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Oh wow--letters written to you by your favorite authors? If I were a kid, my head would be exploding! *boom* What a fantastic idea.
Letters in the Mail: FOR KIDS!
From The Rumpus: Letters For Kids is just like Letters In The Mail, except intended for subscribers six years and older. We’re helping people appreciate the post office at a younger age. You or your child will get two letters a month written by middle-grade and young adult authors like Lemony ...
The author of "It's Her Fault" certainly seems to have his head on wrong, but sadly, it's probably not enough reason to fire him. Still disturbing that this guy works with young women. >.
Lunchtime links.
At BookRiot: a high school guidance counselor was fired after self-publishing "a racy, tasteless book titled It’s Her Fault". He's now suing the school district. At Quora: Will public libraries become extinct? Why or why not? Better Book Titles celebrates Banned Books Week. 100+ YA Book Covers ...
You . . . don't . . . have . . . PICTURES??!! *angry sob*
Well, I'm glad you had a good time anyway. :-)
Kidlitcon 2012: New York City.
Can I just say? This weekend? Kidlitcon 2012? Was the first time I'd met any of these bloggers in real life. (And, obviously, the first time they all met me.) I started Bookshelves of Doom in 2004, and have "known" some of these folks for almost as long. But, as I said, it wasn't until just a f...
God Bless Judy Blume. Just goes to show what a little attention and prevention can do. I wish her the most outstanding recovery possible.
Evening links.
Cleaning out my tabs: Literary Tiger Beat: The Dreamiest Male Teen Characters. Um, HELLO, James from Ballad. And also Eugenides. Heavy Medal is back. Pinterest board: Diverse dystopias. Who will create the new normal? "The more diversity there is on book covers, the more normalized those images...
I don't know . . . a goblin girl? Doesn't sound like standard fare to me. Sounds like an underused mythical creature getting their share of the limelight. And, of course, any comparison to DWJ goes on my TBR! :-)
The Peculiars -- Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Lena Mattacascar has grown up knowing that she's different. People rarely let her unusually large hands and feet pass without comment, and those who are polite enough to avoid comment are rarely able to stop themselves from staring. So she's trained herself to hide her feet under her long skir...
I LOVE seemingly-unrelated things that come together in the end! This is going on my TBR. And I love your blog more now that I know you love DWJ. I find it . .. "charming" *giggles and runs away*
Enchanted -- Alethea Kontis
As I'm a sucker for stories that play with fairy tale conventions, Enchanted had me from page one: My name is Sunday Woodcutter, and I am doomed to a happy life. I am the seventh daughter of Jack and Seven Woodcutter, Jack a seventh son and Seven a seventh daughter herself. Papa's dream was t...
Just when I promise I won't "waste time" on the internet for ONE day, you show this video. Now my productivity for the morning is shot! Thanks for the laugh. The girl playing Hermione was great.
Katniss, Bella, Hermione, Lisbeth, Buffy, and Michonne. In one house.
Agreed re: "Sooo 2005." Will the stupidity never end?
That's soooooo 2005.
From the Newcastle Herald: Medowie Christian School has defended a decision to ban witches and warlocks from its annual book week parade and the Harry Potter series from the school library. The school was one of many in the Hunter that marked Book Week this week by asking children to dress up a...
I'm not a fan of "50 Shades" either (not my type of thing), but . . . . book burning? Seriously? Are we trying to emulate Nazi Germany? That's just ridiculous. I'm not crazy about the message the book sends either, but at least in America, you're supposed to have freedom of speech. E.L. James can write what she wants, and you're free to read it or not.
Afternoon links.
Sam Claflin has been cast as Finnick Odair. (<--Yes, I know I'm late on this, but last week was bananas, so I'm catching up!) Fashion designer Phillip Lim has released a comic book to promote his fall line. The Westing Game is today's Kindle Daily Deal. Like me, you probably already have 47 cop...
Great. Another bookmark for my browser. No way I can explore all these great sites at once. You've ruined my morning!! ;-)
24 Library-centric websites...
...compiled by mental_floss.
This sounds like the kind of dark book I can get into--a funny one. Thanks for pointing it out!
Croak -- Gina Damico
After maiming one too many of her classmates, sixteen-year-old Lexington "Lex" Bartleby gets shipped off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer. Unsurprisingly, she is displeased. Shoveling manure may be good for the soul, but Lex would rather watch tv. In her less rag...
Never a dull moment in the "Doom" household, eh? Thanks for the laugh--sorry you had to clean up the, er, um . . . nevermind.
An ordinary evening at our house.
*CHIP* *CHIP* *animals all go into high-alert* Me: Calm down, guys, he's totally outside. Ten minutes pass. *chipmunk tears ass across the living room* Me: You were right, you were right! I take it back! *animals all run in opposite directions* *chipmunk runs under the ottoman my feet are on* *a...
I am sooo glad! I always felt that ending was rather anti-climactic.
Dammit! Stop making me take an interest in Breaking Dawn: Part Two!
From EW: Even devoted readers of Meyer's books are in for a pretty big shock in the final third of the film, when the plot strays from the last novel in a sequence dreamed up by Meyer and longtime screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg one night over dinner. Do you think there'll ACTUALLY BE A FIGHT??...
"What Adults Can Learn from Kids Books" actually made me tear up! What a well-written (and true!) article. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Lunchtime links.
Some of these are older, as I've been offline so much lately: R.L. Stine on what he's been reading lately. Petition: Please add a YA category to the Hugos, please please please please please. What adults can learn from kids' books. See? See? My cat is TOTALLY NORMAL. Joan Rivers REALLY wants ...
Ha-ha--I LOVED the one about authors eating! Mine would be "Ilana Waters and the Hot Pocket." ;-)
Lunchtime links.
How to eat like your favorite authors. (I read the majority of these aloud to Josh, and he almost fell off of the couch.) Liter(art)ure. A Taylor Lautner portrait featured at Regretsy. hello hello books celebrated its first birthday yesterday. (Yay!) Two words: book labyrinth. (Relatedly.) Afte...
Apparently, I need to drop whatever I'm working on and write fan fic! It seems to be the way to fame and fortune these days. That is truly bizarre.
Um. More Twilight fanfiction is coming your way.
From GalleyCat: Indie romance novelist Sylvain Reynard has landed a “substantial seven-figure deal” with Penguin Group’s Berkley imprint for Gabriel’s Inferno and Gabriel’s Rapture, a series that began as Twilight fan fiction. Srsly, click through for the story. Because it's long and bananas a...
This has been a crappy year for authors. Binchy, Sobel, Sendak ... ENOUGH! This is getting sad and freaky :-(
Lunchtime links.
Need more Hunger Games readalikes? The Lawrence Public Library has your back. Speaking of, archery continues to get cooler and cooler. A tumblr devoted to letters from Eagle Scouts who are returning their badges. Reading lists of fictional characters. Maeve Binchy has died. Cirith Ungol. Using ...
Athlete nerds? Wow--who'd a'thunk it? :-)
Nerdfighter at the Olympics!
I give you... Jennifer Pinches:
If I had the money, I would sooo buy that perfume. Watch out, nerdy boys--here I come! ;-)
Lunchtime links.
More bookish perfume. Some fun from The Devil's Dictionary. Today's Kindle Daily Deal is one of my favorites: Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. Neuromancer casting rumors: Mark Wahlberg and Liam Neeson. Printable lists of the 2012 Massachusetts Book Award shortlists. UK SLA - School Libraries in 20...
Sigh. Just another reason to love him. Like I needed one. Thanks for posting!
This has been making the rounds...
...for obvious reasons:
I love updated fairy tales like these. I'm reading a similar one now: Heather Dixon's "Entwined." You may want to check it out, if you haven't already.
Ash -- Malinda Lo
Shortly after twelve-year-old Aisling's mother dies, her father heads off to the Royal City for the summer. When he returns a few months later, he brings his new wife—Lady Isobel Quinn—and her daughters. Although Ash doesn't develop much of a rapport with her new stepmother and stepsisters, sh...
This is great--there are so few books out there that tackle this issue. And good inspiration for me, since I'm thinking of writing a novel that takes place in a mental institution.
Life is but a Dream -- Brian James
When Sabrina was a kid, her parents praised her for her "overactive imagination". But as she hit middle and high school, they grew less and less comfortable hearing about how differently she saw the world, and even with the way she thought, the things she'd grown to believe. So they brought h...
Wow--those are really cute! Sigh...makes me wish I was crafty.
New items in my Etsy shop.
There are pendants made from the awesome 1997 Tales of Terror set, including Mr. Creepazoid Dracula: As well as some pendants made from used stamps, including this great one from the new 2012 Charles Dickens set: Oliver Twist's Mr. Bumble: And I've also updated a bunch of other listings, inc...
Awesome! Just when I was looking for more e-books. And yes, free (with fairies!) is always the right price. ;-)
Currently free for your Kindle...
...on Amazon is The Tree Shepherd's Daughter, which I thought was quite a lot of fun. And, at 0.00¢, the price is right, eh?
I know, right? GR is supposed to be FUN. I'd like to think the folks who read are a better class of people, but apparently, it's getting like "The Hunger Games" out there. No offense to Suzanne Collins, of course :-)
And the newest entrant into the gladiatorial combat that is GoodReads is...
...Stop the GR Bullies. While the idea behind the blog is sound enough—calling out the bullies on GoodReads—some of what they've posted to date, ironically enough, sounds quite a lot like... bullying. There's a difference between critiquing the message—both the content and the method of conveyi...
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