- Sold: I will definitely be reading Rachel Neumeier’s The City in the Lake, the pretty cover of which I’ve admired several times already.
- David Orr on the interaction of poetry and gossip (aka biographical details?), in light of a new edition of Ted Hughes’ letters.
- Shannon Hale writes on why good books vs. bad books is frequently not a useful distinction, especially based on things like trim sizes and cover illustrations and genre.
- What will happen to the big boxes when they go empty and fossilized?
- "Paperback Dreams"– a documentary about the trials and tribulations of indie bookstores.
- What books for 13-year-old boys should be, by a 13-year-old boy in PW: The vampire was always depicted as a menacing badass. That is the kind of book teenage boys want to read. Also good: books with videogame-style plots involving zombie attacks, alien attacks, robot attacks or any excuse to shoot something. Of course, he also says not to skimp on the politics.
- Booklist’s Top 10 first novels for young readers of 2008; good list.
- Meghan’s going to be guesting over at Jeff VanderMeer’s this week. Check her.
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I agree that good books vs. bad books is not a useful distinction if you use idiotic criteria but I’m not sure why anyone needed to point that out.
Possibly because there are still a LOT of people who do it? Note most of the books she’s talking about as being perceived as “bad” are rarely if ever taken seriously in reviewing or criticism.