Ypulse Book Essentials: 'Losers,' 'Pretty Monsters,' Google Settles
Posted by alli on 10-29-2008
Losers (explores the nerdy life of Jewish outsider Jupiter Glazer, a cross between the two important characters of Phillip Roth: Alexander Portnoy and "Swede" Levov. More importantly, this reviewer concludes, it illustrates how "Judaism has gone mainstream.") (The Jewish Daily Forward)
- Judgeby.com (like a Hot-or-Not for book covers!)
- Really cool interview of Kelly Link (author of Pretty Monsters. I'm checking her out this weekend for sure.) (LA Times)
- Google suit settled (The agreement states that Google will pay the Authors Guild and five major publishers $125 million.) (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Librarian and Libraries get cooler and cooler (as they create space and programs to build community and provide services that are all totally free. I wonder if libraries will see a surge in activity as our impending economic doom becomes more of reality?) (Arizona Republic)
- Free Book Fridays (It's easy. Every Friday they give books away…and they just launched a teen site.)
- DK rocks! (Don't you agree? Soon their Crime Scene Detectives series will be a kids' show for television. Produced by Beyond Productions.) (Cynopsis)
- Amanda Craig recommends (some good and scary books for the Halloween Holiday. Plus Claire Mysko looks back on The Dollhouse Murders, the YA book that really creeped her out) (NY Times, reg. required)
- OMG! (The Jonas Brothers and Walter the Farting Dog…coming to the big screen?! Not to mention The Electric Kool Aid Test, but that's in a different category all together (Powell's)
- Librarian reviews 'Crank' (And assures us this book definitely doesn't glorify drug use.) (Wassau Daily Herrald)
- Oui! (YA book sales up in France.) (Bookseller)
