Posted on March 6, 2025 at 12:00 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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A new poll found that 40 percent of Britons have not read or listened to a book in the past year, while the median adult read/listened to three books in that timeframe (The Guardian).
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The upcoming romance novel Sparrow and Vine by Sophie Lark has been pulled by its publisher after advance readers complained about characters' racist comments, among other issues; Lark said her intention was to depict a "flawed character" but that she would revise the work so as not to do further harm (The New York Times).
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Sophie Elmhirst has received the Nero Gold Prize and its £30,000 (almost $38,700) purse for Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Shipwreck, Survival and Love (The Guardian).
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A collection of JRR Tolkien's letters is up for sale, but it'll cost you £550,000 (over $709,000); it includes the manuscript of Tolkien's collaboration with a composer and letters complaining about a sloppy typist (The Guardian).
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