Posted on July 7, 2025 at 12:37 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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By one tally, The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins is the bestselling book of the year so far, followed closely by Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Publishers Weekly).
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A TV adaptation/continuation of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey will hew closer to the original work, as this show — like the novel — will be from Chief Bromden's perspective (Deadline).
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Longtime war correspondent Sandy Gall, who also wrote books including the autobiography News From the Front: A Television Reporter’s Life and 2022's Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud, died Sunday at age ninety-seven (The New York Times).
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Audiobook narrators are, of course, keeping one eye on artificial intelligence while also pointing out the ways in which AI narrators can't compete with live humans (The Guardian).
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