book in/into
phrasal verb
booked in/into; booking in/into; books in/into
British
: to arrive at and be given a room in a hotel, an inn, etc. : check in
We booked in shortly after noon.
We booked into our hotel shortly after noon.
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Boggs recalls how finding Baldwin’s only children’s book in a Yale library as a college student led him to track down the volume’s illustrator, the French artist Yoran Cazac, Baldwin’s last great love.
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Fiction Non Fiction
august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
The landmark Beatles Anthology collection will get a major refresh this fall with the re-release of the original eight-part series, Anthology music collection and Beatles Anthology book in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the project.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Aug. 2025
Oyeyemi’s prose is propelled by a subtle animism; her sentences sometimes seem to contain the whole book in miniature.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The notes devoted to Orlando Furioso could be a short critical book in their own right.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
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Fiction Non Fiction
august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
The landmark Beatles Anthology collection will get a major refresh this fall with the re-release of the original eight-part series, Anthology music collection and Beatles Anthology book in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the project.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Aug. 2025
Oyeyemi’s prose is propelled by a subtle animism; her sentences sometimes seem to contain the whole book in miniature.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The notes devoted to Orlando Furioso could be a short critical book in their own right.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
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“Book in/into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/book%20in%2Finto. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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