Newswire
Posted on January 17, 2025 at 3:00 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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Reading subscription company Everand released its 2025 State of Reading report, analyzing how some 1,500 subscribers (of a variety of services, not just Everand) read and view reading (Book Riot).
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Kelly Jensen used the years-long battle at one public library — northern Michigan's Alpena Public Library — to illustrate the threat to the freedom to read that the entire US faces and, more importantly, the effective ways that book advocates can fight back (Book Riot).
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Jensen also covered a movement in favor of establishing a student bill of rights during an era of increasing book censorship, in her weekly roundup of book-ban news (Book Riot).
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Jennifer Armentrout's From Blood and Ash series is being adapted for TV by Sony (Screen Rant).
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Nathalie Dupree, a TV personality and author of fifteen cookbooks including New Southern Cooking, died Monday at age eight-five (The New York Times).
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