For the love of books
Redemption arcs in fiction usually go one of two ways: either the character in question realizes how horrible they’ve been and makes up for their actions with good deeds (usually by helping the hero with their endeavors), OR they regret all the horrible things they’ve done and are immediately killed off right after that. Sadly, the second path is seen more often than the first, and it’s not a very good arc at all.
I think we can all agree that 2020 was nothing but news. Books and the publishing industries were no exception to this. Some news were great, some of them bad, some others were just unexpected. If you missed any of them on the whirlwind that was 2020, here is a quick recap of the biggest literary news of the year.
NetGalley, a site where book reviewers and other professional readers can request, read, and recommend books before they are published, suffered a breach in their security. The hackers defaced the NetGalley homepage and might’ve made a backup copy of the NetGalley database. NetGalley sent out this email to their members (the people who might’ve been affected by the breach) on the afternoon of December 23rd: Dear NetGalley Member, It is with great regret that we inform you that on Monday, December 21, 2020 NetGalley was the victim of a data security incident. What initially seemed like a simple defacement of …
The season finale of the Mandalorian was action-packed, shocking, and very emotional, so here are 5 books, comics, and mangas to fill the hole in our hearts until the series returns.
Hello again, book-reading fam! Hopefully you caught our favorite books of the year list, and if you did, you are probably wondering what are we looking forward to reading next year …
