Fussy’s favorites: Week of March 15, 2021

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our reader blog this week. 

Excerpts 

• Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen 

• This Is the Fire by Don Lemon 

• This Is the Voice by John Colapinto

Adaptations

• N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy is optioned for TV

• The literary influences on this year's Oscar-nominated movies

• Filming begins on the TV adaptation of The Essex Serpent

Just for fun 

• Newly discovered spider is named after Eric Carle 

• Learn some unique characteristics of Irish English

• Library book, 63 years overdue, returned by its last borrower 

Powerful figures

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book is out 

• New book explores Mississippi as a literary powerhouse 

• An LGBTQ+ Captain America will debut this summer