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Today’s edition of SFF Daily Deals is sponsored by Flamer by Mike Curato with Fierce Reads. 

Check out the incredible home options for your dream literary trip. If any of these catches your fancy and you’ve got flexible travel in the next three months, book it immediately. The deal lasts today only. Click through to the listing to find the specific date ranges the deal is good for, as each home has a different availability. Even if you don’t snag one of these deals today, put them on your literary bucket list for future bookish travel because they are good....

When I was in secondary school in (very Catholic 1990s) Ireland, a biology teacher told my class one day that this advise was bullshit, and that scientifically there was no reason not to take the pill continuously. She told us, full of raging feminism, that this was a prime example of women cowed into accepting a rule that took away true choice and rendered consent uninformed and meaningless. Her impassioned speech stuck with me for many years, and so I wasn’t surprised by the recent announcement from the NHS....

The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon This one dates from 1956. Detailing the lives of West Indians in London after World War II, the book covers around three years of time and follows some members of the Windrush generation. It’s all brought together by Moses Aloetta, who has spent ten years in London and still hasn’t achieved what he feels he should. Social mobility is a big theme here, and in the recent attitudes of the UK government to the Windrush generation, this story is incredibly valid....

As noted by Sins Invalid founder Patty Berne in “Skin, Tooth, and Bone — The Basis of Our Movement Is People: A Disability Justice Primer,” we must remember that “a disability justice framework understands that all bodies are unique and essential, that all bodies have strengths and needs that must be met.” In our pursuit of disability rights, we should never narrow our focus on disabled people with the most privilege....

The number one most borrowed book of all time at Brooklyn Public Library, after 125 years of borrowing, is: The other books rounding up the top ten are: And hey, if you want to throw a Where the Wild Things Are-themed baby shower, you can do that, too. 2. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats 3. The Cat In the Hat by Dr. Seuss 4. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 5....

In this quiz, I’ve gathered ten classic SFF books, using the loosest definition of each term, and expertly edited out the author and title. Some of these are recent classics of the genre, while others have been around for many decades. You can check your answer for which book you think these are by clicking the links underneath, which will take you to the page for the unedited version of the cover....

And here’s and excerpt of “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” Have fun! Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.

E: Engkanto/Engkantada F: The Fall G: Ganesha H: Hanuman I: Is’nana J: Juju A new edition of Trese‘s first volume is due out next month and Netflix has announced plans for an anime. Where does Ganesha come in? Legend says that Sage Vyasa, to whose ashram Ashwatthama fled and at which he was found by the Pandavas, dictated the story to Lord Ganesha who recorded it so that it could be passed down to future generations....

My goal in cookbook showdown is to choose four recipes that are attempting to get similar results. If I’d chosen three hot soups and one cold soup, that cold soup would have had to go up against other soups that are trying to do what that gazpacho is not trying to do. Would it be fair to compare a cup of fat-free greek yogurt with full-fat, frozen yogurt? No, though their base ingredients are the same, the goal is not....

The advent of Dalit literature, comprising poems, novels, memoirs, and the like, is rectifying this situation slowly by depicting the nuances of the Dalit culture. Dalit literature is one of the most important literary phenomena in post-independence India that is trying to restore dignity to a community that has been wronged for ages. Their struggles relating to their stigmatized identity as “untouchables” are finally being acknowledged. Dalit literature has become synonymous with the Dalit consciousness, on both individual and communal levels....

There’s a long-running joke that, after “coming out,” a lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership card and instruction manual. THIS IS THAT INSTRUCTION MANUAL. You’re welcome. Inside you’ll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask: from sex to politics, hooking up to stereotypes, coming out and more. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality and what it’s like to grow up LGBT also includes real stories from people across the gender and sexual spectrums, not to mention hilarious illustrations....

Hi mystery fans! It may be a new year’s first month of reading completed, but it’s the same goal: read all the books! I started the year off with tons of great reads that will certainly entertain so many different mystery & thriller readers. I’ve got a new PI series set in Ghana, a literary “why” mystery, a British cozy, for Tana French fans, a Die Hard at a rest stop thriller, two completed trilogy series, and more!...

Here at Book Riot, we’ve done several lists about the best supervillains. This is not one of them. Daredevil literally had no “best” villains in the 1960s. I have read every regular issue (i.e. no annuals) of Daredevil with a ’60s cover date—that’s Issues 1–59—so I speak from personal experience when I say that early Daredevil villains are all varying flavors of hilariously terrible, forgettably terrible, and terrible terrible. It’s amazing that Daredevil lasted so long without getting even a sniff at a decent arch-nemesis....

Earlier this year I started a little project of rereading Tiffany Reisz’s Original Sinners series with the intention of taking a critical look at Reisz’s use of theology and biblical reference throughout the eight book series. My plan was to write one long essay on the topic that tried to identify a series wide pattern. But about three books into the note taking process, two things happened: I realized that this was going to be WAY too much information for a single essay....

Is your mystery loving heart looking for awesome crime reads? Cause I got you! From eerie mysteries to two crime novels that will be top of the 2020 best mystery lists (1st two listed), procedurals, and suspense, there’s something murder-y here to curl up with while waiting for spring. New & Upcoming Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (August 25, Ecco) I especially loved two things about this novel: the characters and the setting....

Maria Popova is most famous for her Brainpickings blog which has been around for 13 years. I have read it for myself to find solace in writers like Hannah Arendt, Galway Kinnell, and James Baldwin. I have also used it with my students at a community college because Popova’s bite-size morsels of the great writers make them more approachable for students who often find the idea of “great writers” for people other than them....

Happy following! Dept. of Imagination (Bonnier Zaffre) A post shared by Dept. of Imagination (@deptofimagination) on May 14, 2018 at 10:49am PDT FSG Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A post shared by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (@fsgbooks) on Oct 16, 2018 at 2:42pm PDT GCP Art (Grand Central Publishing) https://www.instagram.com/p/BUAXDdLjJg1 Graywolf Press A post shared by Graywolf Press (@graywolfpress) on Sep 30, 2018 at 9:21pm PDT Hachette Books Art Department A post shared by Hachette Books Art Department (@hachettebooksart) on May 7, 2018 at 12:31pm PDT...

To commemorate all of these auspicious dates, I thought I’d share a few fun facts about the Mexican translations of Batman and other popular superheroes that were published in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Since I have neither the time nor the money (we’ll get to that last part in a minute) to rush out and buy any of these translations for myself, most of the information here comes from looking at the covers of these comics, as well as from this fantastic SDCC@Home panel....