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Odds & Ends On The Web: August 25th Edition

8/25/2012

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Looking for a blogging home?  Our friends over at Badass Book Reviews are looking for one or two new bloggers – go check them out!

Yet another news outlet is attempting to round up a best-of list, this time for “best novel of all time” – Huffington Post is inviting their readers to vote on this shortlist, which they’ve arranged bracket-style.  I have no idea how they decided which books should go head to head, but as expected there are dissenters in the comments.

Vacuous Minx once again sheds light on goodreads’ practices – this time in part one of a two part series investigating their overall motives.  Are they more interested in drawing in business from authors/publishers or are they concerned about maintaining the space for readers as they claim?

The Guardian covers the recent controversy surrounding possible racism in Victoria Foyt’s upcoming YA novel Revealing Eden.

Proving that even New York Times best-selling authors with major film deals can get miffed and act immaturely about negative reviews, Emily Giffin and her husband stirred up some drama last week when he posted a comment on a very short negative review on Amazon which, in my opinion, was pretty fair and did not attack Emily Giffin personally in any way.  Blogger Corey Ann, who later became a target in this hullaballoo, recaps everything on her blog.

And, because I generally feel the need to follow up the author misbehavior items in these posts with fun and distracting things:

Check out this endlessly fun YA dystopia generator from telophase.  I just generated this surefire bestseller for some aspiring book packager out there:  “Whimper: Stamps have been banned and the government controls bird watching.”

I love this tumblr: Literary Jukebox, which pairs a quote with a song each day.

The shortlist for the Queensland Literary Awards was released and Kirsty Eagar, Margo Lanagan, and Vikki Wakefield are all nominated in the young adult category.

My final item on the fun list – am I the only one who finds this incredibly exciting?  (Nerd alert.)  Published in Science last week, Harvard University scientists announced that they’d converted a 53,000 word book into DNA!  Thus proving that I am right in the years long debate between my husband and I – there’s nothing that we can invent that nature hasn’t already accomplished one hundred times better. 

And my final item for the day – just to toot our own horn a little bit – a great blog from the Manhattan Public Library, Little Apple Bookworm, wrote about using our flowchart for discovering new YA titles.  Hooray!

Hope you all are having a great weekend!  Let us know what’s happening in your various corners of the internet!


9 Comments
Regina link
8/25/2012 04:03:31 am

Great round up of stories. Thanks for providing me with some Saturday in between soccer game reads!

And thanks for the link to our Help Wanted. All book addicts please apply.

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Regina link
8/25/2012 04:04:54 am

I am replying to my own past. That bracketing for the best novel ever at Huntington is bizarre.

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Catie (The Readventurer) link
8/25/2012 08:00:08 am

Isn't it? It's so random which ones they chose to go up against each other. I wish I could vote both of them through on some, neither through on others.

Soccer season has begun! Haha, at least they're all going back to school soon, right?

VeganYANerds link
8/25/2012 08:12:08 am

It's awesome that the MPL blogged about your flow chart! And I laughed out loud at the book you generated! I went and had a go Flight: Words of more than two syllables have been banned and the government controls lawn chairs.

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Regina link
8/25/2012 08:19:12 am

The oldest 3 did start this past week and the youngest starts in a little over a week. My husband stays at home with them, so he is relieved. For me it is harder work in the morning to get those stinkers out the door. :)

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Maja
8/25/2012 08:22:16 pm

Hah! The flowchart is conquering the world!
Also, come on, they will never write a book in which the government controls bird watching. It would be too scary! People have their limit, you know. Hunger games, ok. Killing kids for body parts - that we can handle. But no bird watching? Insanity.

Here's mine:
Teenagers have been banned and the government controls imports.

Teenagers banned? That actually sounds kinda nice.

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Maggie, Young Adult Anonymous link
8/26/2012 06:08:42 am

That flowchart needs to be sold in poster form. It rivals Ken Dietz's.

I'm so disappointed in Emily Giffin. I didn't know anything about her outside of her books, but what I do know now makes me not want to read her again. "Get me Susan Lucci's number." Give me a break.

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Liza link
8/26/2012 08:52:49 am

I loved the flow chart and am sharing it with coworkers of mine from the English Department.

If you're ever able to make it in poster form or happen to update it, let me know. You know, it's not that crazy of an idea to get it in poster form.

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Adina link
9/1/2012 10:17:30 pm

I am so impressed with your flow chart. Incredible :)

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