Meg Wolitzer and Nicole Kidman. You can't beat THAT combination...

Nicole Kidman will star in the adaptation of The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer. Wlitzer is the best-selling author of The Interestings.
Read the article here from Entertainment Weekly!



What's it about?

A shy college freshman finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned at the side of her boyfriend.
Reserve your copy here. 

Other Wolitzer titles can be found here. 

Join us at the Wednesday Afternoon Book Discussion on May 2nd at 2:30pm...

as we discuss, "Lucky Boy" by Shanthi Sekaran.  Shanthi will Skype in with us, so don't miss it! Copies at the Circulation Desk.

Shanthi Sekaran gives voice to the devotion and anguish of motherhood through two women bound together by their love for one boy. Soli, a young undocumented Mexican woman in Berkeley, CA, finds that motherhood offers her an identity in a world where she's otherwise invisible.  From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon Valley, Lucky Boy offers a moving and revelatory look at the evolving landscape of the American dream and the ever-changing borders of love.

The Great American Read featuring 100 titles kicks off May 22nd at 8pm on CBS!

ONE HUNDRED TITLES! This is the list of America’s 100 most-loved books brought to you by The Great American Read.

The website says, "THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels (as chosen in a national survey).  It investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these 100 different books have to say about our diverse nation and our shared human experience.  

The television series features entertaining and informative documentary segments, with compelling testimonials from celebrities, authors, notable Americans and book lovers across the country. It is comprised of a two-hour launch episode in which the list of 100 books is revealed, five one-hour theme episodes that examine concepts common to groups of books on the list, and a finale, in which the results are announced of a nationwide vote to choose America’s best-loved book.  It's designed to get the country reading and passionately talking about books."
I won't show you all 100, but here's a sample:


 

Start reading now...!

Love Gillian Flynn? Here's a movie trailer for her terrific book, "Sharp Objects"...

‘Sharp Objects’ Trailer Gives A Chilling First Look At Amy Adams In HBO Adaptation Of Gillian Flynn Novel 

Here's the trailer from HBO!

Click here for the full cast this 8-part HBO series. 

Spoiler: Amy Adams, Patricia Carlson and Chris Messina

    

Produced by my favorite power house of suspense and horror production company: Blumhouse!

Reserve Sharp Objects here.

The world celebrates William Shakespeare's birthday today...

Well, we certainly have plenty of his work, but we also have these modern updates: 

         
Jane Smiley earned the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for her reboot of King Lear in, A Thousand Acres. 
David Wrobleswski earned a bestseller spot for his take on Hamlet with The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. 
And this month Jo Nesbo gives it a go with Macbeth. 
Try them!


A timely reminder. 

Chinese Sci-Fi trilogy may hit the Amazon screen...

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 

is the first book in the 

Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. 

For this initial title, Liu Cixin became the first Chinese author to ever be awarded 

the Hugo Award for best novel.

Read more about the Amazon plan 

for this series right here. 

Place your holds here for each book:

The Three-Body Problem

The Dark Forest

Death's End

Worth a look. There's a reason this trilogy

 has millions of fans across 

China and the globe. 

Yes, even here in Merrick. 

I'll Be Gone in the Dark docu-series picked up by HBO...

Michelle McNamara's 

stunning and chilling true-crime thriller 

will get the documentary series treatment 

via HBO. 

McNamara's book follows the awful and unsolved Golden State Killer case. 

Read the link here. 

Gillian Flynn penned the introduction to the book. 
Patton Oswalt wrote the afterword and 

will produce the series. 

McNamara (who was married to Oswalt) died before she could finish the book, 

but her lead researcher was one of the two people who were able to complete the project.

Reserve "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" here.  

2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners are....

  
 
 These are the 2018 Winners!
Click here to see every Fiction winner of the Pulitzer Prize!

JK Rowling has finished the next Cormoran Strike novel!

Lethal White is the fourth Cormoran Strike novel to be written under Rowling's pseudonym, Robert Galbraith.
See Rowling's twitter announcement here!
The first three books have already been adapted by the BBC so we have that to look forward to in June. 

Here are the three previous titles--

get your library cards ready!

Cuckoo's Calling

The Silkworm

Career of Evil

Below is the cast of the BBC production starring Holliday Grainer and Tom Burke. CB Strike will be aired on Cinemax in June 2018. 

Our next book discussion will include an author Skype!

Join us Wednesday, May 2nd at 2:30 

as we discuss, 

"Lucky Boy" by Shanthi Sekaran.

Shanthi will Skype in to the discussion 

and we are so grateful!

See you then!

What to read next?

My suggestion is 

"Lucky Boy" by Shanthi Sekaran. 

It's the story of an undocumented Mexican single mom and Indian-American chef who are bound together by one lucky boy. 

This is a gripping and timely tale that you 

won't want to miss.

The Wednesday Afternoon Book Discussion is thrilled to have author Shanthi Sekaran Skype in for our discussion on Wednesday, May 2nd at 2:30. You won't want to miss this one.

Novels that offer a new perspective of our world...

Our friends at Off the Shelf have compiled this great list of historical fiction titles that offer new perspectives of our world. See the article here.
Place your holds here!
Here's a sample:
  
These are worth considering as well:
   
 Order them here...!

2018 Hugo Award Finalists!

What's a Hugo Award?
The Hugo Awards, first presented in 1953 and presented annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. 

                              2018 Hugo Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi (Tor)
• New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
• Provenance, by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
• Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
• Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty (Orbit)
• The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)

Best Novella

• All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
• “And Then There Were (N-One),” by Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny, March/April 2017)
• Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Black Tides of Heaven, by JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Story

• “Carnival Nine,” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2017)
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand,” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny, September 2017)
• “Fandom for Robots,” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny, September/October 2017)
• “The Martian Obelisk,” by Linda Nagata (Tor.com, July 19, 2017)
• “Sun, Moon, Dust” by Ursula Vernon, (Uncanny, May/June 2017)
• “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience™,” by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex, August 2017)

Best Graphic Story

• Black Bolt, Volume 1: Hard Time, written by Saladin Ahmed, illustrated by Christian Ward, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Marvel)
• Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine De Landro and Taki Soma, colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick, lettered by Clayton Cowles (Image Comics)
• Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood, written by Marjorie M. Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
• My Favorite Thing is Monsters, written and illustrated by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• Paper Girls, Volume 3, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (Image Comics)
• Saga, Volume 7, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form

• Blade Runner 2049, written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Alcon Entertainment / Bud Yorkin Productions / Torridon Films / Columbia Pictures)
• Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele (Blumhouse Productions / Monkeypaw Productions / QC Entertainment)
• The Shape of Water, written by Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, directed by Guillermo del Toro (TSG Entertainment / Double Dare You / Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi, written and directed by Rian Johnson (Lucasfilm, Ltd.)
• Thor: Ragnarok, written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost; directed by Taika Waititi (Marvel Studios)
• Wonder Woman, screenplay by Allan Heinberg, story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs, directed by Patty Jenkins (DC Films / Warner Brothers)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form

• Black Mirror: “USS Callister,” written by William Bridges and Charlie Brooker, directed by Toby Haynes (House of Tomorrow)
• “The Deep” [song], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes)
• Doctor Who: “Twice Upon a Time,” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay (BBC Cymru Wales)
• The Good Place: “Michael’s Gambit,” written and directed by Michael Schur (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television)
• The Good Place: “The Trolley Problem,” written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, directed by Dean Holland (Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment / Universal Television)
• Star Trek: Discovery: “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,” written by Aron Eli Coleite & Jesse Alexander, directed by David M. Barrett (CBS Television Studios)

Get started here folks! 

Kenneth Branagh to star and produce "A Gentleman from Moscow"...

Well this news made ME sit up and pay attention!
An Entertainment One TV production, there's no word on when production will begin, but it seems things are in motion. Here are some links to find out more:
From Variety
From The Hollywood Reporter
From Deadline
Reserve the book here. 

 

Deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.


I'd also love to see this book get the Wes Anderson treatment.