I just finished reading an interesting blog post from Editorial Anonymous (EA), where he/she states that the Coretta Scott King (CSK) Award may no longer be necessary. The CSK award is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and honors African-American authors. EA states this in the post:
Giving an award for creating art about the experience [...]

I saw Star Trek last weekend and was totally geeked out about it. It also didn’t hurt that Spock is super hot in this movie. Give the casting director an A+ for putting Zachary Quinto in that role. Yes, I’m a Trekkie! I got it honest from my mother, who is a science fiction fanatic. [...]

Being the queen of diversion and procrastination, I love playing with Wordle. They say it’s “beautiful word clouds.” I say word eye candy.
The most used words are the most prominent. A snap shot of words. Sort of cool to do with poems or scenes from novels.
Here’s my Wordle using text from last week’s [...]

Yesterday, I was reading a post from Laure Halse Anderson’s blog, one of my favorites. She had mentioned that her latest book, Wintergirls, had been reviewed in the NY Times.
Now it seems it has created a conversation about if this book, which is about anorexia, will trigger eating disorders in young girls.
I read Wintergirls [...]

I was reading this article on the NY Times about book pirating. Seems like there is an increase of people posting digital books on the web for free—sort of like Napster did with MP3’s. I didn’t realize that this be could be an issue since books are such a different format from music. But technology [...]