Gravity Falls is one giant mystery. There’s a puzzle wrapped around every inch of Gravity Falls, and we just can’t seem to get enough. Mysteries expanding from who the author of the journals is to who runs and knows about the mysterious happenings around the town. It continues into the three journals themselves, with the different…
Onward and Upward: The Magicians’ Rocky Start, and Where the Show Can Go From Here
I got my heart’s desire, and there my troubles began. A pessimistic start to the first book in The Magicians series by Lev Grossman, you might say. We want things, claims the narrative, and we will continue to want them even as we learn that they will destroy us. Showcase’s TV adaptation mirrors that desire a little…
The Thursday Book Beat: Diversity Discussions in Publishing Take the Transcontinental Stage
Welcome back to Book Beat, readers! It’s been a pretty busy week for the book industry, and leading the news charge is the release of Lee & Low’s diversity baseline survey results. 34 publishers and 8 literary review journals participated, including Big Six publishers Penguin Random House, Scholastic, and Macmillan. Unsurprisingly, the results of the…