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From the CSM:
Awwwwwww.NASA began a new chapter of its Martian chronicle Aug. 22 when the agency named its Mars rover Curiosity's landing site after the late science fiction author Ray Bradbury.
Curiosity's landing site inside Mars' vast Gale Crater was rechristened "Bradbury Landing" to honor the iconic writer's legacy and dedication to Mars exploration, NASA officials said.
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From anneofgreengables.com:
72-year old Robert Montgomery, a distant relative of Lucy Maud, is the current owner. He says the museum is no longer making money and that it is time to part with this house of memories. According to an interview with the National Post, the asking price for this house is $349,000.More here.
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Except for the color, which I totally can't wear it BECAUSE HELLO, IT'S YELLOW*, this is my new favorite t-shirt.
So, someone out there should buy it and wear it so that I can vicariously enjoy it.
Thanks in advance.
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*Yellow makes me look like I'm dead. Actually, it makes me look worse than dead. It makes me look like I'm DECOMPOSING.
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'Ho', as in, "Land, ho!" Not the other kind.
Anyway.
Here's an excerpt of Blackwood, by the lovely Gwenda Bond:
Click on through for excerpts from other Strange Chemistry titles.
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Amazon is now running a Kindle Daily Deal specifically for children's books?
SCORE.
Today's pick is the first Bartimaeus book. Which is actually a title that I'd prefer in print format (all of those footnotes!), but cool nonetheless.
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From Neatorama:
Her scheme includes categories such as “Pony History” and “Classics.” It’s unclear whether this is her own classification scheme or one standard throughout libraries in Equestria. But it is, at least, a good start on making information resources accessible to patrons.
*dies*
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His novel is the Kindle Daily Deal today, so if you've been meaning/wanting to buy it, today's the day.
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The one about the publicity campaign for the YA book with the blackface video?
It's been going on for weeks (or longer?) now, but I only just stumbled across it due to the Io9 link above.
Yikers.
From what I've seen—and yes, this is based solely on only having read articles/essays/rants (and, to be fair-minded, the author's rebuttal) about it and being excruciatingly uncomfortable while watching the video—it does look hugely problematic. But I'd love to hear from someone who's actually read the whole book.
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...I wrote about Allen Zadoff's Since You Left Me, which I enjoyed enormously:
Sure, it’s a plotline straight out of an episode of Saved By the Bell, but it isn’t the plotline that makes Allen Zadoff's Since You Left Me special: it’s Sanskrit’s voice. As he lies and lies and lies, as he works through his heartache, deals with his family and comes to terms with his feelings about religion and responsibility, his voice is so snarkily hilarious that you’ll laugh through all of the painful moments. At least, I did.
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Best thing about waking up this morning to a flat tire, finding out that the MASSIVE NAIL that caused the flat went in at exactly the right place to disallow a patch, requiring an all-new, MASSIVELY EXPENSIVE tire, suckitude exacerbated by the fact that my car is all-wheel drive, so getting a NEW tire is tantamount to getting FOUR new tires?
Sitting for an hour and a half at the car dealership waiting for the tire thing to be dealt with (along with an oil change) allowed me to finally start reading Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which is hilarious and profane and decidedly un-maudlin (so far), and made me laugh so much that the other lady at my picnic table* asked for the title and wrote it down.
Okay, if I'm going to be honest, the book was the second best thing. The dealership happened to have the exact tire I needed at exactly the right wear level, so I drove out of there elated rather than totally, in-the-abyss level destitute and depressed.
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*I love you, Patriot Subaru. An outdoor waiting area complete with friendly dogs? Non-pushy employees who are genuinely helpful, seem to enjoy their jobs, and each other? A VEGETABLE PLATTER?? (<--That was on a different visit.)
**For reals, Patriot Subaru. As I told the guy at the counter, MY HERO(ES).
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...is Shannon Hale's Midnight in Austenland, the follow-up to Austenland.
Which reminds me, I really need to read that.
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The Hollywood Reporter reports (<--Heh.) that ABC is developing a Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer reboot described as "an adventure-themed reinvention that revolves around the two famed literary characters who re-meet as young men in their 20s and form an investigative firm in a bustling and steampunk New Orleans".
If done well, it could be loads of fun.
If not, well, we can just mock it.
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...to adults, according to LitReactor.
The Westing Game, scary? I don't think so. And I don't think of Lord of the Flies as a children's book.
I do find Coraline (which isn't on the list) terrifying, though. Same goes for the Scary Stories books (which are also not on the list).
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