News & Notes – 11/18/2023

November 18, 2023 News & Notes 3


News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff

Bookish News

*NOTE: I usually pull together an obituary and provide several links, but I don’t have time this week.

Worth Reading/Viewing

Free Fiction Online

  • “Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale” (Kathleen Jennings, Tor.com) This is really more of a poem than a story, but as an aspiring writer, I loved the way it looks at a myriad of ways to retell and play with fairytales… and they way the poem itself plays with words, with images, with bits and pieces of familiar tales.

Books, Movies, and TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHb7au6Gmls

Cool, Fun, and Awesome

  • Gift Guide 2023: Bookish Personalized Gifts! Customizable book stack mugs and posters, library stamps, and even miniature book collections. (Collected by SBTB. Make sure you read the comments; there are a few more good suggestions there.)

3 Responses to “News & Notes – 11/18/2023”

  1. Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits

    Customizable bookish gifts? That sounds fun!

    And the Goodreads Choice Awards just made me mad this year. I had noticed that the MG and graphic novel categories were gone, but in my anger over those I missed that they also got rid of poetry. I’m even more convinced that leaving GR entirely is what I want to do now, but I know reviews there still help the authors. So… I’ll keep leaving reviews. But I really dislike what that site has become.
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    • Lark_Bookwyrm

      Also, the books in the Goodreads Choice Romance category are incredibly white and hetero this year (with a very few exceptions.) And there wasn’t a single historical on the list. I suspect both are a direct result of BookTok’s influence. The books I’m seeing on Instagram from the romance accounts I follow are more diverse in terms of subgenre as well as main character demographics.