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Once I went through as I am adult I can watch whatever I want—and had to do the same to all the users on my Disney+ account—I realized what had happened: there was a section filled with new Marvel shows that had originally premiered on Netflix and they are labeled with the TV-MA content rating, meaning “Mature Audience Only.” A young kid could easily see the Marvel tag and start watching, for example, The Punisher which has sex & nudity, alcohol and drug use....

50 years ago, book fairs were a competitive business put on by a variety of companies and organizations. In 1981, Scholastic acquired California School Fairs. By the 1990s they had come out on top as the de facto school book fair provider Now, they host 120,000 fairs a year across the U.S. and 11,000 across Canada (at least, in years where these isn’t a global pandemic). Most schools have these fairs as a fundraising initiative for their school library, and they are usually arranged by the school librarian or the PTA....

From speculative fiction to mysteries to romance, series continue to be in high demand, so the good news is there’s a lot to choose from. Some have had remarkably long runs, too. If you’re looking for something to get truly, wholly lost in, here are a list of the longest book series of all. For the purposes of this list, I focused on length by number of novels. For even more incredibly long books to get you through winter, check out these longest young adult series and these must-read big books!...

Since the early 19th century, humanity has been fascinated by its own ability to move goalposts and demolish old boundaries in the dogged pursuit of progress. Our interpretation of that progress frequently shifts between cautious optimism and resignation toward our own doom, due to various social and political climate changes. But even at our most pessimistic, when we collectively felt as if we’d lost some great cosmic game, never, not once, have we ever stopped writing and reading new futures for ourselves....

So, as an experiment, I wanted to see how much overlap there is between The New York Times’s bestseller list and their Best Books of the Year list. I’ve just concentrated on the Fiction list, because tabulating through a year of weekly bestseller lists in one category was enough for me. I only considered books released in 2022, though Colleen Hoover’s backlist would have blown all these other books out of the water....

Today is the day you’ve been waiting for for years: Neil Gaiman’s first “adult novel” since Anansi Boys came out in 2006! How much you enjoy the new book will probably be related to how excited you are for its release. Every reader who is a huge fan of Gaiman’s work and has been counting the days since it was announced will think this book is amazing. Other people who are interested, but not enough to chase it down on the first day, will think it’s good....

Different companies have different shorthand for this (for example, where I got my start, they call it QC, for “quality control”), but it’s the same task regardless. You’ve heard of a proofreader, who works like a copyeditor to check for errors or general wonkiness in text, design, etc. Or maybe you’ve worked as a sensitivity reader and consulted with an editor and/or author on their manuscript, marking it up and making suggestions and corrections....

Woolf was correct, as usual. Our clothing can speak to who we are, who we want to be, and how we want to be perceived by the world. Indeed, Woolf is not the only writer to pay attention to attire: on the contrary, authors have been building character through their fashion choices since the dawn of literature. Take the heroine of L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle for instance, Valancy Stirling, starts out as a timid and browbeaten woman with one brown dress....

The winners were selected by a committee of industry voices: creators, librarians, publishing professionals, and retailers. This year, the results were announced during New York Comic Con. There are six categories of awards for works, as well as a hall of fame for creators. Without further adieu, let’s get into the best comics of 2020, according to the Harvey Awards! Book of the Year “Best long-form graphic novel or collection that demonstrating excellence in writing, art or cartooning showcasing great representation of the form....

Of course, my personal favorite tactic for fighting off stress and anxiety is reading. But your mileage may vary; many readers are having difficulty focusing or finding energy to pick up a book. Fellow contributor Sheila Loesch recently suggested tips for those struggling to read right now, including listening to audiobooks or podcasts. As for me, I’m finding great comfort in books with a guaranteed happy ending. Cozy mysteries, romance, and light-hearted essay collections all promise engaging stories that will leaving you feeling a little better than when you started....

“No one had a well-defined plan to send microfilm specialists to war when Franklin Roosevelt agreed to established the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (IDC). The agency initially struggled to gain traction. yet over the course of the war, the IDC developed an extensive operation to provide printed sources for intelligence purposes. As bookmen and women became intelligence agents, the ordinary activities of librarianship—acquisition, cataloguing, and reproduction—became fraught with mystery, uncertainty, and even danger....

Everything in the U.S. feels terrible and overwhelming and bigger than anything we can control, fix, or stop right now. And that’s why my rewatch of Veronica Mars season 1 felt so comforting. She was punishing people. Getting revenge. Making people pay for being awful and doing awful things. There was justice. Not always, but enough to feel cathartic. And then I was handed therapy Logan in the revival which had me wrap myself even tighter into my Veronica Mars comfort blanket....

Maybe you have a similar story: at some point, you lost control and the books took over. For me, it was combination of review copies and the remnants of a childhood seemingly spent mostly at Barnes & Noble that created a library that never seems to diminish even with occasional weeding. I enjoy having a lot of unread books around — but I also like feeling like I’ve made responsible choices occasionally and sometimes that money can be better used elsewhere, like buying new jeans every decade or so (ugh) or a lamp for my bedroom (boring)....

Many wonderful organizations were nominated, and five made the final cut. We reached out to all of the finalists, inviting them to mobilize their communities to support them in the vote, and by the time voting closed on December 5th, Housing Works had received the most votes. The Book Riot reader who first nominated Housing Works said, “…aside from having a crushworthy Tumblr- the work of the bookstore supports Housing Works in their efforts to both the homeless and AIDS crisis including providing employment and needed services....

title: “We Re Closed For Independence Day " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-10” author: “George Weatherspoon” via GIPHY

Milo & Ze: A Bull Terrier Puppy Adventure written by Mike Watson and Illustrated by Pablo Michau Milo’s a lonely, forgotten pooch who travels the world to find a friend. With beautiful illustrations and tons of adventure, this a great book for those who don’t mind a sad start when it leads to a happy ending. The Refuge written by Sandra le Guen, illustrated by Stephanie Nicolet, and translated by Daniel Hanh Not only is Iliana the new girl at school, but she also doesn’t speak the language....

Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information. Misinformation is not deliberate — you might see a tweet from a reliable source share something that has some of the facts wrong, but the intent behind it is not to do harm. It’s a mistake. An example might be a missing persons story wherein the individual has been reported found and the story is updated to reflect that…even though the individual was not, in fact, found....

Unfortunately for these censors, what they’re sharing and advocating fails to meet the definition of obscenity. Obscenity is a small subset of pornography. It’s outlined as follows in U.S. Federal Law on Obscenity: This week, the Epoch Times, a right-wing fake news site, posted about a rally “parents rights” activists planned to wage at Downers Grove North High School in Illinois. The call to action looked as follows: 2. Whether the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, finds that the matter depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way (i....

Famous last words. When lockdown hit, the library shut down for a few months. Can you guess where this is going? Flash forward to this year, when I finally tackled the towering piles of books in my own personal library. Behind a stack of reference books, I found two slim volumes that looked familiar. You can imagine my dismay when I realized that I had all but stolen two library books....

But how much of what we see in entertainment is actually true to the real life practice of law? As the child of lawyers, my parents would always say about legal based television shows and movies, “Oh that’s not how the law is actually practiced.” I talked with two attorneys, Colleen Gorman, assistant public defender for Cook County, and Wanda M. Morris, author of the forthcoming All Her Little Secrets, about what murder mysteries get wrong about the law....