Blogs:
The Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto: Come for the Lady Gaga, stay for the empowerment - New York magazine has a good article on the expanding world of feminist blogs and how it's inspiring a new generation of young women (and men) who believe in gender equality, much like the consciousness raising groups of 1970's.  There's also list of ( Read more... )

Audiobooks:
The Boyfriend List, by E. Lockhart (****) - [2006] Fifteen-year-old Ruby Oliver never thought of herself as the type of person who might have panic attacks or need to see a shrink. Now here she is writing a list of all the boys she's ever dated, kissed, or thought about, trying to figure out what they have to do with the unfortunate ( Read more... )

Now I don't have to review the movie because this says it all:
Twilight in 15 Minutes.

(It took me more than 15 minutes because of all the laughing, and then trying to breathe and not die while I kept laughing.)

I stopped feeling guilty about my blog reading addiction and decided instead to put it to use posting a list of monthly links I like.

Here’s my list of October posts worth checking out:

1.      Genre-Bending- Laurie Halse Anderson (who wrote Speak and other YA and MG books) explains how she’s able to write and sell books in more than one genre.

2.  ( Read more... )