Citizen Reading: 17 July 2017.
17 July 2017
A weekly selection of reading and book news, sometimes with completely inappropriate commentary.
Still bereft over the loss of EarlyWord? This very handy list at The Millions of some of the biggest books coming in the second half of 2017 should help ease your pain just a bit.
This is a thoughtful article about how libraries and librarians are dealing with people suffering from the opioid epidemic--among other issues--and all librarians and library patrons should go read it.
Want your library's audiobooks, magazines, and ebooks all available in one place? There's an app for that!
Okay, the last time I read that a man "writes women as fully realized," the critics were talking about this shit book by Nickolas Butler. Maybe this Matthew Klam guy will be better. I certainly hope so. I can't believe it's 2017 and people can't stop falling all over themselves when a man seems somewhat able to write about women as--for Christ's sake--"fully realized" PEOPLE.
Oh, I'm sorry, was that out loud? I must have taken one of my angry pills this morning.
Buzz Books 2017: Romance Edition (from PublishersLunch).
Which country reads the most? This is a super-interesting infographic; go check it out. Then go read a book to help our numbers in the U.S.
Is Dr. Who the greatest superhero of all space and time? (Plus: the thirteenth doctor, just chosen, is a woman.)
How did the beloved children's book character Eloise come to be?
Coming this autumn (to the UK): Mr. Men books for grownups!
It's the bicentennial of Jane Austen's death this week (Tuesday the 18th, to be exact), so there are Austen Articles everywhere. Here's one on "the fifty shades of Mr. Darcy."
Related: This month's Jane Austen book group read (at the Guardian): Persuasion. Also: Will we ever get tired of Jane Austen? Seems not--here's three new books about her.
Biographer Kenneth Silverman: Obituary. Chinese author and Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo: Obituary.
Denis Johnson to be posthumously awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
James Grippando wins the Harper Lee Legal Fiction Award.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2017 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award winner (wow, that's a mouthful): Colm Toibin.
Even Dave Eggers is getting in on writing books for middle-schoolers!
Neil Patrick Harris is writing a children's book series.
Happy 200th birthday, Henry David Thoreau! (And here's a review of a new biography of the man in question.)
George R. R. Martin to adapt a different author's fantasy novel for HBO.
Zadie Smith is under contract to write her first historical fiction novel.
27 female authors who own SF and fantasy right now.
Netflix to make an adaptation of the cult graphic novel series The Umbrella Academy.
Middlemarch, the web series: Middlemarch "through a LGBTQ lens."
The "A Wrinkle in Time" adaptation: first still photographs. And: first trailer.
Starz has set a premiere date for season three of Outlander.
Game of Thrones: Ratings.
NONFICTION BOOK NEWS
A book of photographs of Michelle Obama will be published this fall.
"Political books and biographies are hot in 2017 so far."
Oh, good Lord, the story refuses to die. Milo Yiannopoulos's self-published book Dangerous has reached #3 on the USA Today bestseller list. (Although he may be inflating the sales figures. Huh. I'm shocked.) And: tee hee, here's the Digested Read of the book from The Guardian.
"A teacher, a student, a life-changing friendship"...and reading.
A new memoir about history and one journalist's search for the roots of her Latvian family.
Three books to help you take a deeper look at opioid addiction.
Attention all lovers of Brit TV: comedian Dawn French will publish her diary this fall (in the UK).
New York Times: a book of conversations with Bob Marley;a true crime procedural about an arsonist in Virginia; travel nonfiction from a British expat in Norway; on Jane Austen at home; a memoir by a woman whose family sold their Martha's Vineyard home to the new rich.
BOOK LISTS
Amazon: Best books of July.
Elle.com: Best books of 2017 (so far). I have a weak spot for this list because Jami Attenberg's book All Grown Up is on it, and I love people who love Jami Attenberg.
School Library Journal: Popular picks for July 2017.
3 romance heroines who "want it all."
Six baseball books for midseason reading.
What politicos are reading this summer.
Ten shows like Game of Thrones, only for teens.
MY READING NOTES
I was all over the place this week. I'll post about that on Wednesday.
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