Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 13, 2021
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New Releases Tuesday: The Books Out This Week Worthy of Your TBR!
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to...
Mirrors Tell the Truth, but Not the Whole Story
Mirror Window Years ago I wrote a poem, “Mirror Window.” The gist of it was that I kept mixing up the words, mirror and window; I...
“Ghost Forest” is A Fragmented Story About Family Separation
Near the end of Pik-Shuen Fung’s debut Ghost Forest, the narrator laments: “…I am overcome with envy for the people who live where they were born...
Incredibly Epic Fantasy Journeys for Every Reader
Listen, there are certain things that we, as fantasy lovers, have come to expect from the genre. I know I get a rush when I open...
Oral History Through the Ages
A few days ago, I was spending time with my mother and my aunt (paternal), when the latter told a story from when she was living...
8 Children’s Books With Indigenous Main Characters in Latin America
Do you know how many children’s books published in the U.S. feature Indigenous characters? The answer: not many. In a way it’s not surprising, considering how...
The Best New Manga and Light Novels to Pick Up in 2021
Wow, how about that last year and a half? It’s certainly been a ride. We relied on our Netflix subscriptions. We learned how to bake bread....
The Rise and Fall of the Western
What, exactly, is a western novel? Westerns loom large in the literary imagination, whether the word conjures up images of cowboys and gunslingers, a dusty saloon,...
The Joy of Reading About Cooking: Recent(ish) Non-Cookbook Books by Chefs
My husband is a chef, and he sits down and reads cookbooks like they’re narrative fiction. I love food too, and I love learning about the...
