Insomnia randomness.
- 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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