bookshelves of doom

The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity.

From the Guardian:

Together with the American Library Association, he is therefore setting up a new $3,000 (£1,800) award, The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity. "The Snicket prize will remind readers everywhere of the joyous importance of librarians and the trouble that is all too frequently unleashed upon them," said Snicket, who is funding the prize from his own "disreputable gains".

"This seems like a better way to channel money to librarians than my previous strategy, which was incurring exorbitant late fees," said the author. The winner will also receive "an odd, symbolic object" from Snicket's "private stash", he said, "as well as a certificate, which may or may not be suitable for framing".

Heh.

As I do really enjoy Daniel Handler's shenanigans, I really should give the Series of Unfortunate Events another chance.

Weird find of the day.

SIGGGGGGGGGGGGH. And also GAAAG. I'm not going to go into the whole boy books/girl books/let's please stop assigning genders to books because HOLY COW and also YEESH:

But, as I'm sure you know, it's not all that unusual to find books marketed like that NOW, let alone in the early '90s, so no, that's not the weird aspect of this find.

Here's the back cover:

AND NOW, THE FRONT COVER (AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE AUTHOR REVEAL):

I wonder if this is where his horror career began. I mean, this premise kind of already has him halfway there, right? Just turn Ernie into a soul-sucking demon or make those twins into evil replicants or make the couch carnivorous, and BAM: instant Goosebumps title.

Anyway, I'm fascinated. So I'll take it home and let you know how it goes.

Today @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about what I've been reading to combat my winter blues.

Feel free to give me some recommendations, as I've been feeling SOMEWHAT LOW.

(Not in an unusually bad way. Just in an It's January And We Still Have February And March To Look Forward To way. In other words, BLAH AND ALSO BLERG.)

Trailer: The Fault in Our Stars.

 

I admit to getting a little choked up.

Yesterday @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about Ruth Warburton's Witch Finder, which apparently, I belatedly discovered, isn't going to be published in the US.

Or at least, there aren't plans currently in the works to publish it here.

Which made me think about two things:

1. I have become REALLY spoiled by how easy it is to track down books.

2. What OTHER books am I missing out on, and how do I easily keep track of their whats and their whens and their wheres?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Am I at Midwinter?

Sadly, no.

But happily, I'm:

• Wearing my pajamas
• On my couch
• Drinking a cup of tea
• With a cat on my lap
• Waiting for the 2014 ALA Youth Media Awards to start streaming

OOO! Five minute warning!

A few pictures from last night's Lego Club.

This month's theme was SPACE!

Even though I suspect that this patron's creations were unrelated, I love the possibility that she might have been imagining a 'bridge' on a space ship as a 'bridge' between land masses. So awesome. And, MAN, I am going to have to keep an eye out for more Lego flames, because HOLY COW THEY ARE POPULAR:

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I love that the astronaut is already floating off of his seat:

I can't wait for next month. SO MUCH FUN, GUYS.