bookshelves of doom

Hunger Games PSAs.

This was my favorite, but there are many others at CollegeHumor:

Speaking of, Josh just finished reading the book, and now he wants a 'Team Capitol' shirt. (Because he's contrary like that.)

Good news: A new Sarah Dessen book.

Bad news: it's not due out until next May.

From PW (via Sarah Dessen's tumblr):

The Best After Ever, which will be released in May 2013. Set in the fictional beach town of Colby, where several of Dessen’s novels take place, it features 18-year-old Emmeline, who is spending her last summer before college working for her family’s vacation rental business and enjoying a summer romance with a young aspiring filmmaker.

David Tennant is back...

...in my Etsy shop:

Pooh is also back:

And they've been joined by Ayn Rand and Buckminster Fuller, among others.

Which book changed your life and when?

At Ask Reddit.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Although there were other books in which I'd caught glimpses of myself*, Anastasia Krupnik was the first book I ever felt was actually, secretly about me.

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*A Wrinkle in Time, Girl with the Silver Eyes, Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet books.

The Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year goes to...

...Cooking with Poo.

ALERT: Awesome book.

Yeah, so, whenever I find myself giving Josh a play-by-play of a book that lasts longer than it actually took me to read said book, I know I've got a winner on my hands.

So be sure not to miss Robin LaFevers' Grave Mercy.

I mean, EVEN THE TAGLINE IS AWESOME.

*squees*

*flails*

*faints*

More to come, obviously.

Favor?

Okay, I never ask you guys for stuff like this, but (<--obviously there was a 'but' coming), would y'all be dears and vote for Bubbles (of Trailer Park Boys fame) TO GO INTO SPACE?

Please?

Margaret Wise Brown on children.

At Salon:

"Well, I don’t especially like children, either. At least not as a group. I won’t let anybody get away with anything just because he is little."

*falls over laughing*

Blackwood cover reveal.

I am dying to read this book.

DYING.

I mean, I was anyway, just due to the description, what with the Roanoke and the voices of the dead and the misfit girl and the teen criminal and the alchemists and the feds... but now, the beautiful cover has me swooning all over my living room:

If you are also dying to read it, the Book Smugglers are running an ARC giveaway!

Full disclosure: Although we've never met in person, I consider Gwenda a friend. But, come on. A plot line that includes all of those things AND a cover like that? So totally up my alley. I'd even give it a try if John Grisham wrote it.

Kindle Daily Deal: 11 YA titles.

I may have picked up a few...

Clearing out more links.

How do I end up with so many tabs open? I ask you.

• YA Highway looks at celebrity lookalikes on YA covers.
• Justine Larbalestier's I'll Know I've Made it as a Writer When...
• The Minnesota parents who challenged And Tango Makes Three in the Rochester school system will not be re-filing their challenge. From now on, one of the parents has to be present whenever the student checks books out of the library.
• Follow along as the first chapter of Cassandra Clare's City of Lost Souls is revealed over the course of the next few days.
• Quora: Does The Hunger Games set a bad example for using violence as conflict resolution?
• Quora: How much does a book's originality matter?
• Study suggests that e-readers may help to spur interest in reading among male reluctant readers.
• Right on, Hemingway: "I humiliated him as he should be humiliated, omit details."

Crabby movie critic...

...gets stomped on by commenters.

Lemony Snicket's new book.

I wasn't a big fan of the Series of Unfortunate Events, but I do dig this cover art:

(via USA Today)

YALSA's 2012 Best of the Best Reading Challenge.

From The Hub:

Our reading challenge can be both completed and conquered. To complete the challenge, read or listen to 25 of the 80 titles before the deadline. Everyone who completes the challenge will be invited to submit a reader response (which can be text, audio, video, graphics, or some combination) to his or her favorite (or least favorite!) Best of the Best title, which we’ll publish here on The Hub. Additionally, everyone who completes the challenge will be entered into a random drawing to win our grand prize: a YALSA tote bag full of 2011 and 2012 YA lit titles! (If you’re a librarian or teacher, we’ll also toss in a couple of professional development titles.)

Before you ask: only titles read during the challenge period count towards the total, so if you've already read a ton of them, you'll need to either re-read them or read others.

PS. I really, really dislike this whole sign-in-to-access-the-YALSA-booklists thing. Aren't we librarians supposed to make information easily accessible?

Seriously, what's wrong with people?

Someone stole the Lorax statue from the Dr. Seuss estate.

WHAT KIND OF MONSTER STEALS FROM DR. SEUSS??