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The Millions Has Released Their Spring 2026 Book Preview
The Millions released their Great Spring 2026 Book review—one of their biannual Great Book Previews—just this past Friday. Right off the bat, it gets into some of our most anticipated. There’s One Leg on Earth by ‘Pemi Aguda, London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe, Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez, and My Dear You by Rachel Khong, to name a few.
In Ryan Coogler I Trust
No one is beyond reproach, but after Black Panther and Sinners (and now X-Files!), Coogler is as close as it gets for me. Now, the Oscar winner is on board to executive produce a new television adaptation of Animorphs, which is, of course, the sci-fi/fantasy middle grade book series by K. A. Applegate that had then-young millennials in the tightest of vice grips.
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When I was the series’ target age, I read a few of its 54 books and watched the show, which followed a group of teenagers who come across a dying alien and get tangled up in fending off an alien invasion. They do this with their new ability to morph into animals. According to Variety, the official logline describes the show as following “a group of teenagers who uncover a hidden threat lurking beneath their everyday lives, all while juggling relationships, curfews, and the chaos of High School.” Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler are the other executive producers, and the show is said to be in early development for Disney+.
Netflix Lord of the Flies Adaptation Trailer Drops
Is this a safe space? I still haven’t read Lord of the Flies. I know I can’t have read every book, classic or not, but I still feel compelled to mention how I come up short sometimes. My literary insecurity aside, the new Netflix trailer looks amazing. Like I forgot for a second that it was a Netflix production and was expecting an “in theaters on…” date kind of amazing. The color saturation is striking, the child acting is excellent, and it comes from the award-winning writer of Adolescence. But most importantly? Some of the children give me the creeps…which I expect is rather the point. 10/10
It’s out May 4th.
Book Riot Senior Editor Kelly Jensen explains how it took 10 months “for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to have a budget for fiscal year 2026” because of the current administration, and now Trump is back at it again. “It is the sixth time that the administration has targeted the tiny agency.”
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