SHUT IN THEATER: Weekend Reading 192

The first weekend in 2024 has arrived, and with it has come Weekend Reading 192! While it could be a complete new 12 months, we’re nonetheless holing up in Stately Beat Manor and getting misplaced in a great e-book.

What are you going to be paging by when you attempt to neglect that Monday is lurking simply across the nook? Let The Beat know within the remark part!

AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m studying the opposite prose e-book that was gifted to me for Xmas by Rebecca Oliver Kaplan: The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox. Then so far as comics goes, I’m trying out City of Dragons: Rise of the Shadowfire by Jaimal Yogis & Vivian Truong. Dragons in Paris? Sold.

TAIMUR DAR: December ended up being a busy month for me, so I didn’t get as a lot time to chill out and luxuriate in books, TV, motion pictures, and many others. as I’d like. So I’m rectifying that with begin of the brand new 12 months. Kicking it off by studying a e-book that’s been on my listing for months, Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer. I’ve heard nothing however nice issues and it’s a topic that deserves to be advised so I’m fairly wanting to learn it.

DEAN SIMONS: New 12 months, new novel! Just began The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. It received the Booker Prize in 2022 and follows the ghost of a photographer who has seven days to unravel the thriller of his homicide within the midst of the Sri Lankan civil conflict. One of the actually attention-grabbing points of the e-book is that it’s written fully within the second individual.

KRISTINA ELYSE BUTKE: I just lately completed My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata and was so touched by her depiction of despair–I actually noticed myself in her when it got here to psychological sickness as I’m presently coping with my very own bout of despair. For this weekend I’ll be studying her sequels, My Solo Exchange Diary volumes one and two, which explores Nagata making an attempt to make her means on the planet, navigate friendships and relationships, self-acceptance, and naturally, love.

REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: Lately, I’ve been making use of my NetGalley superior copy evaluate account A LOT. It’s the brand new 12 months, and I’m excited to take a look at all the brand new books and graphic novels popping out in 2024. To start, I downloaded Eddie Ahn’s graphic memoir Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice about being an environmental justice lawyer and activist in San Francisco, California, which comes out in April 2024 from Ten Speed Press. I used to be one class shy of a environmental regulation and poisonous torts certification after I graduated regulation faculty, and even thought of being an environmental justice lawyer earlier than the US authorized system broke me, so Ahn’s account speaks to me.

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