Happy Friday Links

5-26-23

Happy Friday!

I hope you’ve got some fun plans for the upcoming holiday weekend. A friend texted yesterday saying she would be in town over the long weekend visiting her family (she lives in California), so we’ve made plans to get together, and I can’t wait. I’ve got some reading in my future for the weekend, along with working on next week’s newsletter and doing some website updates.

Here are a few links to ease you into your weekend:

• I loved the first movie, and I can’t wait to see the sequel. I wish these ladies were in my book club.

• I’m a “completist” when it comes to several authors, and J. Ryan Stradal is one of them. I enjoyed reading this article about his latest book.

• Some of these seem so obvious, but maybe not for everyone. Here is a hilarious list of things NOT to put into a Little Free Library.

• Keep this list handy for great bookish quotes.

• Fans of Dorthea Benton Frank were sad when she passed away in 2019. Her daughter Victoria heads to Sullivan’s Island with her first novel, My Magnolia Summer, and I can’t wait to read it. Check out this Charleston City Paper article to learn more about her and her book baby.

• Does it seem like the same words have been used repeatedly in all the book blurbs lately? Here is a BookRiot article that had me laughing out loud.

• The behind-the-scenes of the publishing industry have fascinated me for several years now. Here is a Crime Reads look at the life of a crime fiction editor.

• Pamela Lamp has a bi-weekly podcast, a blog, and a weekly newsletter called “Who I Met Today.” In last week’s newsletter, she introduced her readers to the Maze Man of Sunset Beach. What a fascinating story.

• The subject of “who gets to tell the story” has been up front in the book world for a couple of years now. R.F. Kuang, the author of Babel and Yellowface, talks to The Guardian about it and says that’s the wrong question to be asking.

• Here is the first trailer for the Apple TV+ adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry.

• What a unique way to travel across the country to celebrate an author’s latest book release. I missed it when she was in Dallas.

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What are your fun plans for the long weekend? I hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend, whatever you find yourself doing. Don’t forget to take a couple of beach reads to relax and pass the time with. Happy reading!