Summertime... and the Reading Is Easy




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Quirk Books investigated "female mystery authors who lived interesting lives themselves."
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Bustle shared "11 uplifting quotes from Anne of Green Gables that will help you get through the rest of 2018."
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"What it's like to stand inside a poem." Electric Lit explored "a digital storytelling experiment turns poetry into immersive art."
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"This guy turned his book collection into art and we are absolutely here for it," Buzzfeed reported.
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The remains of an ancient public library that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls was uncovered in Cologne, Germany, the Guardian reported.
Fifty years ago, the world of science-fiction cinema reached dazzling new heights with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Since the moment the monolith uplifted early man to an orchestral swell, then blasted off to the far-future via a bone toss, the genre has never been the same--with HAL's glowing menace and the trippy Star Child finale forever permeating pop culture. Though Kubrick directed and produced 2001, the screenplay was co-written with sci-fi superstar Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke and Kubrick also simultaneously wrote a novelized version of their story (though only Clarke's name appears as the author).
For those seeking more definitive answers to the film 2001's beautiful, intriguing, but sometimes opaque plot points, the novel version provides, and then some--2001 continues with a whole series of books: 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey. Clarke's original behind-the-scenes look at this dual-media franchise, The Lost Worlds of 2001, is currently out of print. However, on April 3, 2018, Simon & Schuster published Michael Benson's Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece. In 2016, Penguin Classics republished 2001: A Space Odyssey as part of its Penguin Galaxy series of sci-fi masterworks, which includes a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ($25, 9780143111573). --Tobias Mutter
Discover: In Caitlin Moran's follow-up to How to Build a Girl, music journalist Johanna Morrigan is finally getting famous; unfortunately, it's for starring in a sex tape.
Discover: A successful, British executive--a wife and mother--has her mind and soul metamorphosed into the family cat.
Discover: A visionary literary dystopia, An Ocean of Minutes will appeal to fans of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
Discover: Three children search for the truth about what happened to their mother after she disappeared three years earlier.
Discover: Two moms become best friends, but one of them is hiding a secret, violent past.
Discover: Three generations of women explore the secrets they've been hiding from each other as they spend a summer together on Martha's Vineyard.
Discover: The conclusion to Jules Feiffer's hardboiled trilogy is a political thriller about McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklist.
Discover: Adrienne Lindholm's luminous memoir chronicles the wonder and wildness of her two decades living in Alaska.
Discover: A thoughtful memoir about the complicated experience of being queer in the U.S. Army.
Discover: This wisely edited collection of Native poets helps redefine the canon of American poetry.
Discover: Swedish author Ulf Nilsson's Detective Gordon series delivers old-fashioned adventure with warmth and humor as the detectives take their most important case yet: finding Buffy's mother.
Discover: In this fantastical spin on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Thomas Fawkes is tested when he joins his father, Guy Fawkes, in a conspiracy to kill the King of England.