For the love of books
Image via BBC A primary school in Somerset has launched its own version of the classic Panini World Cup sticker book. Interestingly, not only the pupils but the teachers joined in this process of book-making and all the 576 players in the official album have been drawn by pupils at the Flax Bourton Primary School. Image via North Somerset times This “World Cup Sticker …
Do you like medieval folklores? Here’s an upcoming series－The Letter for the King－which is about a teenage boy and his medieval adventure! The story is based on Dutch writer Tonke Dragt’s De brief voor de Koning or The Letter for the King. The classic novel was originally published in 1962 and has been translated into 25 languages; it was also chosen as the best Dutch youth book of the latter half of the twentieth century. Image via The Independent The story pivots around a sixteen-year-old Tiuri’s adventure in a fictional medieval world. As a squire, Tiuri spends most of …
Do you like to read Asian American writing? If you do, YES, you are with me now! If you don’t, OK, this booklist will totally change your vision and life. Three red-letter Asian American writers and their books: Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki Images via Smith College and Goodreads Ruth Ozeki is a Canadian-American novelist, filmmaker, and Zen priest. Before her writing career, Ozeki had worked in the TV industry for ten years and produced a documentary Halving the Bones (1995). This working experience as …
A memorial service will be held this week for Carol McNeal, a bookstore owner who died on May 26 at the age of 86. McNeal was the owner of Carol’s Books & Things, a place described as a “library of the black experience and a bridge across the racial divide,” according to the Sacramento Bee. McNeal had a passion for reading and sought to bring the experience of African Americans to light, her daughter Melba Whitaker said. McNeal told the Sacramento Bee that one of McNeal’s favorite day trips had been driving to the nation’s oldest African-American bookstore, Marcus Books, in San Francisco’s Fillmore …
Since 1983, Sabrina Spellman has been a familiar name for the comic-book-lovers in the United States. Originally served as the leading character in the the comic book series Sabrina the Teenage Witch published by Archie Comics, Sabrina’s stories of learning to be a teenage magic girl have been adapted into TV series in 1970. Now, forty years later, SHE IS COMING BACK TO US! The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the forthcoming Netflix show, launched its latest poster! With Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men and Feud: Bette and Joan) and Ross Lynch (Austin & Ally and Teen Beach Movie) leading the cast, the TV series has already booked two seasons with twenty episodes. …
