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Today’s edition of SFF Daily Deals is sponsored by Avon Books. 

Today’s edition of SFF Daily Deals is sponsored by Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes by M. R. Noble.

You might see that amazing cat-shaped tissue box holder and wonder what would lead me to look for a bookish tissue box holder. Clearly I was already the owner of the perfect tissue box holder! Indeed, I once thought like you. I had two grumpy old cats who would only sneer at the new tissue holder cat and everyone lived in harmony. Then we got Licorice Allsorts. She was quick to find every ribbon, whisker, and dangling spot on that poor tissue box holder....

Unparalleled research by historians and policy experts proves we are the root cause of the instability in many Latin American countries. Many right-wing pundits have said the instability has arisen in a vacuum. That is a fallacy. Vice News said it best when they said “Many historians and policy experts are quick to point out that much of the troubles in Central America were created or at least helped by the US’s interference in those countries going back decades....

But this year the Word of the Year is the pronoun “they”, commonly used as a personal pronoun by nonbinary folx*, myself included. Its usage as a singular gender-neutral pronoun dates back to the 13th century and has been in common usage since. And yet in recent years, this usage has been a matter of controversy fueled by transphobes hiding behind the nonsense cause of “correct grammar”. Against the backdrop of increasing virulent transphobia, this choice for Word of the Year is worth celebrating....

Waterstones Gower Street passed on the generosity by donating the money to BookTrust, the largest children’s reading charity in the UK. One of the programs they run is Bookstart, which provides free books to every kid in England and Wales. The replied saying that they “couldn’t be more touched” by the choice to donate the money from this “amazing letter” to them and that it will really make a difference....

via GIPHY According to publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Find Me is expected to hit shelves on October 29, 2019. The sequel will revisit young lovers Elio and Oliver, as well as prominently featuring Elio’s father. The publisher has given us a hint of what to expect in the new book: “In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father Samuel, now divorced, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist....

The books thing came as a bit of a surprise when I moved here. I knew that there are authors and publishers from countries all around the globe, and that some of the Australian authors I knew and loved as a child probably weren’t as big here. But I didn’t realise that a lot of British authors didn’t make it either. Australia was lucky enough to be kind of like the lovechild of America and Britain, so we were getting books from both countries as well as our own....

My daughter also wanted Sandra Boynton’s Snuggle Puppy! It features a mother dog and her pup making cookies together and bolstering one another’s self-esteem with lines like, “I like who you are and what you do, ooooo everything about you.” In addition, she expressed the need for Nancy Tafuri’s latest, All Kind of Kisses, which is set in a barnyard, like so many children’s books are. Why? Hardly any of us have seen a barnyard....

I miss cons. I’m sure we all do at this point. But I’ve been living vicariously through a few people who are living their best lives at the fake or real cons of their choice, and realized there are a bunch of books that I’ve really liked that take place at cons or have a strong con component. And because I’m me, they’ve all had at least a little bit of love....

The concept of the “Indian du jour,” has been a serious problem for contemporary Native literature. Tokenizing one author not only creates abusive power dynamics, but also skews the field. This longer post is a starting point for recognizing the diversity of contemporary Native literature. It is not meant to be authoritative, but rather a jumping off point for different genres, styles, and movements within present day Native writing....

“Sourdough” was one of the biggest buzzwords of early COVID-19 quarantine, up there with anxiety-relieving distractions like puzzles, virtual happy hours, and Tiger King. As a home baker with a lot of stress and nowhere to go, I quickly jumped onboard last March, creating my own starter from scratch and diving into the world of naturally yeasted breads. I watched countless YouTube videos, perused old cookbooks, and googled things like “why does my sourdough starter smell like beer” for months as I tried to master the ancient art....

I have been anxiously awaiting this book for years, because her first novel is one of my favorite books of all time! It’s called Zazen, and it is a cutting near-future satire about a city where a mad bomber is blowing up corporations while the population slides further into apathy and disillusionment. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. It was my bestselling handsell in 2011 when I worked at a bookstore....

“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.” You just know there was some scribe in 1436 sitting around saying how moveable type made printing too easy and how we were gonna all lose the sense of wonder and magic and a bunch of other baselessly romantic doom and gloom about crap they knew nothing about....

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell in this sequel to Ninth House, the smash bestseller by Leigh Bardugo. Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters. Indeed. Yes, join us horror enthusiasts under these cobwebbed, dusty alcoves. Horror and dark academia know each other quite well....

13 young adult authors… 13 heart-stopping tales… This collection will “delight longtime Poe fans just as much as readers who haven’t read the classics” (Beth Revis). When he was 20 years old, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) wrote “Alone,” considered by esteemed Poe scholars as one of his greatest poems. “Alone” is the most personally revealing of all Poe’s poetry: it conveys the alienation Poe experienced from society and from his friends, his preoccupation with death and the superstitious, Poe’s sadness at the extremities of his life, and the sorrowful realization that he is incapable of change: his destiny was seen in the heavens above....

For the uninitiated, Demon Slayer is a manga series that follows Tanjiro, a 13-year-old living in early 1900s Japan. After his father passes away, he helps support his mother and many siblings by selling charcoal to other villagers. But one day, he spends the night away from home and returns to find his family massacred and his sister, Nezuko, turned into a demon. He comes across a Demon Slayer and sets out to become one with the hopes of curing his sister....

This post originally ran October 1, 2014. _________________________ I told everyone I knew that I thought Alexander Siddig would be perfect for the role of Doran Martell in the upcoming season of Game of Thrones, and when it was announced that he’d been cast, well, let’s just say I was a little bit smug. But nicely smug. Mostly excited. It got me thinking, though: What if I put some more of my casting wishes out into the universe?...