Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• What would happen if you reframed how you thought about the books you read in data? In other words, if you only had 2,500 more books you could read in your life, what would you keep or ditch?

 

• The ultimate guide to best teen books by age.

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) is being challenged in Irving, Texas.

 

• My 5th grade teacher had one reading rule and it forever changed my reading life.

 

• How ’bout some bookish press-on nails?

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• What’s happening at Niles Public Library with their elected Board’s agenda of destroying the institution should concern you.

 

• How white gatekeeping in YA harms actual teenagers.

 

• Dig into nostalgia with these 90s teen horror books.

I’m back at work now, and I’ve hit the keyboard hard:

 

• New anti-LGBTQ laws in Hungary have landed a bookshop with a fine for not labeling a queer-friendly children’s book as such.

 

• And speaking of censorship, the Texas governor canceled a book event for a title exploring the ways slavery impacted the history of the Alamo.

Now that I’m nearing the end of maternity leave — I get back to regular Book Riot business after the holiday — and since writing has been such a daunting task these last few months, I didn’t share what I’d written and scheduled ahead of time from BR. Here’s a giant roundup of those pieces!

 

• Pressed flower bookmarks.

 

• Great diverse historical YA fiction.

 

• Bling your fingers with bookish rings.

 

• A nerdy history of the ampersand.

 

• Show your love of the bookstore with these fun bookstore pins.

 

• Fun librarian shirts and sweatshirts.

 

• Accessible yoga poses for reading.

 

• The giant roundup of Spring 2021 YA books.

 

• Gifts for readers who love space.

 

• 13 moving poems by YA authors.

 

• 20 more YA verse novels to TBR.

 

• Bookish gifts for horror lovers.

 

• A guide to the best children’s books by age.

 

• Shake it up with Shakespeare stickers.

 

• On the lack of disability representation on diverse book covers.

 

• Awesome resin bookmarks.

 

• YA book cover design makeovers: who wore it better?

 

• A look at nostalgic teen magazines.

 

• Great finds for fans of Goosebumps.

 

• A look at what popular self-help books do — and don’t — tell us about our contemporary moment.

 

• Bookish goods for plant lovers.

 

• An A-Z guide to poetic terminology.

 

• Some of the best nonfiction YA comics.

 

• Literary gifts for mystery lovers.

 

• 5 YA novels turned into comics.

 

• Some of the best YA comics to put on your TBR.

 

• Last, but not least, another round of Literary Jeopardy.