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“In a future dystopia, Zia Alexander lives in crumbling ruins playing the world’s most illegal and addictive virtual reality game. After the loss of her mother, she plays the game for her shot at freedom. Zia discovers a map that leads to Lemuria—a real fantasy world full of dragons, wicked faeries and assassins where her mother is alive, and two princes try to win her heart.”
— Allie Michelle, Legends of Lemuria
Tagged: Shop Catalog, Books, novel, Legends of Lemuria, Fantasy
“Books: They can be short.”
— Condé Nast, KENZIE BRYANT, The Best Short Books to Read in 2023
Tagged: Books, short, List, Read
“From painstakingly researched biographies and histories charting the rise and fall of modern business empires to deep dives into the birth of influential gadgets, these are some of the best tech books to gift.”
— SIMON HILL, 20 Great Tech Books to Gift(or Keep for Yourself)
Tagged: Books, Gift, Tech, Technology, History, biography
“On Wednesday, during what the American Library Association has deemed Banned Books Week, more than a dozen best-selling authors, including Michael Connelly, Judy Blume and Nikki Grimes, said they are uniting to take a stand against censorship in the state's schools and libraries.”
— Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, Michael Connelly, Nikki Grimes, Judy Blume and other authors unite against book bans
Tagged: Books, Book Ban, Authors, library
“It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.”
— Stephen King, An Interview with Stephen King
Tagged: Stephen King, Writers, Writing, Books, Horror, How to be a writer, Artists, Art
“Sexy white men will always be forgiven. They don’t even have to apologize.”
— Ella Dawson, All The Fictional Sociopaths I’ve Loved
Tagged: Reading, Books, Love, crushes
“To Paradise plays on themes Yanagihara has touched on in her previous work—trauma; wealth and squalor; race; nationhood; and the righteousness of the powerful.”
— Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, The Author of A Little Life Has a New Book
Tagged: A Little Life, Books, Hanya Yanagiharas, To Paradise
“I actually love events, and I love speaking to people and especially love having the chance to hear from young readers—but a single event can take me days to recover from, even virtually and from the comfort of my home.”
— Kacen Callender, Social Media Expectations
Tagged: Books, Authors
“Remind yourself that you deserve to feel like someone is excited to be with you, that someone is excited to commit to you, and dive into something concrete and foundational with you.”
— Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder
Tagged: Poetry, Books, Relationship, Advice
“It seems that people don’t realize how much the stuff we read and watch shapes the way we see the world and the people in it, ourselves included.”
— NIC STONE, Don’t Just Read About Racism—Read Stories About Black People Living
Tagged: Read, Books, Black Lives Matter
“One could go so far as to say that 2020 was a terrible, horrible, very bad, no good year.”
— Brian Boone, The 10 Best Comedy Books of 2020
Tagged: Books, comedy, Read
“Wyatt Cenac hosts a night of readings about New York.”
— Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed News, Here Are Some Great Virtual Book Events Happening This Week: Nov. 30–Dec.6
Tagged: Books, Virtual Events
“Intuition can't be found in books.”
— Alma Wheatley, The Queen's Gambit, Limited Series: Middle Game
Tagged: Intuition, Books, Advice, wise
“There are plenty of books that run the gambit of the Latinx experience, whether by featuring gay and trans Latinx characters to those of different class statuses.”
— Izzie Ramirez, 9 Books That Will Make You Laugh, Swoon, and Cry—All Starring Latinx Characters
Tagged: Books, latinx, Reading
“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
— Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
Tagged: Books, beauty
“Once the pride of my childhood, my rainbow-organized bookshelves shelves have now become the perfect ice-breaker—and, inevitably, argument-starter.”
— Elena Nicolaou, Why I'm Never Getting Rid of My Color-Coded Bookshelves
Tagged: Color Coded Bookshelf, Books, Reading, Design
“I’ll never be able to get back the years I’ve now spent responding to an ex-boyfriend’s baseless legal assaults … instead of writing another book. That’s a loss I don’t know how to fully comprehend.”
— Emma Cline, Emma Cline was a literary darling, then a target. With 'Daddy,' she takes aim
Tagged: Emma Cline, Reading, Books, Daddy, The Girls
“It's Earth Day, but many of us are staying inside—it's good for all of us (and possibly for nature too), yet it means we can't freely enjoy the environment with our family and friends.”
— Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 Planet-Focused Books to Read This Earth Day
Tagged: earth day, Books, Climate, environment
“It was more important to her to be seen as an author than it was to be an author. She didn’t know how to be an author.”
— Byrd Leavell, Printing Clickbait
Tagged: Publishing, Caroline Calloway, Books, Reading
“The novel is set 64 years before the first Hunger Games novel, so way before Katniss Everdeen was born.”
— P. Claire Dodson, 'The Hunger Games' Doesn't Need A Prequel About President Snow
Tagged: The Hunger Games, Books

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