Media Dragon: Happy New Year: The sleepers

A joyful present with Malchkeon and a well-remembered Bohemian past—it’s to these things that we raise an Antipodean glass!

Twelve years, not nine, after fleeing communist CzechoSlovakia, a couple return only for the woman's husband to disappear. The Sleepers series Starts with charter 77 in 1977

The Sleeper on SBS: On the cusp of the Velvet Revolution, Marie and her husband Viktor return home in Czechoslovakia after years of exile. After a car accident, Marie wakes up from a coma with no trace of her husband.

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Mashable: “BookTok is revolutionizing the literature world. For the past two years, books have been climbing the charts not on the backs of movie and TV deals or some miraculous PR stunt, but because users on TikTok deemed it worthy. Kristen McLean, the executive director of business development at NPD Books, told the New York Times that TikTok has “made the transition from a novelty to a real anchor for the market.

The whole idea of dominating supermarket shelves, dominating airport stores, dominating the front tables at bookstores, it’s just not really where it’s at in the same way.” According to BookScan, BookTok — the TikTok community of bibliophiles — helped authors sell 20 million books in print in 2021. In 2022, those sales went up 50 percent.”