Adventures in Space


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Quirk Books considers some "fictional characters we'd want to write love letters to."
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"How other countries have translated The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’s absurdly long title" is explored by Slate.
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From Maus to Tamara Drewe, author Paul Gravett recommended "10 graphic novels everyone should read" for the Guardian.
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JSTOR Daily recalled the period "when Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot were penpals."
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Mental Floss reveals "16 facts about Christopher Pike's books."
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Based on "your perfect night in," Buzzfeed will tell you which "literature lady you are"--a Bennet girl or more Miss Havisham.
In 1818, when Mary Shelley was just 20 years old, the first edition of her novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was published anonymously in London. By the time Shelley's name appeared on a second edition in 1823, her work had polarized critics while achieving popular success. In a hint of things to come, Frankenstein was already being adapted into derivative works even during Shelley's lifetime, including a stage play she saw with her father, William Godwin, in 1823. In the 200 years since, Shelley's reanimated creature has become its own pop-culture monster, as much a product of film and TV depictions as the original novel.
Shelley's gothic/romantic/proto-science-fiction work originated in a contest among Mary, her future husband, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron to see who could write the best horror story. With Percy's encouragement, Mary expanded a potential short story inspired by a dream into a canonical work of speculative fiction.
In August 2017, Liveright published The New Annotated Frankenstein ($35, 9780871409492), which includes 200 illustrations, 1,000 contextual notes and an introduction by Guillermo del Toro. The Penguin Classics edition of Frankenstein, published in 2003, includes a scholarly introduction and "A Fragment" by Lord Byron, a predecessor of the modern vampire story created as part of the same writing contest that begot Frankenstein. --Tobias Mutter
Discover: In a near future when life expectancy is extended and optimized, a woman must consider the cost of immortality.
Discover: Samantha Hunt flips both language and reality on their heads in this slim novel about a young woman troubled by love, death and the sea.
Discover: A former mercenary and a jaded reporter team up to uncover the truth about a string of violent crimes connected to a complex, corrupt business empire.
Discover: In a chilling dystopia set in the foreseeable future, all American women and girls are restricted to speaking just 100 words each day.
Discover: Castillo's sympathetic and psychologically nuanced Marilyn Monroe bio is compulsively readable and well researched.
Discover: Historian Michael Pembroke's Korea: Where the American Century Began is an essential, relevant look at a mostly forgotten war.
Discover: A serial killer expert traces the most egregious murderers back to our earliest ancestors.
Discover: Environmental issues are broken down in human terms in this moving collection of essays.
Discover: A midsummer rehearsal dinner brings together two families in a charming Massachusetts garden, and each guest harbors a story.
Discover: New York journalist Anderson goes to Oklahoma City to cover the NBA's Thunder and comes away with a much bigger and funnier story of a city always "on the make."
Discover: A brief history of one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions--a 17th-century warship--recounted reverently by a Newbery Award-winning writer.
Discover: Twenty-one women, largely young adult novelists, use the election of Donald Trump as a springboard for writing essays about the experience of being marginalized.
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You'll Always Be My Chickadeeby Kate Hosford, illus. by Sarah Gonzales
Dear Reader, When I think back to my childhood in Vermont, I was often in the outdoors with my mom, identifying wildflowers and birds, swimming in rivers and exploring the woods. When I wrote this poem, I wanted to weave together the themes of outdoor exploration and parental devotion, assuring children that our love for them is as steadfast as the tallest tree and as boundless as the night sky. This book could be a gift for Mother’s Day or Graduation; no matter how far away our children fly, they will always be our chickadees. Kate Hosford |
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