It’s a brand-new week of book news, booklovers! This week, get ready for us to spill some tea about what’s happening in the book world. We’re covering some developments in the HarperCollins strike, a huge donation made to a defunded library and even Elliot Page’s memoir! So, sit back and enjoy another exciting issue of The Pulse.
STANDOUT READS BOOKTRIB’S DISCUSSING
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami: “An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller, providing a look at the craft of writing, creativity, the novel’s role in culture, loneliness, patience and routine.”
Hell of Hosanna by Kip Langton: “A futuristic phenomenon comparable to the iconic works of Brave New World, 1984 and Citizen Kane, and reminiscent of the final scene of Planet of the Apes!”
Nad of Nadide by Wagih Abu-Rish: “A love story that unfolds amidst the complicated and sometimes dangerous mix of intrigue, diplomacy and cut-throat politics of 1981 Turkey.”
A Passion for More: Affairs that Make or Break Us by Susan Shapiro Barash: we have an eBook deal for this read! Click below:
MORE BOOKS TO BUZZ ABOUT
Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy) has announced the release date and cover for his upcoming memoir, Pageboy. The book’s release is scheduled for June 6, 2023. Check out the cover:
It’s the season of giving and Dolly Parton always provides! People Magazine reported that Dolly Parton has a new children’s book on the way, titled Dolly Parton’s Billy the Kid Makes It Big. It’ll hit the shelves next spring. 😊
In more exciting news, People Magazine reported that Sister Jean, the 103-year-old Catholic nun who became an icon as the chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball team, will tell her life story in a new book. Her memoir, Wake Up With Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years will release in 2023.
BOOKS-TO-SCREEN
For our books-to-screen enthusiasts, Deadline reported that Riley Keough will star in Hulu’s adaptation of the late Rebecca Godfrey’s Under the Bridge. If that’s not enough, Sologne Angelique Productions announced in a news release this week that Stacy Reid’s Sinful Wallflowers series of historical romance novels is headed to the small screen!
NOTABLE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS
The 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners have been revealed and, if you haven’t already, you have to see how many BookTrib’s editors picked right! Congratulations to all the winners for this monumental achievement.
MORE BOOK NEWS
We’re starting off strong this week with some gossip coming from the publishing world. 250 members of the HarperCollins union went on strike last month after contract negotiations between workers and the publisher failed. The union is demanding “higher pay, a greater commitment to diversifying staff and stronger union protection.” In support of this, author Monica Wood, known for her memoir, When We Were the Kennedys, has stopped working on her next novel, How To Read a Book.
In happier news, according to Bridge Michigan, Andy and Tracie Wierda — a Michigan couple — has donated $100,000 to a library that was defunded by voters after it refused to remove LGBTQ+ books from its shelves. In August, romance author Nora Roberts donated $50,000 to the library.
We’re back to reporting about book bans this week. *sigh* KUER-FM reported that a school district in Utah has decided to permanently ban 22 books from its libraries! The list of removed books includes Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir Gender Queer, George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue, Jonathan Evison’s Lawn Boy and Juno Dawson’s This Book Is Gay. The Utah list also includes all five books in Sarah J. Maas’ series, A Court of Thorns and Roses, as well as Ashley Hope Perez’s Out of Darkness, Lauren Myracle’s TTYL and Jennifer Niven’s Breathless.
On to something worth celebrating … The Library of Congress will celebrate Jason Reynolds’ (Long Way Down and All American Boys) tenure as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature with a closing celebration next week. The closing ceremony will be held on Dec. 13 and livestreamed on YouTube.
