{The Sunday Post} Bookish News + Links

In The News

This Saturday, November 31st, (as part of Small Business Saturday) will be the "Indies First" movement, in which many of your favorite authors will become booksellers for a day at more than 400 indie bookstores across the U.S.

Google Maps has created an interactive tour of Middle-Earth!

On YouTube

Check out this English trailer for the last film Hayao Miyazaki will be releasing before his retirement, The Wind Rises.

Improv Everywhere tackles Harry Potter In Real Life, in which a young boy wanders around Penn Station, trying to find Platform 9 ¾.

Around The Blogosphere

Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner writes about having to answer the age-old question, "What do you like to read?"

YASeriesInsiders.com has launched, and they're hosting a giveaway for over $1,000 worth of signed YA novels and book-related swag.

Bookish Lists

5 Books To Read Before Your Trip To France - The Barnes & Noble Book Blog
10 Things You Might Not Know About Maruice Sendak - mental_floss
10 Revolutionary Reads That Changed History - Whizzpast
12 Thanksgiving Recipes From Our Favorite Authors - The Airship
50 Books That Define The Past 5 Years In Literature - Flavorwire

This Week's Interesting Releases

   

   

What's New On My Bookshelf

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Angelfall by Susan Ee

World After by Susan Ee

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

I purchased the first three books during a trip to Barnes & Noble, and the last three from Amazon. If there were any indie bookstores where I live, I would support them instead, but alas, B&N and Amazon are really my only options other than garage sales.

   

The Language of Sparrows by Rachel Phifer

Sundered by Shannon Mayer

Nolander by Becca Mills

Have No Shame by Melissa Foster

All four of these books were Kindle freebies - they sound pretty good!

{The Sunday Post} Bookish News + Links

In The News

Lionsgate executives are interested in starting up theme parks based on The Hunger Games.

Marvel & Netflix are teaming up to release four new shows based on superheroes, followed by a mini-series which will tie all four stories together.

Neil Gaiman is a newly appointed professor at Bard College in New York.

On YouTube

The trailer for Studio Ghibli's new movie, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, is out.

John Green talks about 26 Bizarre College Classes on the Mental Floss channel.

Best book ad ever? An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth.

Around The Blogosphere

largehearted boy is compiling a master list of all of the "Best of 2013" book lists that he comes across.

Jamie @ The Perpetual Page Turner shares her experience on Skyping with a life coach.

Bookish Lists

4 Types of Books To Avoid Before Bed - The Barnes & Noble Book Blog

20 Big Diffrences Between The Walking Dead TV Show & Comics - PASTE

50 Best Cult Books - The Telegraph

56 Delightful Victorian Slang Terms You Should Be Using - Mental Floss

This Week's Interesting Releases

   

What's New On My Bookshelf

  

The above three eBooks were given to me free of charge from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

{The Sunday Post} Bookish News + Links

In The News

Amazon launches Kindle First, which allows Prime members to get a free book of their choice each month before the release date (non-prime members can purchase said eBooks at $1.99), as well as Kindle MatchBook, which allows all members to purchase low cost (or even free) Kindle versions of books that they had previously bought in their physical form.

On YouTube

The Vegan Zombie shows you how to make a yummy, non-dairy version of our favorite Harry Potter drink - Butterbeer!

Improv Everywhere has started a great new segment based on the success of their Ghostbusters video called 'Movies In Real Life,' which is absolutely hilarious! I recommend you check out: Back To The Future & The Matrix, and to keep things bookish, there's a Lord of the Rings vid, too!

Around The Blogosphere

Book Soulmates is back with their Christmas edition of Random Acts of Kindness, in which participants are matched with each other at random, and exchange a bookish gift based on each others' wishlists via snail mail. Sign-ups will be open until November 24th.

On that note, Broke & Bookish is also hosting their 4th Annual Broke & Bookish Secret Santa - you have until November 17th to decide if you'd like to sign-up and join in on the fun!

The 2013 Holiday Gift Guide @ Fantabulously Frugal is now live! If you're in need of some holiday gift inspiration, there are some great ideas that fit all sorts of budgets to be found here. I'm sure a gift guide for book lovers will be posted soon - though there are already many good bookish ideas sprinkled throughout some of the posts already (such as a Hunger Games chocolate bar library).

I Am A Reader, Not A Writer is hosting a Kindle Fire HDX Giveaway this month - have you entered yet?

Bookish Lists

3 New Superhero Books That Pack A Huge Emotional Punch - io9

5 Books That Predicted The Internet - The Barnes & Noble Book Blog

6 Great Works of Literature Written in 6 Weeks or Less - New Republic
14 Published Novels Written During NaNoWriMo - Mental Floss

100 Great Children's Books - New York Public Library

This Week's Interesting Releases

   

   

What's New On My Bookshelf

Penelope by Marilyn Kaye

Adapted From The Screenplay By Leslie Caveny

I absolutely adore the 2006 film, Penelope, and while this is a novelization of the movie, rather than a book the movie is based on (because there isn't one), I would still like to read it. I love the story, and I'm curious to see if the book is as fun to read as the movie is to watch. And for those of you who haven't seen the film, and who like fairy tales, I highly recommend it! There are some truly beautiful scenes in it, plus, Peter Dinklage and James McAvoy!!!

And Dinklage wears an eyepatch!

I also managed to snag some great freebies from the Kindle store:

  

{The Sunday Post} Bookish News + Links

In The News

CBS is working on a reboot of Charmed.

Starz posted a sneak peek photo of the lead hero from their upcoming Outlander adaptation on its official facebook page.

On YouTube

George Takei reads some Erotic Sulu Fanfiction out loud. 

The teaser trailer for the Japanese live-action version of Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono is up.

Around The Blogosphere

Are you participating in NaNoWriMo? If so, some great bloggers have gotten together to start a Writers Unite! Support Group for those of you out there who would like the extra help/motivation/camaraderie.

If you happen to be a reader who's also trying to learn a foreign language, Khazumoto wrote a great little motivational article for people attempting to read a book in their target language that I encourage you to check out.

The Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon will be starting next week on Thursday, November 7th and will run until Monday the 11th. Have you signed up yet?

Also, for those of you who could use the extra nudge in making progress with your electronic TBR list, the Clean Out Your E-Reader Challenge will be having its kick-off this Friday, and will run throughout the entire month of November.

Bookish Lists

9 Fictional Games We Wish We Could Play - The Barnes & Noble Book Blog

10 Words That J.K. Rowling Invented - Hello Giggles

20 Literary Tumblrs That Are Killing It - Buzzfeed

25 Expressions You Should Have In Your Vocabulary - High Existence

Coming Out This Week

   

   

What's New On My Bookshelf

A great big thanks to Emily Bestler Books, an imprint of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster, for sending me this beautiful hardcover edition of Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield - I can't wait to start reading it!

   

Sisters In Love and Six Moon Summer were both Amazon freebies that I added to my Kindle this past week. The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope was more of a splurge, which I had to get for my Kindle after hearing about it on an episode of the Books on the Nightstand podcast. Lastly, I received a copy of Northern Bites to review for an upcoming book tour.