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Spring 2019 Books We Cannot Wait to Read!

The Spring Equinox is upon us! And we plan to celebrate it in the best way possible: reading as many books as we can stuff into our brains.

And yes, that is how we celebrate everything, because it’s the best way.

We’re gathered up some of our picks like so many newly-blooming flowers, and we’re excited to recommend them to you! And, as always, we’d love to hear about your most anticipated books in the comments.

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Toy Story 4 Wants to Give Us Another Existential Crisis

Toy Story 3 was widely lauded, particularly by the generation of kids who grew up on the first and second films—it was a perfect button to all the thoughts and emotions this series prompted in regard to growing up, moving through life, and the importance of play. When Andy left his beloved toys with little Bonnie, many fans heard audible sobs in the theater.

And now we’ve got Toy Story 4 to… help us do it all over again?

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8 Very Good Time Traveling Doggos

Whether they be long bois or CHONK, smol or Absolute Units, we can probably agree that all doggos are good bois at heart—which is why they make such excellent companions in any timeline!

A surprising number of dogs (and other canine-adjacent creatures) have shown up in time travel stories, and quite possibly in real life, too. We’ve leashed eight such tales for your enjoyment—fortunately none of these time travelers has caused a paradogs (get it??). Tell us about any puppers we overlooked!

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Watch the First Trailer for the Final Season of Game of Thrones

After all the betrayals and White Walkers and gallons of Dornish wine and sexposition and poisonings and DRAGONS, the final season of Game of Thrones looms before us as inevitable as death itself.

Which is fitting, since this trailer opens with Arya talking about death before showing us the various armies—human and not so human—gathering their forces for one final confrontation.

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The Game of Thrones Final Battle Intends to Rival The Lord of the Rings

With less than two months to go (April 14!), we’re starting to finally hear some details about the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones.

Today’s eyebrow-raiser comes courtesy of Entertainment Weekly‘s feature story on the final battle within the show, which details a 3 month-long shoot for the epic sequence.

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The Wheel of Time Episode 3 Title Revealed, Hints at Different Sequential Order

For this week’s #WoTWednesday, The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins has treated fans to another episode title page from the currently-in-the-works first season. But what’s most interesting is that the title, “A Place of Safety,” hints at the TV series possibly adapting Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World out of order.

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8 Books to Help You Rebuild After an Ecological Catastrophe

So you’ve lived through an ecological disaster that’s drastically changed the world (or at least some corner of it): the water’s dried up, the bees have disappeared, temperatures are soaring, multiple pandemics ravaged the earth, and the oil reserves have gone poof. Now what? Here are eight books that not only take climate change as a given, but that skip ahead a bit and show us the aftermath of environmental cataclysm. A few even offer some possible solutions…

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