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Have you already listened to La Traviata 15 times? Does your playlist crave fresh tunes? Time to hook you into yet another new genre! We have 50 more books on music right this way. If you have a chance to see some Chinese opera, don’t miss it, but if you’re not culturally Chinese, definitely have a gander at this work first so that you have some context. There are a lot of opera books that focus on Chinese theater, but many of them are actually written and published only in Chinese....

For one thing, w*ndigos aren’t even prevalent to every Native tribe out there, mainly to the tribes of the Northeast. They’re sacred to Algonquin and Anishinaabe tribes, part of their belief system and are something to be respected. They’re not cryptids or folklore to the tribes either. That would be like saying that the Christian idea of angels are cryptids, or saying the Bible or Qur’an are folklore. There’s another important reason that you shouldn’t be making movies or writing stories about them (and in some cases kinning with them) if you’re not part of the culture, and the reason I’ve been censoring the name in the article: these creatures are the embodiment of pure evil, to the point where you cannot even say the name of it....

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In the book, Sebold writes about how months after the attack, she was walking down the street and saw a Black man that she felt was her rapist. In the book, she writes about the encounter: “’Hey girl,” he said. ‘Don’t I know you from somewhere?’” She was sure it was him. Sebold went to the police but didn’t know the man’s name. One of the officers mentioned Broadwater had been in the area....

Some of these covers depict literal rainbow flags or images of the original flag design while others feature rainbow typography or vibrant hues, but each of them pays homage to the rainbow symbolism we’ve come to know and love. Soak them up and let these rainbow books brighten your day—and your bookshelves. Rainbow Books For Pride I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Starting this list off right with a rainbow explosion....

For fans of My (Not So) Perfect Life and Jasmine Guillory’s While We Were Dating, a disarmingly fun debut novel follows Carlisa Henton as her life comes undone after a chance meeting with a rising pop star. With fresh and honest prose, Good Morning, Love examines the uncertainty of being a new professional looking to chase a dream while also trying to survive in a world that’s not always kind to ambitious women....

Sheets by Brenna Thummler If you’re looking for an adorable graphic novel that has the same color scheme and tranquility as a Steven Universe episode, look no further. Sheets is a beautifully written and illustrated novel following a girl named Majorie who works at her family’s laundromat in a sleepy, autumnal town. One day, she happens upon an abandoned sheet that happens to be Wendell, a ghost who innocently haunts her family’s business....

Another Brooklyn was my first Woodson book. Within the first page, I was transfixed by the lyricism of her prose. Her sentences and her paragraphs had a rhythm to them. In this way, they carried me through the book, making it impossible to put down. “Our words had become a song we seemed to sing over and over again. When I grow up. When we go home. When we go outside....

In honor of hot summer days full of snacking, ice cream trucks, and picnics outside, here are some novels centered around food to pick up and devour. Who knows? It may inspire you to recreate some of the meals mentioned in these stories. With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo With the Fire on High‘s gorgeously illustrated cover is full delicious-looking fruits, and, you guessed it, the story also centers around cooking and trying new recipes!...

Lately, streaming services like Disney+ and others have gotten quite the inspiration from comic books. Not only have streaming services gotten into this habit, but movie creators have been using material from the stories of heroes and villains between the pages of a comic book for quite a while. I am extremely excited for some recent and and upcoming adaptations, from 2021 and now 2022, and I really wanted to share with my fellow comic lovers what I am most anticipating and that I recommend you watch, too....

Many bookstores are trying creative new things to try and stay afloat. For example, these five stores have created monthly book subscriptions or personalized care packages to drive online sales. From romance novels to diverse children’s books to literary fiction, one of the best things we can do right now are stay at home and read books. Here are five bookstores, fighting to stay alive by offering these new book buying options....

If you’re daydreaming of a tropical getaway (or need an engrossing read to pack in your suitcase), here are some of the best new summer books to transport you to the beach. Wondering what makes a book a beach read? Check out our beach read primer here and our picks for best beach reads of 2020. Following Omar’s death, Ama invites the three now-grown women to spend one last summer in Oak Bluffs, with the promise that she’ll share some answers and choose one of them to inherit the house by the end of the season....

Marigold from The Illustrated Mum By Jacqueline Wilson Complicated mothers are often condemned for acting out in the face of mental illness. Marigold from Jacqueline Wilson’s The Illustrated Mum suffered from bipolar disorder. Even though she loved her kids dearly, her impulsiveness and unpredictability often pushed them over the edges. Thus her boundless creativity and artistic inclinations were overshadowed by her unconventional parenting skills. However, Wilson was careful enough to portray her as a real person and not a case study....

This week we’re going to be time traveling with some hair-raising historical horror (say that three times fast, huh?). I love historical horror. It’s a sub-genre with unlimited potential. I know that, in some cases, there is definitely a certain aesthetic that pulls me in. You can sell me on any book that oozes gorgeous gothic architecture, Victorian velvets, and crumbling, haunted estates in the middle of wild, sweeping, isolated locals....

It’s because the “new normal” still isn’t normal. Because we hate it and FFS, we want our lives back. Because the math says it’s getting worse, not better, and even with new leadership in place, even with reasonable people and science at the helm, it’s still going to take time for our world to return for a modicum of rationality and order, and we still don’t have any sort of estimate as to when that might be… I write this not to wind anyone up, but to let you know I’m right there with you....

Though the genre’s content helps in fighting homophobia to some degree, it comes with a drawback. Personally, I’m not a fan of BL. I don’t hate it either, but I think it could be improved as majority of BL series being produced perpetuate problematic representations of LGBTQ characters and themes. What should and could be a thoughtful examination of the challenges faced by LGBTQ people are often nothing but superficial TV series that barely scratch the surface of the real problem....

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I’ve separated these books about unicorns loosely by age group, but does age really matter to unicorns? I will note that this book list turned out very white, almost entirely so. I spent days sifting through unicorn books and failed pretty hard when it came to locating more written by authors of color; perhaps it’s an issue of the specificity of the topic. Here’s hoping for more unicorn books from a wider array of voices in the future—because unicorns are for everyone....

Last year, Kindle Unlimited saved me. I chose to spend some money on this subscription and it paid off. I’m telling you — it’s worth it. I mainly read romance books and the selection in KU is huge. Like Clifford the Big Red Dog huge. It’s is also a very, very good selection. If you are a voracious reader and tend to spend a lot of money on books each year, this saves you a lot of cash....

As the genre’s popularity exploded, so did the diversity (for a given definition of the word) of romance titles. Sure, you had a whole lot of generic, samey-sounding titles — Love Confessions, Confessions of Love, Romantic Confessions, All Love, All Romance, Glamorous Romances, Young Love, Young Romance, etc. — as well as the occasional title that sounds promising but actually isn’t (Women in Love is NOT what you’re thinking). But then there are those that found their own little niche and just sat there....