Happy Friday, friends. My weekend includes making pizza, a birthday celebration, and deciding what to read next. I hope you have a wonderful weekend in store.
My favorite finds from around the web:
- Now available free to libraries without waitlists or holds: The Hate U Give & Me and White Supremacy. This is incredible!
- The novel frugality. Fascinating piece on frugality, American wastefulness, and hoarding.
- ‘If You Can Perform Whiteness, Then What Does It Mean to Be White?’ Great interview with Brit Bennett about The Vanishing Half, which I LOVED.
- These cheerful summer pajamas make me happy.
- 16 New Trader Joe’s Products You Probably Haven’t Seen Yet. I’ll be keeping an eye out for a few of these.
- My German is a little rusty, but I’m still swooning over the new German edition of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet, and I’m so enjoying seeing the different covers and titles for various countries. I loved this book. (Check out the American edition here, and the British edition here.)
- Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough. “And while black authors have always known the biases were there, #PublishingPaidMe showed just how dramatic their effects could be.”
- I thoroughly enjoyed chatting about overthinking, stress, and the body with Alisa on the Revelation Wellness podcast.
- An Anti-Racist Graphic Novel Reading List. Great list!
- Publishers Snap Up Corona Books, From Case Studies to Plague Poetry. Authors can write about whatever they want but I’m wondering if anyone is actually going to want to read these.
Don’t miss these posts:
- A to-do list trick. So simple yet such a game-changer.
- What’s your reading personality? When you’re aware of what and why you read, you get more out of your reading life.
Have a great weekend!
17 comments
Have the pajamas and love them!🍒🍒🍒
Loved 15 tips for beginning cooks. I wish there were 15 more!
Definitely passing on the Covid-19 books; I get enough of that in real life. I will be taking you up on the Trader Joe’s corn cookie mix, however. Yum!
I love that list of 15 cooking tips. Buying kitchen shears was for sure a game-changer.
I agree re: Covid books. No thanks, publishers. We’re living it, trying to survive it, and that’s enough!
I’ve been eyeing Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, but wondering if it was too depressing or difficult. I love historical fiction, especially set in the Medieval and Renaissance/Elizabethan time periods, and would love to hear more details from any and all who have read it…
If you loved The Vanishing Half, I URGE you to read Passing by Nella Larsen from 1929.
Thank you for the link on the racism related books available on Overdrive. That is amazing as those titles are so hard to find these days. Already downloaded them!
I’m excited to read Hamnet and was surprised it wasn’t included on the Summer Reading Guide!
Here is an interview with author Maggie O’Farrell on the Shakespeare’s Globe podcast, Such Stuff:
https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/05/05/such-stuff-s5-e5/
We just made the Trader Joe’s cornbread cookies for the third time!! Yummy!
I’m still desperately waiting for Trader Joe’s to come to Chattanooga….. I keep sending them notes on their website asking about this, but nothing yet. The nearest TJ’s is still about 2 hours away.
Loved the article on 15 things about cooking! Good tips there.
Have a wonderful weekend everybody!
I’ve been waiting impatiently for Hamnet to come out! For once, I love the U.S. edition better than the U.K. edition.
I so love your book recommendations!
On my Wisconsin Public Televison channel I recently watched a clip, of a young African American author who I thought very interesting. His name is Jason Reynolds and not only does he write, he works with many kids all over the country.Worth checking out!
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Childrens-African-American-Story/zgbs/books/3095
Some choices for African American kids or for kids who want to read stories that have African American main characters.
All children should read stories with African American main characters. Normalizing the lives of ‘others’ is a big step towards growing empathy for every kid. I love when childrens books feature POC living their regular life and that is not the point of the story. A picture book example: Oscar’s half birthday. For kids a bit older: Zoe and Sassafras
Love the 15 cooking tips! Some I’ve already managed to learn in my almost 60 years on this earth. Some new ones I will adopt. I’m forwarding to my two sons who enjoy cooking – if I do nothing else in this world at least I can pass on cooking tips. Ha.
I highly endorse your list-making tip, Anne, and thank you for sharing again.
An interesting article about Wallace Stegner. Crossing to Safety is forever on my TBR and still not read.
Thank you Anne for the link to the interview with Brit Bennett. I found this to be so informative and it really enhanced my reading experience of The Vanishing Half…which I absolutely loved!
Wow, great article about Brit Bennett, I can’t wait to read The Vanishing Half. This interview will really add to the depth of reading The Vanishing Half. I really enjoyed her first novel, The Mothers.
As always, I enjoy your links!