- I mentioned the ToB and the Battle of the Kids' Books way back when, but I failed to mention that the DABWAHA is also going on, as is the all-important and ever-hilarious Fug Madness.
- Sid Fleischman died last week. If you haven't read By the Great Horn Spoon, get cracking. PRAISEWORTHY!!
- According to the BBC, Dennis Hopper is terminally ill. C'MON, NEWS. GIVE ME SOMETHING HAPPY. Oh, okay: Reading Rainbow might come back, Stephen Moffat is working on a modern-day Sherlock Holmes show, and Jen Robinson's positive review of Kiss Me, Kill Me* reminded me that book three is due out soon. YAY yay yay yay yay yay yay. (I'm too tired for exclamation points, but trust me, I'm doing a happy dance on the inside.)
- Kitty Crowther has won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature.
- Surprise! Philip Pullman has been getting "you're going to burn in hell" hate mail because of his new book.
- I made these last night (with only a third of the salt -- TRUST ME, you don't want to use the amount that they call for, because, GROSS) and A) my father called while my hands were full of bean stuff and was completely horrified that I was planning to voluntarily eat ANYTHING bean related (he has issues) and B) I'm thinking about wandering into the kitchen to snag some leftovers but I probably won't because I'm lazy. Wow, this is a scintillating post, isn't it? It's, like, the epitome of why people pooh-pooh blogging.
- There's a new adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time in the works. I'm not holding my breath. Meg Murry is the Queen of Awesome and I have no hope that they'll get her right. Actually, let's make that negative hope.
- Alison Goodman's fantastic Eon: Dragoneye Reborn is on the Utah Beehive YA Book Award shortlist. YAR. I'm always glad to see that one get love. Do we know when the second book will be available?
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*Read the second one, Jen -- it gets EVEN CRAZIER.
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I totally read Eon at your recommendation, and AM SO GLAD I DID. Brilliant. I have NO IDEA why everyone hasn't aalready read it....unless perhaps it's because of the unfortunate cover...
Posted by: beth | 25 March 2010 at 08:38 AM
I'm HOPING that they change the cover when the paperback comes out in August -- there's no image available yet at Amazon...
Posted by: Leila | 25 March 2010 at 08:40 AM
OK, Leila. If you are THIS enthusiastic about it, I'll move the second on up on my list. I have it here in the house, which makes that much easier, of course. Thanks for the recommendation!
Posted by: Jen Robinson | 25 March 2010 at 12:50 PM
I hope you get as big a kick out of it as I did -- there's something about the combination of mean girls, boarding school and hard-boiled mystery that just slays me. (And the second one involves an ancestral estate!)
Posted by: Leila | 25 March 2010 at 01:29 PM
Hey, I'm going to try the black bean cakes - but with pinto beans because that's what I have at the moment. I'm a big fan of huevos rancheros, and this looks like an updated version. Yay!
Posted by: tanita | 25 March 2010 at 01:55 PM
Oh good grief - how have I missed the "Kiss Me, Kill Me" bandwagon? Totally off of this one and now MUST CATCH UP!!! Also, can I just say how excited I am about the new Holmes/Watson? Can't wait for that to show up over here (it was apparently sold in the US - imagine on BBC America?)
I so love Holmes.
As to Meg Murray on the big screen - it scares the crap out of me, plain and simple.
Posted by: Colleen | 27 March 2010 at 06:25 PM