By Sophie
- Let’s start off with some award winners: this year’s Newbery Medal (for best US children’s book, basically) was won by Dave Eggers for The Eyes and the Impossible (illustrated by Shawn Harris). The Caldecott Medal (for best illustrations of a children’s book) was awarded to Vashti Harrison for Big. Jason Allen-Paisant won the T. S Elliot Prize for Self-Portrait as Othello.
- I know we’re in February already, but I can’t resist sharing this list of New Year, New You books by Powell’s. A list in which 9 good habits non-fiction titles are paired with 9 terrible habit fictions. You get to choose which side of yourself to embrace!
- For all Mieko Kawakami fans, here’s a look at her life in books. And if you don’t know Kawakami yet, let our staff choices on Breasts and Eggs and All the Lovers in the Night woo you to her.
No one does high fashion looks paired with book titles better than the Waterstones social media accounts! Check out their looks-to-books pairings for the Emmys, the Critics Choice Awards, and the Golden Globes part 1 and part 2. Fabulous darling!
- Gen Z loves the library. And when I visited the central library in The Hague last weekend, every desk there was filled up with young folk, so in that regard it’s true. Hopefully the rest of the generations will visit, go to events, and borrow books as well!
- Book to screen adaptations for 2024, a probably incomplete list. I’d love to see and read them all, but there are just not enough hours in the day!
Uproar in Hugo Awards country, where several members resigned and have been reprimanded over last year’s WorldCon and awards ceremony, held in Chengdu. Some authors, including R. F. Kuang, were deemed not eligible for the award, and everyone’s wondering why – Babel won the Locus and Nebula.- In honor of the Mean Girls remake in theaters now, here are five of the best books on gossip, according to The Guardian.
- A quick events round-up for you: ’tis the month of Trade-In Days at ABC, Tiya Miles talks about her award-winning book All That She Carried at the John Adams Institute on 15 February, and on the same day Daniel Kehlmann presents his newest Lichtspiel (not yet translated into English) at BorderKitchen.
- And finally, may you all have an insightful and inspiring Black History Month! See some of the titles featured on our highlights list below.
