- Go AWOL for a week and miss posting about the latest cover issue altogether–that'll teach me. But, of course, the fight to prevent this from happening again continues. So I'll just throw out a couple of links, in case you have been in a coma: Justine's a good place to start (as always, because she has pointers to good posts too) and Liz has a thoughtful new post just up today (again with lots of great links included).
- May I offer a recommendation? The ever fabulous Monica Edinger had a review of Rita Williams-Garcia's BRILLIANT new novel One Crazy Summer in the NYT. Read it, then nab the book. Rita, despite her NBA nod for Jumped, is still criminally underappreciated.
- Awards season is wrapping up, with the release of the Best Books for YA lists. Congratulations to all those included. Many of these are among my favorites of the year, and others are still on my TBR list. And you might also be interested in the Alex Awards list, which selects adult books of particular interest to teens.
- Life Unexpected earning comparisons to Gilmore Girls–the pilot didn't quite have the Amy Sherman-Palladino brilliance to me, but it had tons of heart and a charming cast. I'll keep watching.
- The divine Stephany Aulenback has been posting regularly again, and recently about the book Charmed Bracelets and the difficulty of developing one of her own. I heart charm bracelets; in fact, I still own my mother's from high school, back when they had fancy silver charms. And I believe I still have my horrendous plastic version from elementary school somewhere. Must, dig, out.
- Werner Herzog reads Curious George. Colonialist monkeys for everyone!
- An interesting convo about regional literature at The Nervous Breakdown (which I'm working on an overdue post for). I suspect we would find the sales figures for some successful regional titles shocking in a head to head comparison with some "national bestsellers."
- Next up: books post!
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I have “Charmed Bracelets” – very cool book. My mother gave me her charm bracelet a few years ago. It contains charms from everywhere she and my father visited on their honeymoon (they were in Europe with military), engraved silhouettes for my brother and I when we were born and a charm for our dog Katy, who we got when I was a baby. Basically, it is the first five years of my life on a bracelet, all in silver. I adore it.
I watched “Life Unexpected”–and kept watching, despite the weak start–based entirely on Maureen Ryan’s recommendation, and her assurances that the show gets more interesting over the next few episodes. It does have a nicely schmoopy feel to it, and a decent cast. I like how the daughter bonded with her dad and his goony friends, and I thought Shiri Appleby was surprisingly good, even if I can’t believe she’s old enough to be playing that role. With her and Kerr Smith aboard, the show is like second-generation WB or something.
How cool — I’m going to have to hunt down a copy for sure.
Second generation WB — exactly!