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What is FCBD? FCBD is an annual event held worldwide to support local comic bookstores and promote comic books. It’s held on the first Saturday of May, with some stores making it into a weekend-long party. This year, FCBD lands on Saturday 7 May. The event was originally started as a marketing campaign run by the largest distributor of comics, Diamond Comic Distributors. When it started in 2002, the line-up was a mere four (4) comics including Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Spider-Man #1, Dark Horse Comics’ Star Wars Tales: A Jedi’s Weapon, Image Comics’/Top Cow Productions’ Tomb Raider #1½ , and DC Comics’ Justice League Adventures....

The Harlem Renaissance included a rich array of publications called “little magazines.” These literary journals could be compared to the ‘zine movement of the late twentieth century—the little magazines allowed space for not just poetry and prose, but also for essays of radicalism, of experimental writing, and for space for subversion. Many of the magazines included critiques of not just the established (read: white) culture, but they also were unafraid to comment upon the work of other black leaders....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Bookshop on the Corner comes this witty and warmhearted novel. A single mom makes a fresh start in a small Scottish seaside town with the help of the quirky but kind local bookseller. We have 5 copies of The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan to give away to 5 Riot readers! This sweepstakes is open to residents of the United States (excluding Puerto Rico and all other US territories)....

Looking for more outside reading adventures? Check out our list of science and nature books for kids, these children’s books about spring, and books to learn more about plants.

What is codependency, you ask? I like this description from Codependency for Dummies (a really good resource, by the way): “[Codependents’] lives revolve around someone else — especially those they love. Their loved ones preoccupy their thoughts, feelings, and conversations. Like jumpy rabbits, they react to everything, put aside what they need and feel, and try to control what they can’t.” I myself am a born-and-bred people-pleaser, and just recently had to make myself a giant note next to my desk that reads: “What are we solving for that is NOT feelings?...

The spinoff Bridgerton prequel was announced in May, and now Netflix has released the cast list. The series will follow a young Queen Charlotte in her rise to power, and it will also be written and executive produced by Shonda Rhimes, among others. Young Queen Charlotte will be played by India Amarteifio, and the story will start with her being engaged to the King of England against her will. When she arrives in London, she has to find her place in the among the royals, who do not appear eager to help her fit in....

Maybe it’s the warm weather, maybe it’s the unbound optimism of having spent the last two summers entirely at home, but I’m looking at my future travel plans like that scene in A Goofy Movie where everyone is singing about how much they love driving. Pack those books, queue up an audiobook or two, and make your summer road trip decidedly more bookish with these fun pieces! Wherever your travels take you this summer, there’ll be a book or five ready to join you on your travels!...

I’m honestly not even sure why it’s been so hard for me to focus on reading. I’m an introvert anyway. I also have a seasonal job, so being home alone for part of the year, reading, writing, and baking, is just normal life for me. But despite how grateful I am to be safe and healthy right now, it’s hard to ignore the anxiety, sadness, anger, and overwhelm I wake up with every day....

In Yara Zgheib’s No Land To Light On, we are introduced to a young Syrian couple, Sama and Hadi. Hadi was traveling to Jordan to make arrangements for his father’s funeral. On the day of his return, January 28, 2017, when Sama came to the airport to receive him, she was met with enormous protests breaking out regarding Donald Trump’s order banning entry from seven Muslim-majority nations. As was expected, Hadi was denied entry back into the United States, thus forcefully separating him from his family....

For their research, the organization pooled all titles on the NYT List from June 22, 2008 to March 29, 2020. They then determined the top 100 titles from the NYT list based on the number of times it appeared on the lists in that time frame, and each of those titles was subtracted from its average ranking on the list. This made for a total of 716 unique titles. Once those titles were identified, the top 100 reviews on Goodreads—the reader’s view of books—were pulled....

Though this made perfect sense, I felt a twinge of panic. My daughter and I typically found ourselves at the library two or three times a week, dropping off books, picking up new ones. What would we do with ourselves now? How would we get the next book in the Hilo series? What would I read?? On the other side of the circulation desk, library staffers were grappling with their own questions....

Whichever of the different book formats you use to get your read on, bibliophiles know the usual publishing timeline. Hardcover books come first. Paperbacks get a set of steak knives. Everything else gets in where it fits in. Nonetheless, with all the various ways to consume books and with all of us book nerds ready and willing to give publishers our hard-earned money for books in all of their various formats, I couldn’t help but wonder: “Why do we have to wait months for publishers to release the paperback version of hardcover books?...

Build a guide to the current climate on your website, your social media, and affiliated groups to challenge the narrative being pushed by Moms For Liberty, No Left Turn, and others. Be upfront about the claims being made against libraries and schools in a broad way, then focus it on your local institutions. Here’s a stellar example. The Forest Hills Public Schools (Michigan) has been subject to a local group’s demands to things like “removing CRT” from the curriculum and “focusing on fundamentals....

1. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Being one of the best people – not just in the music industry but, you know, in general – Dolly Parton stepped up to help address literacy problems amongst kids by founding her Imagination Library. Running since 1995, the Imagination Library has so far sent nearly 140 million free books to children of all ages in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Ireland – and baby books are included....

As with most other things, the internet cracked open a whole new world for readers. Ebooks and ebook readers became attainable. Audiobooks suddenly didn’t require awkward equipment struggles. Brilliant libraries embraced a multitude of new ways to read so the technology was accessible to more people. The days of carrying six paperbacks in your carry-on could be a thing of the past (unless, of course, you actually loved that bit)....

A post shared by Kristen (@beasdoodads) on May 27, 2019 at 3:01pm PDT A post shared by 💕Medjoy (@withloveandpetals) on May 26, 2019 at 12:01pm PDT What You’ll Need A book of any size or condition (see the torn up Nora Roberts below) Hot glue gun and hot glue Scissors Something to be stems (either pipe cleaner or green plant stakes) How T0 Make Book Flowers In 5 Steps 1....

Unfortunately I’ve also had a couple infestations, which has spurred me to do lots of research about how to keep bugs away from my books. Here’s what I’ve learned. Bugs That Like Books Did you know that bookworms are an actual thing? The term doesn’t usually refer to any one particular insect, but there are lots of bugs that like books. They include beetles, book lice, moths, silverfish, termites, and cockroaches....

N. K. Jemisin’s Hugo- and Nebula-winning Broken Earth series is one of my favorite works of fantasy. It’s a cohesive, diverse, fully developed world, with its own races, geography, mythology, and much more. In a post-apocalyptic world with an unstable climate, people called orogenes can harness energy to control volcanoes and earthquakes. The oppression of the orogenes has many possible parallels to real-world colonialism and racism and produces complex relationships with huge power imbalances....

For some of our family’s favorite games, we’d come up with our own additional rules or traditions to add to the fun. Upon finishing a round of The AMAZEing Labyrinth, we’d have to use the treasure cards we found during the game to each tell a silly story. After many contentious family arguments over what the actual rules to Dominos were (it’s still a bit nebulous to me, honestly), my brother crafted a handwritten list of the rules we were supposed to follow....

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick.FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of a Mexican-American family from Maria Amparo Escandon. Because there’s so much flash and cash in L.A., there are great books about rising and falling stars, as well as thrilling novels about cons and crimes. There’s a seedy underbelly to the city beneath the glitz and glamour, which makes for a great setting for hardboiled detective novels....