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Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog "BSL! Mayster Johann Gowere ys on me lyk galauntyne on a pyk. Nowe by alle the sayntz he stoopeth so lowe that he leaveth barbede commentes on myn blogge."

The Guardian has a brief profile of P.G. wodehouse.

Sharing the Love: How publishers are re-branding adult fiction for younger readers (Thanks to my mom for this link!) I've gotta say, I think McNally Robinson's practice of having two teen sections, one by the kids' books and one by the adult books with some selected adult titles included, is a fantastic idea.

Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference "Clara Breed, a children's librarian in San Diego, never married and never had any children. At least none of her own. But until her death in 1994, at 88, she talked about 'her children,' dozens of them, Japanese-Americans who were sent to incarceration camps during World War II."

Holy comic books! Saints are the latest superheroes "A chisel-jawed man with flowing chestnut-brown locks, rippling muscles and a penchant for 'endless parties' stares from the cover of the latest comic book. This is not Superman or one of the traditional superheroes, but St Francis of Assisi, the pious 13th century monk who became the Roman Catholic patron saint of animals and the environment. This is sainthood: comic book style." O_o

HarperCollins, Tokyopop Ink Manga Deal "In a startling move that not only highlights the sales potential of book format comics but also gives almost every major New York publishing house a significant graphic novel program, HarperCollins will take over the distribution of the Tokyopop manga list to the North American book trade. But this is also a publishing deal—Tokyopop and HarperCollins will develop manga adaptations of selected HarperCollins titles beginning with the bestselling young adult novels of Meg Cabot." Meg Cabot's books as manga. Hmm. This could either be very good or very bad.

Speaking of Meg Cabot, she's got a sneak peek of Princess Diaries 7: Party Princess up at her blog. "Then I explained about how much I value my life, and how I do not care for it to be cut short by an enraged hapkido brown-belt valedictorian with monkey-like strength in her upper torso (even if, by killing and/or maiming me, she would actually be doing me a favor, since then I wouldn't have to live with the humiliation of having my boyfriend forsake me because I am not a party girl)." Hee.

Where rejected greeting cards go to die Among the rejects: 'Hi! Welcome back from your coma!'

Some more Nancy Drew icons here. Also, Trixie Belden icons, and Neil Gaiman quote icons here and here.

From the land of WTF, I give you Celebrity Jedi Chefs. This amuses me greatly.

[livejournal.com profile] jetwolf is very lucky, because [livejournal.com profile] ultrace is making truffles for her again. check out his recipe and experimentation.

Speaking of recipes, I stumbled across Spicy Steve's Asian recipes on CBC BC's site while looking for something else entirely. Lots of stuff here I want to try!

I've got a slew of fanfic recs for later. But for now, I need food.

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Date: 2006-03-29 05:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perian.livejournal.com
I like the idea of having two teen sections, but the *logistics* of it would be a nightmare. I have a hard enough time getting my staff to shelve things in the right sections as it is! Then again, if we didn't have head office and their... inventive categorizing, it might be easier. They put a tax book in fiction!

I also very happy to hear that HarperCollins will be distributing TokyoPop, but more for the "yay, we won't have to wait for CDS shipments anymore!" factor than the thought of manga adaptions. I'll wait and see how badly they mangle them. *grin*

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Date: 2006-03-30 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daemonluna.livejournal.com
From a library perspective, it would only work in a large central or branch library (and not so much if the adult and teen books are on different floors), and even then... it would work really well for booklists and displays, though.

One of my favourite inexplicable quirks of bizarre cataloguing is how the UofA libraries have (or used to, at any rate) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in the law library.

I'm hoping HarperCollins' attempts will be similiar to the Babysitters' Club graphic novel from Scholastic, which is a surprisingly good adaptation. Other than the general coolness of having graphic novels, they are awesome for reluctant readers who are way below grade level, and ESL students. And one of my two schools is 1/6 ESL.

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Date: 2006-03-31 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perian.livejournal.com
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in the law library

Bwahahaha! That's perfect!
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daemonluna.livejournal.com
I know--I wish I were buying books for a middle school or junior high so I could get that one. Also awesome and vaguely tangentially related--the picture book The Librarian of Basra.

(Incidentally, I am still meaning to feel out that RAvenclare House application!)

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