The Best New Books Out This Week
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The Best New Releases Out Today
We’ve made it to the middle of June, and this week, if you’re in the northern hemisphere, you’ll see the longest day of the year. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, well, you’ll get the longest night of the year. What that means, of course, is that in either case, you’ve got a perfect excuse to get your read on. This week, dive into a book about the very human feelings related to our changing environment, explore Toni Morrison’s life as an editor, dip into some cosmic horror, and more.
All the Latest IMLS and Legislation Updates
There’s a lot going on in the world right now (I mean, did any of us have “escaped zebra in Tennessee gets airlifted back to captivity” on our bingo cards?), so let’s take a minute and recap what’s been happening with IMLS and library legislation.
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Bookish Barware for Your Next Book Club Meeting
The running joke about book clubs being primarily to schmooze and booze it up may not be entirely accurate, but that doesn’t mean you can’t — or shouldn’t — turn each meeting into a mini party. I have got some great pieces of bookish barware for you to check out.
My Introduction to a Literary Phenom
It wasn’t until I picked up the book I’m recommending here that I received my introduction to this author’s smart and propulsive storytelling. It isn’t often that you see an author go from successfully penning a few truly dark fantasy novels to successfully penning a juicy, scathing contemporary fiction novel. As a historically heavy reader of science fiction and fantasy, it felt almost sacrilegious to pick up the fiction before the fantasy, but at the time I really needed something more deviously delicious than truly grimdark.
Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen: 5 Great Fantasy Books with Gods
below you’ll find five great fantasy books that feature gods in some way. Most likely in a diminished capacity, because humans wiped them out, or they killed each other off, or they just said, “Enough of this. Laterz!” and left. But that doesn’t mean they’re not still watching.
