Citizen Reading: 8 August 2016
08 August 2016
A weekly selection of reading and book news, sometimes with completely inappropriate commentary.
This is an appropriately named infographic, because I am totally in love with it: Grammar Is Hot.
Did you know that Game of Thrones (the book series) is twenty years old? (On that note: Another George R.R. Martin adaptation might be headed for TV.)
Are collections of advice columns a new genre? There's a new book out on the columns of Ask Polly (from New York magazine), who is actually Heather Havrilesky.
Jesmyn Ward gets an "NPR bump" for her newly edited book of essays; her memoir Men We Reaped gave me a lot to think about.
Costco's new "Pennie Pick" (named after their book buyer): is a memoir.
Here's a title custom-made for me.
"Novels of white status anxiety." Spoiler alert: none of them sound very exciting.
Because I love me a good TV trends headline: "old age romance trending on TV." In other TV news: August TV preview: new series premieres.
All politics are dead to me. But if you can still stand that sort of thing, a new book about Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine will be published in September.
Holds alert on a nonfiction title, Hillbilly Elegy. Looks like it could be good--I'm on hold for it.
Maria Popova writes on what Rebecca Solnit writes about books and reading. I love the headline: A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
Natalie Portman will star in the HBO miniseries adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler's novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
This is the best news I had all week: book readers live longer! I don't particularly want too much longevity myself, but it's comforting to know that as we age there'll be other readers around to age with!
Helen Fielding is going to write a new Bridget Jones novel.
Are you into audiobooks? Consider this audio freebie alert.
Oprah has spoken: check out her new 2.0 book club choice.
James Patterson's new imprint has already sold over a million copies.
Author James Alan McPherson has died.
Even TED is offering a summer reading list.
And here it is, your Obligatory Neil Gaiman link: Gaiman, Pullman Support Cover Kids Books campaign.