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You guys: Sweet Valley High: The Musical. For reals. Written by Francine Pascal herself, with a guy from Bon Jovi. Erin of Forever Young Adult acquired a demo CD and hooks us up with surprisingly catchy songs to download (and a script she made up). One of them appears to … Continue reading
Editor Roger Sutton blogs about a new n-word-free edition of Huck Finn, and includes his eloquent 1984 column about an earlier edition that did the same thing: Huck, by Wallace, doesn’t believe “He was a mighty good n____*, Jim was.” Instead, “He was a mighty good man, Jim was.” In … Continue reading
Turns out independent bookstores have a fighting chance: “The potential is for there to be two trends,” [Jessica Stockton Bagnulo of Greenlight Books in Brooklyn] explains. “Digital content — which is ubiquitous and everywhere — and the local, boutique, curated side. And the chain stores unfortunately don’t have the advantage … Continue reading
I just got home after a grueling two days of travel (blizzards at home = thrilling; blizzards while traveling = exhausting) to find a delightful package from my Book Blogger Holiday Swap “secret Santa”! I received a copy of Intimations of Austen: Stories Inspired by the Works of Jane Austen … Continue reading
4 out of 5 When Gen’s mom drags the family to “Frontier Family Camp” for the summer, Gen is sure she’ll hate it. Who wants to spend a summer milking cows and peeing in an outhouse, cut off from her friends and the whole post-1890 world? She can’t stand the … Continue reading
In case you missed the big announcement, buried as it was in the Guardian of the Dead review, I created a YouTube channel. I love doing booktalks — might as well post them here! (Mostly I’m excited about this because it means I figured out how to use iMovie.) I’ll … Continue reading
I just signed up for the Book Blogger Holiday Swap! I figure it’ll be a fun way to get more involved in the scene, as it were (see how I avoided saying “anything-osphere”? …Oh crap). And who doesn’t like getting a surprise package in the mail? If you also blog … Continue reading
Way back in the May/June issue, Horn Book published an article called “Eating Reading Animals” about the prevalence of animals in children’s books and what that means for food choices. It was about books! and food ethics! So duh, I wrote a response, but then I never posted it for … Continue reading
From 100 Scope Notes: pick a verb, pick a photo, make a YA cover! (The author-selection device is kind of creepy, as those appear to maybe be real people’s names. Skip that part.) Please enjoy the gallery, as well. I don’t have any decent photo-editing software on this MacBook (I … Continue reading
This is the funniest thing I have seen in days: Hogwarts Finally Hooks Up the Internet
