ION: I was just glancing at the selection for this year's "One Book, One San Diego" program ("a community reading program that aims to bring San Diego County residents closer together through reading and discussing one book"). Previous titles hadn't really caught my attention, but I thought this year's sounded interesting, then I glance at the author's name and it's a guy I went to high school with. Not just went to the same school, we were in a play together and everything! Though we lost touch so in my head he's still a freshman - now he's a published freshman!
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Guess I'll have to participate this year!
Jay Lake has passed away.
The John Green fans might enjoy this extended profile in the New Yorker:
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Yeah, I really loved that piece though it made me think he's never going to get a new novel out with that kind of schedule.
Seriously, that's very counter-productive to a writer's job.
But I am chuffed that three Kenyon authors are on the NYT (various) best seller lists.
John Green, Ransom Riggs and Laura Hillenbrand.
I do love John Green's work (well, the two I've read), but I am so tired of him and The Fault in Our Stars right now. The movie PR is bad enough, but if you're in the YA sphere online, no one has talked about anything BUT John Green (and his influence, etc.) for months.
Which is not to be grumpy about the linked article! Just to say I, personally, am sort of Green'd out at the moment.
I just realized today that John Green is not the same person as John Scalzi
I am so tired of him and The Fault in Our Stars right now. The movie PR is bad enough
I haven't read the book, but I understand from people whose opinion/taste I respect that it's very good. That said, I have ZERO desire to see the Teen Cancer Movie Where At Least One Character is Obviously Going To Die. NOPE.
(Seriously, no one needs to try to change my Philistine mind. I get to decide what kind of emotional beatdown my fiction gives me, and I choose not to see the teen cancer movie.)
I just realized today that John Green is not the same person as John Scalzi
HA!! No, they are very different people. John Scalzi, for instance, is incredibly conscious of his privilege and does everything he can to redirect conversations when people hold him up as Popular Science Fiction Author (who just happens to be a straight white male, hm, why are we talking about him all the time).
I am amused that the same actor plays Shailene Woodley's less-than-endearing brother in Divergent and cancer boyfriend in The Fault in Our Stars. That's got to be weird.
