News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Worth Reading/Viewing
- BookExpo and BookCon 2018: Authors Explore the Multiplicities of Diversity (Publishers Weekly)
- BookExpo 2018: Reaching the Romance Reader (Shelf Awareness) A BookExpo panel discussed how indie bookstores can reach romance readers — and why they should.
- What happened when I (tried to) read 30 books in 30 days (Stephanie Vozza, Fast Company)
- These Portuguese Libraries Are Infested With Bats—and They Like It That Way (Smithsonian)
- Unusual suspects: the writers diversifying detective fiction (David Barnett, The Guardian)
- A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops (The Guardian)
Book & Movie Announcements
- There’s a new Inspector Alleyn mystery called Money in the Morgue! How did I miss this!? HarperCollins had the first few chapters and some notes for an unfinished Inspector Alleyn mystery by Ngaio Marsh. They gave it to fellow New Zealander Stella Duffy to finish. Like Marsh, Duffy is familiar with both NZ and Britain, and has been involved in theater, so she was the logical choice. (Stuff.co.nz) The Guardian praises the novel, and says they can’t tell where Marsh ends and Duffy begins. I must read it!
Bookish Quote
Isn’t that the truth!?
That’s it for this week!
Katherine @ I Wish I Lived in a Library
A new Ngaio Marsh!! I missed that too but now I definitely need a copy. That’s interesting about the bats. I really want to build some bat houses. My grandparents used to have tons of mosquitos and then bats moved in under the house and they’re now mosquito free. It’s fantastic. Great collection of links today!
Lark
That quote is SO true! Books are sometimes a very welcome escape from real life. 🙂
Rita @ View From the Books
Enjoyed your quote- so true! I enjoyed your links today, especially the ones about BookExpo. I haven’t read a Marsh book (yet). Thanks for introducing me to them.
Nicole
That quote is so very true! And I think it would be neat to have bats in the library. 🙂
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Lark_Bookwyrm
The bat guano would be a problem, but it’s an interesting solution to the bug dilemma.
RO
What a perfect quote, and I plan to check out reading 30 books in 30 days. That sounds fascinating! Hugs…RO
Lark_Bookwyrm
Good luck! I read quickly, but I don’t think I could manage 30 in 30, unless they were all really short and fluffy… and I had nothing else pressing to do after a work day.