News & Notes – 12/07/2019

December 7, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm News & Notes 1

Bookish News

‘We Wanted Our Patrons Back’ — Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity (NPR)

Worth Reading/Viewing

Sister act: how Little Women has come of age on the big screen (Aida Edemariam, The Guardian)

TV and Movie News

Beverly Jenkins Is Trailblazing Her Way onto Television (Book Riot) “Forbidden, the first novel in her Old West series, [has] been optioned by Sony Pictures Television in a first look deal via the Ripped Bodice partnership that was announced last year.” Jenkins writes wonderful historical romances featuring black and POC characters, and Forbidden is one of my favorites. I can’t wait to see this onscreen!
Clifford Starts a New TV Adventure. Clifford the Big Red Dog is coming back to the screen, this time on both Amazon Prime Video and PBS Kids. (Publishers Weekly)

2020 Reading Challenges

POPSUGAR 2020 Reading Challenge — 40 reading prompts plus 10 more “advanced” prompts, the latter all relating to 20 or 2020 in some way. And here’s a printable version of the prompts. There’s also a Goodreads group.
COYER Winter with Friends (Dec. 2019- March 2020) — Challenge yourself to clean out your e-reader by reading all those free and almost-free digital books/audiobooks you have stockpiled. Hosted by Michelle and Berls of Because Reading, and Stephanie from Once Upon a Chapter. They have a Facebook group for participants to interact.
Library Love Challenge 2020 hosted by Angel’s Guilty Pleasures & Books of My Heart. Want to make more use of the library in 2020? This challenge is for you.
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2020. I’ll be hosting this challenge again in 2020. Watch for the sign-up post, coming soon!

Awesome Lists

The 25 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2020 (Tor.com) They left off a few good ones, notably the next-in-series Wayward Children and Murderbot books. But it’s a good list, with some promise-to-be epic books on it: the start of an adult series by Sarah J. Maas, a new Victoria Schwab, the next Lady Astronaut book by Mary Robinette Kowal, a new series by Rebecca Roanhorse, and a lot more.

Bookish Quote

Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits

December 9th, 2019

My library did away with the fines too, and for the same reason. It makes sense.

I’ll be doing the POPSUGAR challenge again in 2020, and I might join your Backlist Reader challenge again this year too! Though if I do, I think I want to keep it to only physical books I own prior to the start of 2020. I want to make a dent in my physical TBR shelf.
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