Author Raziel Reid Criticized For His Book’s Governor General Literary Award Win More than sixteen hundred people, including some authors, are petitioning to have Reid’s debut young adult novel, When Everything Feels like the Movies, stripped of its Governor General Literary Award win for being “vulgar, offensive and graphic”. The book was recently chosen for CBC’s Canada…
Welcome to Gotham Academy
Gotham Academy Becky Cloonan and Brendan Fletcher DC Comics Gotham Academy is what I like to call DC’s way in with the young adult readership. Of course we have the current run of Batgirl too, but Gotham Academy is a new series with all new characters and it’s outside the influence of DC’s other titles….
The Thursday Book Beat: Another Children’s Division Bites The Dust
Egmont Shutting Down USA Division I covered this in October but at the time, Egmont was hoping to get a buyer to keep the division intact. Sadly, that didn’t pan out. Attempts to sell Egmont USA since October 2014 have not resulted in any final agreements. As a consequence, Egmont has decided to close the…
Showdown In the North: This Year’s Canada Reads Contenders!
Every year the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has its Canada Reads debates where five Canadian panelists defend five titles chosen that year until one is declared victorious. It’s like a literary Hunger Games. It’s goal is to spotlight Canadian literature and past winners have been Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda, Lisa Moore’s February, Lawrence Hill’s The…
The Thursday Book Beat: TIME’s Not So YA but Very White List
TIME’s Not So YA List But Very White List A lot of criticisms from the young adult world when TIME revealed its 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time list. It featured books that weren’t young adult like Charlotte’s Web or Harry Potter. Bustle has done a great write up on it but they mostly…
The Thursday Book Beat: The Future of Libraries Is Digital
Facebook Is Having A Giant Book Club And You’re Invited I’ve already written about this on the site so you can check that out. Any reason to read is a great idea. The Future of Libraries Is A Paperless One This is a great read. Libraries are doing better than the publishing world in responding…
Reading Diaries: Reading Resolutions
We’re doing something a little different for January’s Reading Diaries. Instead of what we’ve been reading, we’re sharing our reading resolutions for 2015. Such as, books or authors we’ve always wanted to read but have never had the chance to, new releases we’re looking forward to, and genres we want to explore. Christa: I went on a huge…
Cool Comics of January
Angel and Faith: Season Ten Volume 1: Where the River Meets the Sea Victor Gischler (W), Derlis Santacruz (A), Michelle Madsen (C) Dark Horse January 6, 2015 Considering that I never particularly cared for Angel or the Angel series, I find myself preferring Angel & Faith to the regular BtVS. Now, that has a lot…
Why The Facebook Book Club Is A Great Idea
Say what you want about Facebook, it’s still a social media platform used by millions of people. When Mark Zuckerberg, its founder, decided to create a book club on the site as part of his New Year’s Resolution, I was excited. Why? Two things: 1) The goal of the book club: We will read a…
#WWACTV: A Discussion Of Netflix’s Marco Polo
Marco Polo is an epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue, and rivalry will be his greatest challenge yet, even as he becomes a…
The Thursday Book Beat: News To Look Out for in 2015
Happy New Year! Today’s Book Beat is structured differently. Instead of giving you the most recent book news, I’ll be giving you a list of news items from 2014 that I think will make a comeback in 2015. BookCon 2015 Last year, we talked a lot about the first annual BookCon, as it fumbled with its less…
The Return of The Binder: Top Ten Things You’ll Find In Mitt Romney’s Binders Full of Women
10. Steven Moffat’s “folder of women.” 9. Irrelevant comics professionals stewing over cosplayers. 8. “Ethics” in Gaming. 7. People who still don’t understand what Feminism is. 6. Journalistic fuck up on sexual assault followed by victim blaming apology. 5. Television telling us it’s morally obligated to believe the accused rapist. 4. Erotic artist’s rendition of a female…