Welcome to this week’s Three to Read, the three books we have hand selected for your reading lists over the next seven days. As the days grow shorter and we begin the descent into winter, we have just the books to brighten your day! This week, our picks will have you all settled down for after the Halloween rush. For our Hot Pick, we have the lyrical novel, Swing, by Kwame Alexander. Our Coffee Shop Read for this week is the new beloved children’s book Who Will I Be by Abby Huntsman. And our Dark Horse this time is the …
Most books fit into at least one category; romance, thriller, young adult, literary fiction, the list goes on. But every so often, a book comes along so original that it just defies categorization. The following books are celebrated for their trailblazing originality and you need to check them out. 1. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Image Via Amazon The entirety of Reynold’s novel Long Way Down takes place over one minute. In these sixty seconds, Will must decide whether he’s going to avenge his brother and shoot his killer. He has the opportunity to do so, but …
I’m going to open this article as if I was a podcast host, pausing the show for a “quick” shout out to their sponsor. In this scenario, please imagine the sponsor is raccoons. Hey guys, if you haven’t heard, raccoons are pretty great. They’re fuzzy, they have hands and most importantly, they love to read. I know when I’m suffering reader’s block, or any of the other challenges my crazy life throws at me, looking at pictures of raccoons reading books really helps me get back in the zone. And you too can get back in the zone! Now, the generous …
The Bookseller reports that a number of the world’s leading publishing houses and literary agencies, including Penguin Random House and Pan McMillan, have issued a warning about a recent influx of phishing scam emails, aiming to procure sensitive information such as “manuscripts, user IDs, passwords, social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, W-2s [US tax forms] and/or wire transfers”. Last Wednesday, just ahead of the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Penguin Random House issued a warning to staff, under the subject line “Important: New Phishing Alert”: We have recently seen an increase in attempts to steal our manuscripts. This has occurred …
Author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler, has recently published three collections of poetry through his once-off, independent publishing company Per Diem Press. The idea for the press came about as a result of the per diem payments accumulated by Handler while on the set of the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Handler did not spend the money he was given per day to cover expenses while on set, and so he decided to use what came to a significant amount, in order to publish an unknown poet. The competition ran last year, and …
