Posted on January 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Peter Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist who wrote The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences, died November 22 at age eighty-nine (The New York Times).
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Richard M. Cohen, a news producer and author of the books Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness and Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope, died December 24 at age seventy-six (The New York Times).
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Another Fear Street movie is among the young-adult literary adaptations coming to screens this year (Book Riot).
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Kelly Jensen calls attention to non-professional book review sites that are being used to support book bans and restrictions in libraries and schools, in her weekly collection of news related to book bans and challenges (Book Riot).
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