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
- Coulsen Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad wins the 2016 National Book Award. Other awards went to YA graphic novel March, poet Daniel Borzutzky, and Ibram X. Kendi (for Stamped from the Beginning:The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.) (National Book Foundation; Publishers Weekly)
- Bob Dylan Won’t Be Picking Up His Nobel Prize in Person (NPR: The Two-Way)
- Barnes & Noble introduces a $49.99 NOOK tablet, presumably to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The new Nook tablet is Android-based and will have access to the full line of Android apps in the Google Play store. (B&N)
- Friday’s Google Doodle paid tribute to Blackfeet novelist and poet James Welch on his 76th birthday.
- “Post-truth” is the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016 (Oxford Dictionaries) You can learn about it, and all the runners-up, in the video below.
Worth Reading/Listening
- One Way to Bridge the Political Divide: Read the Book That’s Not For You. NPR interviewed new National Book Foundation president Lisa Lucas about the National Book Awards, reading, and books’ power to expand our understanding of others.
- What You Can Do: Bookish Charities You Can Donate To Right Now (BookRiot)
- The Power of the Accidental Find (Lucas Maxwell for BookRiot)
- Reading Locally When You Travel (BookRiot)
Book & Movie Announcements
I am so excited to see Beauty and the Beast! It looks beautifully done.
Awesome Lists
Really Cool / Just for Fun
Check out this amazing D&D map/diorama! (via Nerdist)
Bookish Quote
I’m thankful for books, for the authors who write them, and for the libraries that share them.
Kimberly @ Turning the Pages
The trailer for Beauty and The Beast looks amazing! I couldn’t get over how awesome everything looked…I told the Mister he was taking me to see it and he sighed in defeat lol.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I know, right? I missed Cinderella in theaters, but I’m definitely going to this one.
Kimberly @ Turning the Pages
I still haven’t seen Cinderellla….is it good?
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Lark_Bookwyrm
Yes, I thought it was very good. They were able to give both Cinderella and the Prince a bit more depth and backstory than the original. (Though I think I still like Ever After the best of the Cinderella adaptations I’ve seen.)
Rita @ View From My Books
I love Beauty and the Beast anyway and have read retellings, but that movie looks awesome! I can’t wait.
I also enjoyed the accidental fund article, how true! And I’ll see if I can find a book charity to connect with. Thanks, as always ?
Lark_Bookwyrm
I’m really excited for B&TB!
Lexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookviews
I’m so excited about the new Beauty and the Beast movie 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend and happy reading 🙂
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Lark_Bookwyrm
Me too! Thank you, and I wish you a good weekend, too.
Katherine @ I Wish I Lived in a Library
Beauty and the Beast looks gorgeous! While I like the animated version I was a teenager when it came out and I just didn’t fall in love with it like so many people did but I love the idea of Emma Watson as Belle! That diorama is amazing! I love detailed things like that.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I did love the animated B&tB, but I’m really excited to see Emma Watson in the part, and a lot of the other cast members as well. And visually, what I’ve seen so far is gorgeous!
Toady
I just learned from another post today about the Beauty and the Beast film that is in production. The trailer is absolutely magical and I am very much looking forward to it now too. I found the word of the year and the info surrounding it very interesting. Thanks for sharing that. Post-truth. Hmm.
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Roberta @It's a Mystery
Emma Watson was a perfect choice for Beauty and the Beast. Thanks for sharing the trailer.
I also like your quote. I am thankful for books, too.