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My favorite books are usually funny and romantic contemporaries, as well as cinematically inclined fantasies with magical characters and worlds. And while in all honesty I spend more time lost between the pages of good books rather than flipping through television and streaming services, I’ve read eight books recently that I feel would make amazing movies or television shows. With that said, I am not only recommending all of you to read them ASAP, but I am also hoping Hollywood takes note and makes these some sort of cinematic or television event....

I’ve been thinking a lot about that the feeling getting a new book gives me: it’s a feeling of openness and space. I’ve bought myself potential. This is a book that won’t just give me hours of entertainment and absorption, but it will become a part of my brain, it will take its place next to all the other books I’ve read, on my shelf and in my mind. It will become part of me....

Since AITA already strains credibility at some points, it seemed natural to bring this into the world of the fictional. We’ve all read books with real asshole characters, or even stories where ESH. So we’ve decided to imagine what those characters (or characters who aren’t sure if they’re the asshole) would write about their situations on Reddit. Plus, this way you get to read about outrageous situations without worrying about any real-life people involved!...

The Early Days of Scrabble Scrabble arose in the wake of the crossword puzzle craze of the 1920s. If you were ever unsure that history repeats itself, here’s an example. There were people wringing their hands about crossword puzzles being the downfall of society 100 years ago. You can read about that quaint time in the delightful crossword history Thinking Inside the Box. Scrabble itself took off in the 1950s, and its relationship to crosswords is apparent not just in the conceit of intersecting words but in the game board itself, a 15×15 grid....

These comics allow everybody in. Reading is hard. Books are hard. We ask a lot from kids, and comics give them a little something back. They allow readers to find themselves visually represented in stories that never had that sort of representation to begin with. They allow readers to find a little toehold in an imaginative world that maybe intimidated the heck out of them before. And they also make classics – those often dry, dull and all too often chosen by white men with Very Particular Cultural Leanings – seem applicable to their everyday lives....

U: Undercut V: Violin W: Watercolor X: X-RAY Y: Yakitori Z: Zoomorphic Hey, look at us! We made it through another round of A–Z! Where to next? Villains? Cities? Food? If you have any topics you’d like to see me have a go at, drop your suggestions @BookRiot on Twitter! Momo is not one of them. No matter how hard he tries to convince you. Yeah, it’s that kind of comic....

In addition to the much-discussed $1,400 stimulus checks, the $1.9 trillion legislation includes a variety of funds to support states, vaccine distribution, small businesses, and importantly, libraries. ARPA allocates $200 million to the Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS), an independent federal agency that provides library and museum grants, policy development, and research. Additionally, public, academic, and school libraries are eligible for billions of relief dollars to meet critical public needs....

Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don’t. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching Don’t. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge Do. No matter what. But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there’s always someone else who knows to follow the rules. . .

The planet is running out of time—and there is no Planet B. Max Einstein and her friends are World Champions in this newest adventure, where they: GET OUTDOORS - From racing across glaciers in Greenland to visiting the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia, twelve-year-old genius Max and her friends live for adventure. TAKE ACTION- Whenever there’s a problem to solve, the kids work better together! NEVER GIVE UP-Max has one more surprise in her playbook, and if she’s going to pull it off, she needs her team....

Sometimes working full time or taking care of a family makes it harder to get into the Halloween spirit. I love comics and audiobooks and even podcasts full of scares to get me in the monster mood. Comics and graphic novels are great to read during my lunch break or for 15 minutes before bed. I fall asleep with the images seared into my brain, gorgeous and gruesome in equal measure....

Dear Yaqui Indian Boy I stayed fixed on you, your brown eyes, your mouth as you advanced on me, who’d never had a boy walk to her before. Not in that way, to choose me. Dear Risk Taker No one wants to hear about the congenital melancholy that gnaws at the soul of a teenage girl, and there was no one for me to tell. Skulking through life as a loser was oddly shaming though, and has continued to train me through realities that flat out contradicted it....

I’m not quite cut out for tackling all of U.S. publishing’s problems, but please do allow me to take this opportunity to tell you about the problem with “manga-inspired”… clears throat It means absolutely nothing! The term, in fact, tells me both everything I need to know, and nothing that I want to know. What I need to know is that whatever this comic is that is labeled “manga-inspired” is not worth my time....

I had expected a sense of culture shock, and Japan met that expectation immediately. The difference in language and expression, culture and lifestyle, are a world away from my life in London. The Japanese people were extremely kind, polite and friendly; they were full of heart and helped us constantly when we were a bit lost or confused. Culture shock fades pretty quickly, and after just a day I wanted to get into some bookshops and dig through the (gorgeous) Japanese books I’ve heard so much about....

There are some absolutely stunning handmade dragon journals that will make your wallet weep — but I’ve also included some more budget-friendly options. If you’re a fantasy fan, there’s nothing quite like a dragon. It’s the symbol of escaping into another world and going on grand adventures, synonymous with grand fantasy adventures. If looking at all these beautiful dragon reading accessories is getting you itching for a dragon-centric book, we have you covered — for every age range!...

Ocean-focused horror is often less about the water itself and more about the unknown. The depths that are unexplored and the creatures lurking there. Things with teeth and spikes and appetites. Each year, we find newer and stranger sea-dwellers than any we’ve discovered before. Just this year, scientists have found a type of comb jelly that looks like a hot air balloon and this giant thing that looks like silly string and may be the longest animal recorded to date....

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Friends, I found it so dull that I had to go to the Wikipedia page to find out what on earth the book was about. My reaction was sadly not filmed, but I like to believe I stood up in shock, knocking over my chair, and screamed, “It’s got TIME TRAVEL?” To this day, all that I am certain I know about Outlander is summed up above. (I am also pretty sure the main characters are named Claire and Jamie....

A slow-burn romance in a cutthroat kitchen! There’s more to becoming a top chef for 17-year-old Isabella Fields than just not getting chopped … especially when the chances of things heating up with an intriguing boy and becoming a food star in the kitchen are both on the chopping block. Aspiring chef Isa’s family life has fallen apart after the death of her Cuban abuela and the divorce of her parents....

Green Lantern has always been a…complicated franchise when it comes to race. On the one hand, it is the home of DC’s first African American superhero, John Stewart, and the source of the most well-known anti-racist panels in comic book history. On the other hand, not only has the franchise made severe missteps over the decades, it remains spearheaded by Hal Jordan, an iconically conservative character with an infamously reactionary fanbase....

Clueless (1995) is that classic romantic comedy we so much can’t help but rewatch every time it’s on TV. And it’s based on Emma. Emma is about a young woman who is fueled by her matchmaking successes that she decides to do it more. Her childhood best friend (with whom she banters nonstop) doesn’t think it is such a good idea, but he is madly in love with her so he’s there to support her even if she fails....