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
- Bookstore’s Tweet On The Sale Of A Children’s Book After 27 Years Goes Viral (NPR)
- B&N to Open Up to 15 Stores in 2019 (Publishers Weekly)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- Fall 2018 YA Spotlight: Teen Lit Reflects Wider World (Publishers Weekly)
- Becky Chambers and Drew Williams Talk Science Fiction, Writing, and Fight Scenes. And pens vs. keyboards. (Bookish)
- How Libraries Can Help Readers Become Writers (Shari Feldman, for Publishers Weekly)
- Is It Okay To Stop Reading A Book You Don’t Like? Most discussions of this question that I’ve seen say yes, absolutely, because life is too short to waste valuable reading time on a book you don’t like. Well, here’s a valid counter-argument, and one that made me think. (Book Riot)
- For the Virtues I Have Acquired Working as a Librarian, I Am Truly Thankful (Kristen Arnett, Literary Hub)
Book & Movie Announcements
- Yasmine Seale Has Retranslated ‘Aladdin’. “[The] new translation of the classic tale reveals its surprising depth.” (Publishers Weekly)
Awesome Lists
- 25 Of The Best Family Audiobooks To Listen To In 2018… on your holiday road trip, perhaps. (Book Riot)
- 20 YA Books for Middle-Grade Readers. Of course, YA and adult readers can enjoy them, too… but they’re appropriate for elementary-school student whose reading level is well above their age and maturity. I would have loved this list when Robin was at that stage. (Book Riot)
Really Cool / Just for Fun
C is for Czar, K is for Knight, M is for Mnemonic, and P is for Pterodactyl, in this amusing book by a rapper and a computer programmer. Read more about it (and see more pictures!) at Bored Panda.
That’s it for this week!
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
I think I might need to buy P is for Pterodactyl… that looks too cool!
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits recently posted…Sunday Summary ~ 25 November 2018
Lark_Bookwyrm
Doesn’t it look fun?!
RO
That Alphabet books sounds very fun, and I love posts about not finishing books that we don’t like. Years ago, it never happened at all, but it seemed the older I got, the more often I was stopping.(lol) These days, I’ve been pretty much hanging in with anything I’ve been reading. That’s a shocker to me that Barnes and Nobles is opening up 15 additional stores, and good news! Hugs and Happy Thursday! RO
Lark_Bookwyrm
I DNF books much more now than I used to. I don’t know if it’s because I have less patience (which is weird because in most things, I have more patience than when I was younger, or simply because I’m reading more new-to-me books and authors and thus have more chance of not “clicking” with a few of them.