Month: October 2021

There’s a moment in Sex and the City when Carrie Bradshaw realizes she has $40,000 worth of shoes in her closet and no actual savings account. “I will literally be the old lady who lived in her shoes,” she laments, staring at the wreckage of beauty and waste. Violet Gross recalls similar awakenings—and subsequent panic
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Lately, Book Riot has been covering a lot of book challenge and censorship news. We always have, but it’s skyrocketed recently. It’s necessary to shine a spotlight on this, but it’s also disheartening. It seems like bookish news stories are always about a beloved author’s death, library funding being cut, or book bans. It’s enough
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Scream Queen, Actor, Author, and Americas Audition Coach Lar Park Lincoln is starring in Deborah Vorhees’ new “13 Fanboy” film that is now available in select theaters and VOD. Extremely well known in the horror genre for her portrayal of the super-powered final girl Tina Shepard in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood,” “13 Fanboy” is
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Amanda Khozi Mukwashi is to step down as chief executive of Christian Aid to take up a new role at the United Nations. Khozi Mukwashi, who joined Christian Aid in April 2018, said she would leave the charity at the end of the year to take up her new position in early 2022. Further details
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When you live in the Arconia, the murders, apparently, never cease. The season finale of Only Murders in the Building hit Hulu on October 19, revealing that yet another unexpected victim had met an untimely death inside the walls of the glamorous Upper West Side apartment building. To dissect the delicious finale—and the cliffhanger it
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Natasha Farrant’s Voyage of the Sparrowhawk whisks readers away on an enthralling and heartwarming adventure helmed by two young orphans, set in England in the aftermath of World War I.  Feisty, impetuous Lotti and steady, determined Ben meet by chance and become fast friends at the very moment each needs a friend the most. Lotti
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Jerry Pinkney, beloved author and illustrator of over 100 books for children and adults, winner of five Coretta Scott King Awards, a Caldecott Medal, and a Horn Book Award, among many other honors, passed away on October 20, 2021 at the age of 81. His agent, Sheldon Fogelman, confirmed to NPR that the cause of
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A specialist trader works inside a booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, October 6, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock futures dipped slightly in overnight trading Thursday after the S&P 500 reached new highs. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 15 points. S&P 500
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