Lunchtime links.

• At Fuse #8: Newbery/Caldecott Predictions.
• At YA Highway: YA Pumpkin Carving Contest (with bonus stencils!).
• At Educating Alice: Are Children's Books So Stylistically Different from Books for Adults?
• New (to me) tumblr hilarity: Life in Publishing.
• William Faulkner's estate is suing Sony over Woody Allen's use of a Faulkner quote in Midnight in Paris. Which makes the estate look short-sighted, petty, humorless, and dumb.
• Weird Library News: Gun Found Inside Hollowed-Out Book Donated To Indiana Library.
• The Random House/Penguin merger is a go.
• Spoiler alert: The biggest changes from Cloud Atlas the book to Cloud Atlas the movie.