Odds & Ends: May 19
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- A few Kindle deals of note: The Hazel Wood, by Melissa Albert; Novice, by Taran Matharu; The Kiss of Deception, by Mary E. Pearson; Love Letters to the Dead, by Ava Dellaira; We Are Still Tornadoes, by Michael Kun & Susan Mullen.
- At Bleeding Cool: A Hero Rises in Our First Look at Netflix’s ‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’. "In honor of She-Ra and Soft Wind’s 30-plus years galloping across the pop culture landscape, protecting the kingdom from evils far and wide, DreamWorks Animation Television and executive producers Noelle Stevenson and Chuck Austen are brin[g]ing the Princess of Power back — but this time, she’s not coming back alone." NOELLE STEVENSON OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!
- At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: School board member in O'Fallon, Ill., calls kids' book 'social indoctrination.' Parents want him out. "He questioned what was in the book that Springer objected to. "Civil Rights? Women's rights? Desegregation of schools? Are you kidding me? It's 2018," Roskos said."
- At Fierce: Latina Reads: 14 Dominican And Dominican-American Escritoras Whose Books You Need To Add To Your Reading List.
- At Abby the Librarian: #MiddleGradeMay: Be Prepared. "But camp is not at all what Vera expected. She's put into a tent with two girls who are best friends and who are much older than her. There's no running water, which means using a disgusting outhouse for two weeks, and Vera can't seem to do anything right. Having no friends at camp is even worse than having no friends at home because at home at least a bear's not going to eat you. And you have toilets." I've been wanting to read Be Prepared for ages now, but that paragraph just made me finally order a copy—because HOLY COW, that sounds pretty much EXACTLY what my one-and-only summer camp experience was like.
- At Kickstarter: The Future of Books is Female: The Second Shelf Quarterly. "The Second Shelf is a new quarterly print publication focused on increasing the visibility of women’s writing and contributions throughout history."
- At the Guardian: The next Elena Ferrante? The best European fiction coming your way. "Between 2001 and 2015, sales of translated fiction grew by 96%. One reason, argues Daniel Hahn, who last year established a prize for first translations, is that publishers seem to be taking more account of what people actually want to read. For a long time, he says, the emphasis was on “quite challenging, highbrow literary fiction,” which led to an unhelpful conflation of “difficult” with “translated”. Then Christoper MacLehose published Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which promptly sold 12,000 copies, in hardback."
- At Hyperallergic: Traces of Human Folly in the Alpine Landscapes that Inspired Frankenstein. ""Instead of retracing [Shelley’s] footsteps, I was using the themes in the novel, which are the fear of technology and what people will do that will come back to haunt us or come back to destroy us, to look at this contemporary landscape,” Dewe Mathews told Hyperallergic. “I was thinking about climate change and our effect on the glacial landscape, and also looking at that interior landscape of the bunkers as it’s the ultimate manifestation of the things that we have created in science that will have such immediately devastating effects if they’re put into use.""
- At Chowhound: Eat Like a Queen with These Absurd Royal Wedding Foods.
- At Geekologie: Finally, A Sequin Pillow That You Can Rub To Reveal Nicolas Cage's Creepy Face. I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE.
- At Twitter: