Discussion Post # 73
1. Happy Saturday! Reminder: the book for this month is Ready Player One and it is really entertaining. So you should read it.
2. Still seeking ideas for what we can do to celebrate the community's second anniversary in November. Any and all ideas welcome.
3. Link dump of doom: A Book Cover in Time: The Changing Art of our Childhood Reads. The definitive Lurlene McDaniel drinking game. Authors, please avoide these mistakes when you self-publish. The overdetermined hero. What the ebook settlement means for publishers, Apple and you. The slowest reader. Harper Collins reaches new agreements with Amazon and others. Why NPR's list of greatest young adult fiction was so white. Changes brought about by 50 Shades. The best book reviews movie can buy. What kind of book reader are you? A diagnostics guide. LeVar Burton on Reviving Reading Rainbow. Brave New World (or What I've learned about cover designs for digital publishing. Adults are devouring kids books for good reason. Social media suicide. The BSC, then and now. A word about introductions... or do I mean modes of speech. Is this book bad or is it just me?. Is young adult the new chick lit. Sarah Rees Brennan on the differences between 19th century and contemporary fiction. Do reviewers target female readers.
4. Discussion question (or not): where do you stand on rereading childhood favorites? Do you not do it for fear that they won't hold up? Do you read them and they do? Do you read them and find the magic gone? Some of both? Etc.
5. Have fun!
2. Still seeking ideas for what we can do to celebrate the community's second anniversary in November. Any and all ideas welcome.
3. Link dump of doom: A Book Cover in Time: The Changing Art of our Childhood Reads. The definitive Lurlene McDaniel drinking game. Authors, please avoide these mistakes when you self-publish. The overdetermined hero. What the ebook settlement means for publishers, Apple and you. The slowest reader. Harper Collins reaches new agreements with Amazon and others. Why NPR's list of greatest young adult fiction was so white. Changes brought about by 50 Shades. The best book reviews movie can buy. What kind of book reader are you? A diagnostics guide. LeVar Burton on Reviving Reading Rainbow. Brave New World (or What I've learned about cover designs for digital publishing. Adults are devouring kids books for good reason. Social media suicide. The BSC, then and now. A word about introductions... or do I mean modes of speech. Is this book bad or is it just me?. Is young adult the new chick lit. Sarah Rees Brennan on the differences between 19th century and contemporary fiction. Do reviewers target female readers.
4. Discussion question (or not): where do you stand on rereading childhood favorites? Do you not do it for fear that they won't hold up? Do you read them and they do? Do you read them and find the magic gone? Some of both? Etc.
5. Have fun!