Mini Roundup.

• Don't know how I missed this:  Twenty-five years later, Natalie Babbitt is back.  Her new book is due out next month -- and is about a pirate!  I clearly need to go on a Babbitt kick to celebrate.
• More on the stupid Anne prequel.  I don't care if it's good.  Don't care, don't care, don't care.  It's just WRONG!  Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.  Wrong wrong.  Oh, dear.  I've started frothing again.
• For anyone who didn't see the news over at Fuse (rhyme intended):  Chris Columbus is gearing up to direct the movie version of Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief.  (Thanks for the reminder, Heather!)

Comments

[Erin]

Anne prequel? I'm worried. I really want to read the author's other stuff to see if I even want to check out what she'll do with my Anne or if I want to stay far far away and never let it into my conciousness. If it's anything like that third Anne movie that completely left the books behind and transported Anne and Gilbert to twenty years later and had Anne doing stuff her youngest daughter did (this is where I get a little frothy) I will have to scream. And be glad LMM and Colleen Dewhurst aren't here to see it.

[Kelly Fineman]

Natalie Babbitt's book is already at my local Borders -- saw it this morning, in fact.

[Paula]

I would never, ever read Before Green Gables. This is fan fiction - if the author wants to write it and put it on a web site like everybody else, good for her. Then it's just her own relationship with the text. But it shouldn't be published and sold as though it's some kind of authorized version - I agree, that's wrong. And I think it takes away from readers. Why can't everybody imagine their own Before Green Gables? I totally disagree with her descendants who said she would have approved of this - by the end of her life, she was sick of the Anne books anyway, and I can't imagine that she would want someone else writing another one.

Can you tell I feel strongly about this?

[Faithful Reader from Canada]

Anne is a piece of Canadian history, in my opinion. To mess with that is just plain WRONG.

[Little Willow]

I try to be open-minded and allowing, but ANNE PREQUEL? NOT ALLOWED. Ahem.

[Little Willow]

P.S. Showed a customer the T-shirts at your blog yester, and she cracked up.

[Leila]

Yeah, Kelly -- it's listed to ship immediately at both Powell's and Amazon, though it also is listed with a May pub date. Beats me.

[Charlotte]

I looked at the Anne prequel link. Ack. The author said she recently re-read the books, as if it was an above and beyond thing to do. I have no hope for it.