Tag: reading

#ICYMI Do Yourself a Favor and Check Out Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WASHINGTON POST.

Black Excellence: Honoring Kwanzaa through Science Fiction and Fantasy

Read at Tor.com.

All the New Science Fiction Books Coming Out in November

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#ICYMI Levar Burton Announces Book Podcast!

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Tor.com Has the List of 2017 Hugo Award Finalists!

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Note the color on the list . . . Mm Hm.

100 Books by Arab Women Recommended for Your 2017 Reading Resolutions

Peruse the list at Bookriot.com.

We’ll be honest. There’re only one dystopic book and another called The Square Moon: Supernatural Stories on this list, but this is a tremendous collection and you’ve gotta see it.

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Step Up to BOOK RIOT’S 2017 Read Harder Challenge!

Check it out at Bookriot.com.

This year, Daniel José Older, Sarah MacLean, Roxane Gay, Celeste Ng, Ausma Zehanat Khan, and Jacqueline Koyanagi have contributed their own ideas to the challenge’s task list.

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More Than 1.8 Million Teens are Reading Books by Text Messages Thanks to This Start-up

Read all about it at The Washington Post.

Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia launched their company, Telepathic, a year ago with an application called Hooked.

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Tor.com: Announcing the 2015 British Sci Fi Awards Shortlist!

Click here to read at Tor.com.

Nnedi Okorafor’s “Binti” and “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight” by Aliette de Bodard are both up for Best Short Story. Vincent Sammy’s “Songbird, Interzone 257 is contending for Best Artwork.

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Writer Aliette de Bodard at Finncon 2013 in Helsinki, Finland

11-Year-Old Girl ‘Sick of Reading About White Boys and Dogs,’ Starts Literary Movement

Check it out at Mashable.com.

Marley Dias’s Twitter campaign #1000BlackGirlBooks is already making a difference.
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