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Ypulse Book Essentials: Audiobooker, 'Brisingr,' 'Janes in Love'

Posted by alli on 08-18-2008

Plain Janes_.jpgJanes in Love (Sequel to the fabulous P.L.A.I.N. Janes. Yay!) (Boing Boing)

- Audiobook enthusiast starts a blog (on what else…audiobooks! LOTS of great info.) (Audiobooker)

- Great expectations (for Christopher Paolini's latest in the "Inheritance Cycle" series, Brisingr. Publishers expecting record sales.) (Market Watch)

- 'My Say: When YA is Not OK' (How young is too young for Gossip Girl and Twilight? This libaraian explains her opinion in Publishers Weekly's new Op/Ed column.)

- More about the mixed messages (regarding sex in the "Twilight" series….) (Globe and Mail)

- Breaking Dawn backlash (I haven't really discussed this much, I don't know what to think. Twlight fans want to return the final book because they don't like it.) (Publishers Weekly)

- Spider Robinson at The Globe and Mail (loooooves Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.)

- 'Sam Mills's top 10 books about the darker side of adolescence' (Author of A Nicer Way to Die compiles an awesome list! I would include some of Robert Cormier too.) (The Guardian)

- Sci-Fi for Young Adults (or not? Great debate about sci-fi labeled YA.) (Boing Boing)

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