- Bookshelf Porn - A collection of all the best bookshelf photos for people who *heart* bookshelves.
- My favorite Awful Library Books of the week: Womenfolk and Fairy Tales and Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy? (Check out the second one for the hilarious cover!)
- Here's an awesomely bad book cover I found at my own library this week in the SciFi/Fantasy collection - On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers (It's a skeleton with a peg leg! And a parrot! It cracks me up.)
- Chicago Public Library Commissioner reacts to Fox Chicago's news story (which questioned need for libraries...grrr)
- GalleyCat shares some library card art found on Etsy
- Amazon shares its list of the Best Books of 2010...So Far
- Speaking of Amazon, if you are currently enrolled in a university, you can sign up for Amazon Student and receive unlimited FREE 2-day shipping for an entire year! This is good news for me as a poor grad student who loves to order books from Amazon.
- Barnes & Noble will be introducing NOOKStudy eBook software for textbooks & notes
- The Barnes & Noble Review has a great list of mysteries for teens
- Booklist has video of the 2010 Printz speeches (including YA authors Adam Rapp, Deborah Heiligman, Rick Yancey, John Barnes, and Libba Bray)
- YA author Libba Bray is rocking out on the cover of School Library Journal this month
- Goodreads is "In Bed" with YA author Maggie Stiefvater
- As I read The Iron King
by Julie Kagawa, I've referred to this interesting information about faerie lore on her website
- Shelf Awareness reports on how hashtags could save publishing and shares some funny quotes from bookstore bingo (I don't Tweet yet, but reading articles like these makes me want to get in on all the Twitter fun!)
- Library Girl Reads is having a CSN stores giveaway! Enter for your chance to win $70 gift card.
- Angie Frazier is having a Super Mega YA Giveaway! Lots of signed books and swag! Check out her book trailer for Everlasting below. (Click on the video to go to Youtube and see it full screen!)
This week in my YA lit class we're reading graphic novels & novels in verse. Here are some links I came across on these formats:
- Art Spiegelman collaborates with Pilobolus Dance Troupe
- Harvey Pekar passed away this week and is remembered by The Washington Post
- Simon & Schuster has a sampling of verse novels from authors Lisa Schroder, Ellen Hopkins, Sonya Sones, Terra Elan McVoy, Carol Lynch Williams, and Steven Herrick
3 comments:
Two things - first, I covet all those bookshelves at Bookshelf Porn. It made me all giddy ;)
2nd - thanks for the heads up about Amazon shipping for students! That is gonna be VERY helpful! (Especially around Christmas!)
Great post! I'm already an Amazon prime member but next year I won't PAY for it since I'm a student again. Nice to know!
Good post! The student thing is awesome; my sis is going to college, and she'll be excited to hear about this!
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