bookshelves of doom

Two Dollar Read: Jellicoe Road.

The Kindle edition of Melina Marchetta's brilliant—YES, BRILLANT—Jellicoe Road is currently $1.99.

So, if you haven't read it (or if you want yet another copy), snag it while you can.

From my long-ago post about it:

Melina Marchetta's writing is top-notch, spot-on, perfect-a-mundo, beautiful, her characters are believable, so real that less than twenty pages in, I forgot I was reading a novel—both because I was so involved in the story that I felt like a bystander and because the characters were so immediately real to me. 

The Snot Awards.

Erin Bow, at The Book Smugglers:

I get that it is a compliment, to tell authors that you cry. And I get that we want books that make us cry. I do, anyway. Just not necessarily in front of dozens of strangers.

This is why I am proposing a new literary award. It is to be called the SNOT award. Given to STORIES NOT to be read ON TRANSIT, the SNOT shall honor and mark books that will make you ugly-cry while on a crowded cross-town bus.

The SNOT sticker will be gold and embossed, and will stand as both a ringing endorsement and a useful warning.

AND IT SHOULD HAVE TAGGLE ON IT.

Letters of Note covers...

...correspondence related to the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders.

The Fault in Our Stars movie will be directed by...

...Josh Boone.

At the Hollywood Reporter:

Whispers of Boone’s involvement surfaced over the weekend when a series of tweets connected Green, a big social networker, Boone and actress Shailene Woodley (The Descendants).

Some of the roles in The Book Thief film have been cast.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson are set to topline Fox 2000’s adaptation of Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel The Book Thief.

French-Canadian actress Sophie Nelisse, who appeared in Monsieur Lahzar, will make her English-language debut as the title character in the World War II drama being directed by Brian Percival (Downton Abbey).

Please don't mess it up. Please don't mess it up. Pleasedontmessitup...

(via GalleyCat)

Today @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity.

AND OH MY GOD, you need to run (seriously, RUN) to your bookseller of choice (or your library), and line up your copy RIGHT. NOW.

DO IT.

IT IS UNBELIEVABLY GOOD IN EVERY WAY, AND WHEN YOU FINISH IT, I GUARANTEE THAT YOU'LL FLIP TO THE BEGINNING AND START IT AGAIN.

Congratulations to Plain Kate! (And to Erin Bow, of course.)

From the CBC:

Russian-flavoured historical fantasy Plain Kate has won the $25,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

Please don't tell me you haven't read Plain Kate yet.

Better yet, DO. Then I'll know exactly who to harass.