'Beneath You'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I was poking around to see if there was a release date for the next Skulduggery Pleasant book, and apparently it is August 29 (I assume that's UK, not America), and it has a title -- Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men.
So, I'm all excited about this, and THEN I see the author has a novella about Tanith Low being released at the end of this month: [link] (Again, pretty sure that's just UK.)
Holy crap, a book about Tanith. (And, one assumes, Billy-Ray Sanguine.) I am SO THRILLED.
Oooh, thanks for posting that, Steph! I have a feeling I would have missed out entirely until someone mentioned having read them otherwise...
It was sheer luck. I just got curious and started reading the author's blog, and lo and behold. A Tanith book! Yay!
All of the Chronicles of Narnia are on kindle for $1.99 today.
The Orange Prize long list.
Our school got into a grant-funded program to promote early literacy, and I've been asked to coordinate it, and so I have to make a list of 640 unique books for K-3 readers that I'd like them to buy us. And it's actually really really hard to choose THAT many books all at once! I am up to 240 after a couple of afternoons of hard work. It's made a bit harder by the budget - I have to be *really* selective about picture books, since they run about $8 over the "average" price per book I have to spend, and I have to only buy books available through a certain vendor so I can't price-hunt.
Still, books!
Post what you've chosen so far, maybe, and we can chime in with suggestions?
Here's my spreadsheet: [link]
I am also hampered by my limited background in early childhood education (i.e. none). I want to take a preliminary list to the teachers, with whom I'm meeting Weds., to get some feedback about grade choices. Note the 3rd graders are gifted and test at 95%ile or above, so I've cheated up a bit with some of their choices.
So far I've been working off of books I know, and the lists for Common Core exemplary texts and ALA notable books.
Has anyone been reading Scalzi's "The Human Division?" It is a multi-part book that has been released in chunks on Amazon (perhaps other outlets as well?)
I have been enjoying it. I'm about halfway through (on part 5 or 6). Overall, I find this an interesting way to release a book. I am not sure if Scalzi had this in mind when he wrote it, but it very much feels like a written form tv mini-series in that each part has a beginning, middle, and end, but the parts seem to be tied together well enough. The parts seemed really unrelated, but around now the relationships are coming together in an interesting fashion.