Wednesday Web Wanderings (13)

This is a collection of interesting book-related things I've come across online recently. Check 'em out!

• Watch the Mockingjay trailer...less than a month until its release!
• This is a pretty sweet librarian tattoo, don't you think? 
• My favorite tweet of the week, courtesy of author Maureen Johnson
• Five trends that have made the leap to subgenre status
• YA book cover trends at Shelf Talker
• My childhood best friend and I used to play "library" - now there's a Let's Play Library toy set!
• Awful Library Books of the week: Boys Have Feelings Too and Everything You Need to Know about Growing Up Female
• Anne Frank's diary will become a graphic novel
• NPR explains why the next big pop-culture wave might be libraries
• NPR shares some laugh-out-loud summer reads
• A classmate of mine shared a few great links this week - Pinkbooks (a bibliography of gay and lesbian YA books) and Native American Books (a bibliography of YA books by and about Native Americans)
• The Onion on eBooks  
• The Canadian Council on Learning reports that comics have a role in boosting literacy among boys
• Desert Book Chick gives us five reasons to read the classics
• Reading with Tequila shares classics written by women (beyond Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters)
• The YA5 ask: Can assigned reading ever be fun?
• YALSA asks, Why YA? Personal stories from current YA librarians
• Current and future librarians, did you know about the public service employees loan forgiveness program? 
• Stories like this one make me sick. Boo censorship! Especially when it comes from within the library profession. 

Fun videos!

• Jane Austen's Fight Club
• Grammar School with Snooki (courtesy of author John Green)
• Flash Mob at the Seattle Public Library
• SNL's American Enterprise skit about Barnes & Noble (this was new to me since I caught the rerun this weekend)