine @ I Wish I Lived in a Library
You just made the Tornado’s day with the How to Train Your Dragon news. He’s obsessed with the movies and the shows!
Lark_Bookwyrm
That trailer made my day, too!
Lark
Love the Plato quote! 🙂
Lark_Bookwyrm
I rather like that one myself! I did borrow it from Pinterest, but if you click it, then click it again in Pinterest, you should see the original post.
RO
Bill Gates and his wife are pretty amazing with the kind acts they do. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a dragon we could fly away on every now and then?(lol) That quote is pretty phenomenal! Hope your day is going well! Hugs…RO
Lark_Bookwyrm
I’ve wanted a dragon ever since I first read McCaffrey’s Pern series… 🙂
Rita @ View From the Books
I love Bill Gates and Melinda Gates lately– deciding to use their wealth to help various groups and not hoard their money since they’ve said their kids are well provided for.
And dragons are cool and so is the book quote, so you’ve shared a rather hopeful and upbeat news feed today–thanks!
Lark_Bookwyrm
It’s nice when the news is positive! And I can’t wait for HTTYD3.