This is a continuation of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page. Post-publication, I combined previous posts into this one and retitled this page.

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My April round-up of book news includes:

*The winners of the LA Times Book Prize and the Edgar Awards

*The 70 books chosen to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee

*Book bannings and cancellations

*The novel that became a movie, then a stage play, and is now an opera

*The books that have turned 10, 15, 20, 100 & 120 (hint about this last stat is the image for this post!)

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Some of the book news that made headlines in March:

*The shuttering of all 68 of Amazon’s physical stores

*How Ukrainians are using books to fight back

*The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards

*The questions raised by Jack Kerouac’s centenary

*The seven Academy Award Best Picture nominations that are adaptations of books, short stories, musicals or films

(Image from Literary Hub)

This is the beginning of my series “This Month in Book News,” a new iteration of the “This Week in Book News” segment I previously wrote for my Facebook business page.

February news:

*The finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

*Addressing racism in “Death on the Nile,” based on Agatha Christie’s book of the same name

*The “bitter row” over Rosemary Sullivan’s THE BETRAYAL OF ANNE FRANK

*The centennial of the publication of James Joyce’s ULYSSES

*Poems by Ukrainian writers Iya Kiva and Ilya Kaminsky

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See second part of post for January news!