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Buzzy Book News & Looking Ahead

Lost book of poems, A Book of Rhymes by Charlotte Brontë, (one of her miniature books) has been uncovered and will sell for $1.25 million, according to NYT. 

Biographer Nancy Milford, has died at the age of 84. NYT has more about her life.

Time shares “12 New Books You Should Read in April.”

Los Angeles Times has “10 books to add to your reading list in April.”

NYT lists “12 New Books Coming in April.”

The Root provides “Six Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read in April 2022.”

Autostraddle has “80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Spring 2022.”

USA Today publishes an "April rom-com roundup" featuring The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa (Avon).

LibraryReads publishes “The top ten books published this month that library staff across the country love.”

Page to Screen

April 1: 

Morbius, based on associated titles. Sony Pictures. No reviews | Trailer

Battle: Freestyle, based on a book by Maja Lunde. Netflix. No reviews | Trailer

Better Nate Than Ever, based on the book by Tim Federie. Disney+. Reviews | Trailer

Doug Unplugs, based on the book Doug Unplugged by Dan Yaccarino. Apple TV+. No reviews | Trailer

Slow Horses, based on the book by Mick Herron. Apple TV+. No reviews | Trailer

April 2:

Fallen Angels Murder Club: Friends to Die For, based on the book by R. Franklin James. Lifetime. No reviews | Trailer

April 4:

The Case for Heaven, based on the book by Lee Strobel. Fathom Events. No reviews | Trailer

April 6:

The Hardy Boys, based on the book series by Edward Stratemeyer. Hulu. Reviews | Trailer

April 7:

Tokyo Vice, based on the book by Jake Adelstein. HBO Max. No reviews | Trailer

Reviews

NYT reviews The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad (Riverhead; LJ starred reviews): "stunning not only on account of the writer’s talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity, in how a book this unflinching in its depiction of class and institutional injustice can still feel so tender."

The Washington Post publishes reviews Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton (Random): "If Newton’s attempts to connect with the past are unusual, her clear-eyed look at her ancestors’ complicity is nonetheless a valuable and bracing portrait of one American family tree that we know represents many, many more." Also, Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet by John W. Reid (Norton): "for all its scholarly precision, is ultimately an impassioned plea to save the world’s last great wild places by two men who had come, through long professional acquaintance, to love them. Readers will find their passion to be contagious." Plus, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein (Penguin): "a compelling account of how the United States acquired and exploited the stunning power that modern statehood delivers." And, Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - And Prevented Economic Disaster by Nick Timiraos (Little, Brown): "The book’s strength lies in its detailed original reporting and the fast-paced narrative of the harrowing month that the Fed spent nearly unilaterally preventing a financial catastrophe as the coronavirus was taking off in 2020. Embedded in the tale is a careful accounting of the economic and financial implications of the Fed’s actions." Plus, The Child is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori by Cristina De Stefano (Other Press): "repeatedly evokes this tension between “Montessorism” as something of a social justice movement, aimed at empowering society’s most neglected through education, and as an educational strategy deployed largely to benefit society’s most privileged."

The Los Angeles Times reviews Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart (Atlantic Monthly; LJ starred review): “reads like an emergency room physician’s list of cases: bashed noses, shattered teeth and mangled limbs. Group dynamics revolve around escalating barbarity; it’s a sport and bond.”

Locus Magazine reviews Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (Tor: Macmillan): “it draws on fairytale ele­ments in its worldbuilding; like most of them, it’s strongly concerned, in its own way, with ethics, with power, and with what you do in response to cruelty.”

Tor.com reviews City of Dusk by Tara Sim (Orbit: Hachette): “fast-paced, full of action, and normatively queer.”

Wired reviews A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm (Viking): “synthesizes genres to create something new. Part ensemble family drama, part coming-of-age story, part social novel, part cli-fi, it’s original and affecting not despite its overstuffed melange of big ideas but because of how deftly Scherm weaves them together.”

Datebook reviews Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors by Greg Sarris (Heyday: Ingram): “Sarris gathers from gossip, myth, dreams and science to investigate the imperishable power of story itself and how it helps us locate and claim a sense of home.”

Briefly Noted

Marie Yovanovitch, Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir (Mariner), talks about “Trump, Putin, Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s courage and the future of democracy” in an interview with Salon. 

Mindy Kaling discusses her frenemy from The Office as uncovered in Judd Apatow’s book of interviews, Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy (Random), as featured on Entertainment Weekly. 

The Millions interviews Jennifer Egan about her latest book, The Candy House (Scribner; LJ starred review).

Maud Newton discusses her “American family history, the intoxicating pull of discovering our forebears’ secrets,” and her book, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random) with The Rumpus. Also, an interview with Shondaland about “the power of genetic history.”

Jane Green, Sister Stardust (Hanover), talks to Popsugar about her book, “Morocco, and the dark undertones of the high-flying ‘60s.”

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Vintage), answers NYTs By the Book questionnaire.

NYT profiles Hugo Hamilton's The Pages (Knopf) as the book is narrated by Joseph Roth's 1924 novel, Rebellion (Everyman).

Gizmodo announces a new Star Wars novel, Brotherhood by Mike Chen (Del Rey), that includes the “Asajj Ventress Backstory.”

A cocktail book inspired by Bridgerton, The Regency Book of Drinks: Quaffs, Qips, Tipples, and Tales from Grovesnor Square by Amy Finley (Abrams) is highlighted by Entertainment Weekly. 

Tor.com shares “Five Labyrinthian SFF Books.”

Book Riot gives “11 of the Best Isekai Manga.”

Electric Lit provides “7 Contemporary Horror Novels that Push Boundaries.”

Today lists 5 books to read after Groundskeeping by Lee Cole (Knopf).

NYT has “10 New Books We Recommend This Week" and "New in Paperback."

Authors on Air

Brené Brown interviews Susan Cain for a second part on a series about her book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole (Crown).

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