YA Wednesday: Done with Vampires?
by Heidi
on November 18, 2009
Tonight at the National Book Awards ceremony, GalleyCat "prowled the red carpet" asking the nominees: What do you think of the Twilight books?
Quick links...
Phillip Hoose wins the National Book Award in the young readers category for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
Shona, a blogger, starts the Rory Gilmore Books Project, in which she sets out to read 260 books mentioned, shown, or joked about on the Gilmore Girls. (via Book-a-rama.)
Variety calls New Moon, the movie, "as good as Twilight and arguably a shade better."
The Daily Beast compiles a photo gallery of the Best Twilight Tattoos. (via GalleyCat.)
Tired of vampires yet? You're not the only one. Stephenie Meyer tells Oprah.com: "I'm a little burned out on vampires right now."
Happy reading!--Heidi
Brian - Kafkacotton on November 19, 2009 at 03:48 PM
It's fun to see the more curmudgeonly authors try not to say anything bad about Twilight. I think people reading is great - Twilight is not cannibalizing other sales, it's expanding the pie. For the rest of us, there will always be more great books out there than time to read them.