Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by HarperCollins. Night Film by Marisha Pessl for $1.99 11/22/63 by Stephen King for $2.99 Jackaby by William Ritter for $1.99 The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle for $1.99 The Collected Novels Volume Two by Alice Hoffman for $2.99 Uglies by Scott Westerfeld for $1.99 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for $4.99 (Don’t) Call Me Crazy edited by Kelly Jensen for $1....
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I know that there can be a dizzying amount of ornaments and decorations out there — Etsy is huge! So it can be hard to choose. But don’t worry. I’ve put together this list of 12 bookish ornaments that will make you say “Take my money!” so that you can fill your tree with as many book-inspired things as you want. Bookish Ornaments For This Holiday Season Let everyone know what you want for Christmas with this bright and cute bookish ornament....
Women make up nearly half of the workforce, but are still underrepresented in STEM fields (only 27% in 2019). It’s been found that girls and women are systematically tracked away from these fields. At high school graduation, equal numbers of boys and girls plan to pursue STEM fields, but fewer young women end up majoring in these fields during their first year of college. By graduation, men outnumber women in degrees in STEM fields, and this is further seen in graduate programs....
If there’s anything a bookworm loves more than books, it’s books on books. After all, we love talking about books and reading books, so why wouldn’t we want to read about books, too? I’m charmed by books like The Cat Who Saved Books and Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore set in bookshops. And few books have hit closer to my heart than The Sentence, set in a fictionalized version of author Louise Erdrich’s bookstore, or The Book Thief, about a girl who saves books from being burned in Nazi Germany....
The White Book by Han Kang is about death. Fortunately enough, I have never had to experience a friend’s death. Nor did I witness the enormity of the grief Kang talks about here. But when I chanced upon it, my friendship with my best friend of nine years was slowly dying. Kang wrote, “We lift our foot from the solid ground of all our life lived thus far, and take that perilous step out into the empty air....
But wait! You say you want more funny book titles? Here, have some cringey ones too. Alternately, take a look at these book titles ripped from the pages of previous works.
Between troublesome family secrets and old sibling rivalries, a family vacation becomes a boatload of trouble in this witty, insightful new novel from the author of The Intermission. Adrift together on the open seas, the Feldmans will each face the truths they’ve been ignoring—and learn that the people they once thought most likely to sink them are actually the ones who help them stay afloat. We have 5 copies of The Floating Feldmans by Elyssa Friedland to give away to 5 Riot readers!...
This reader’s horror story is sponsored by Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley. Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Legend has it that over a hundred years ago, the Devil himself attacked John’s town, leaving thirteen dead and the survivors terrified. Each year, the townspeople redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper but also through song, dance, and rituals, which keep the sheep safe from the Devil....
And Melvil Dewey was a dick. Dewey The Oppressionist Dewey’s original vision for libraries was just a titch dystopian. He felt that everybody had a place. Some people were great men (like him) and deserved a high place. Others were not great men, and they deserved a different category of place entirely. That was why they needed to be educated in good, Protestant morality. Then, they would understand that Dewey and people like him were elevated men, just like Jesus was an elevated man....
Things are changing, albeit at a glacial pace, with female creators, as well as their creations, refusing to stand aside or stay quiet any longer. All you need do is some surface research on ComicsGate or google “Chelsea Cain Vision Cancelled” to understand why we ladies (and all those who identify as non-men) still disgusted by large swaths of the industry and why we continue to clamor for “Higher, further, faster, more....
John Constantine, Hellblazer #3 Cover Date: March, 1988 Published by DC Comics Written by Jamie Delano Illustrated by John Ridgway What Happens in This Issue: It’s Election Day in the UK, and John Constantine is contacted by an old friend, Ray Monde, to investigate a series of strange yuppie deaths in Spitalfields. He discovers a group of trendy yuppie demons who are trading on the souls of yuppies who are so afraid of the election outcomes that they’ll do anything to ensure their continued success....
Members of the Oulipo, an experimental French group active since 1960, have famously used constrained writing in their work. “Oulipo” stands for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or “workshop of potential literature.” Oulipian writers have generally focused on using limitations to foster new creative possibilities. Of course, constrained writing doesn’t begin and end with the Oulipo. And you don’t have to be an official member of the group to use Oulipian techniques....
The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they’re found....
And so watch this: Rebecca and I are going to prove you can have a conversation on the internet about something you don’t agree on that doesn’t devolve into “your mom” comments and/or suggestions about where to ram things. At least I hope. So, let’s do this thing. GZ: Rebecca, one of your comments was that the novel felt “insubstantial.” I thought that was interesting, because that’s the exact word Keith Gessen used to describe an early draft of The Art of Fielding in his How A Book Is Born essay in Vanity Fair....
