I'm going to BEA again this year. If anyone wants to go Saturday as a Power Reader (or for the whole thing, if you fit their criteria) and meet up afterward for dinner or something, let me know!

BEA is BookExpo America, where you basically go and meet your favorite authors and get books that haven't come out yet signed and people HAND YOU BOOKS ( Read more... )

What are your favorites? Mine is definitely and forever Clue.

BEA piled some amazing books on me this year, as did my book clubs, and there were some fantastic sequels that came out too ( Read more... )

OTT=Off-Topic Thanksgiving :)

I hope you're having a lovely time with your families. If not (whether because they suck or you're far from them), feel free to comment here and talk books. Or respond to Zee's Cloud Atlas spoiler post. Movie discussion begins tomorrow, I think ( Read more... )

The theme is Dystopia. We are reading 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks, who I know best from his voices on The Simpsons and Defending Your Life ( Read more... )

Questions here ( Read more... )

I think we should have a meet-up at the Book Expo in NYC. Pick a day, grab a day pass, and go get ALL the books! Also, R.L. Stine will be there! Should I tell him how much his "grown-up" book sucked? It was sooo bad. Just so, so bad.

Mo Willems will be there, and Sarah Dessen, and I am basically in heaven. I've been told you just bring a ( Read more... )

Whatcha reading? Whatcha looking forward to? Did anyone see that Atwood's putting out another book set in her Oryx & Crake universe? Is it wrong that every time she puts out a new book I'm like "OH GOD THIS COULD BE THE LAST ONE"? I know 73 is not that old, but I'm dreading a literary world without her in it.

I'm almost done The Well of ( Read more... )

Who's doing it? How are you doing? Add me! (bookslide)

So I was not expecting there to be no quotation marks in this whole book. It's a big off-putting, and I'm not really sure it adds anything ( Read more... )