Links.

• A note to authors:  Don't let your curly-haired characters brush their hair.  Thank you, Elizabeth.  It needed to be said.
• The Carnegie Medal shortlist.  Boys, boys, boys.  Man.  I am really behind in my reading.
• The Bridget Zinn Auction is running through this month.  Be sure to stop over and check out the items up for bid.
• The Edgar Award winners were announced last week.  John Green is going to have to buy a bigger mantelpiece.
• The brand-happy Mackenzie Blue makes her debut tomorrow.
• Cecil Castellucci covers the Jane Smiley/S.E. Hinton interview.  (via Liz B., who, as always, has many thoughts on the subject.)

Comments

[Brooke]

Woop -- so glad to see that I'm not the only person in the world who views Paper Towns primarily as a mystery novel. Still, I am muchly bewildered by the nominees in the Juvenile category. Whither Enola Holmes? Cat Royal? Echo Falls?

[Paige Y.]

Make yourself read the rest. Yes, you will mourn when the whole series is over, but they just get better and better -- especially the last book which I adored.

You haven't finished the seventh season of Buffy? Where did you stop? While it isn't perfect, I must say I loved much about this season.

[Elizabeth]

Thanks for helping to disseminate our correction of the straight-haired conventional wisdom!

[N]

Hah! I do the same thing. I put off reading The King of Attolia for four years before I finally forced myself to read it (and I loved it.)

Only to find out that a fourth book is forthecoming. I wonder how long it will take me to read that one.