Archive for 'Reading is Sexy' Category
Please believe me when I tell you that she already owns Goodnight Moon
27 November 2011In our first two years after college, my group of friends went through what I consider to be a pretty typical period of pathological attachment to one another as we tried to avoid the inevitable slide into renters’ insurance and grad school and career paths and general adulthood. For that time we couldn’t go more [...]
Oh, is that what it’s like?: A history of my failure to accurately describe books using other books
8 November 2011It’s about zombies in the same way that Jurassic Park is about dinosaurs, which is to say that it’s really about humanity and the haunting fear that our inner natures will bring about our destruction much faster than any common threat to us as a group in the same way that Jurassic Park is really [...]
all the time in the world
7 July 2010Kids, I’ve got some free time on my hands. I won’t go into the details for a variety of reasons largely related to the legal document I signed granting me all this free time and my hunch that it’s somehow contingent on me not getting all Internet Jerry Maguire about it, and also my struggle to find [...]
Cause I’m saving all my love for you, F. Scott Fitzgerald
25 January 2010I look forward to going to the airport the way normal people look forward to leaving the airport. It’s a weird happy place, but it’s MY happy place, and this is a good thing because my job allows me to visit quite a few of them over the course of the year. As long as [...]
Nerd Oscars
19 January 2010I have a finite number of goals that I need to accomplish in children’s publishing before I can retire and rededicate my life to something like working as a professional assassin or finding a grant that will support me while I break the world record for Most Hours Logged In Excel. One of those goals [...]
Just in time for Easter- everyone’s coming back from the dead
9 April 2009They made fun of me when I became obsessed with zombies, didn’t they. “What happened to pirates?” they asked. “How many weird obsessions can one seemingly otherwise-normal urban 20something have?” They laughed when I bought both versions of Dawn of the Dead on DVD and watched them back to back, and they rolled their eyes [...]
Shelf Awareness
8 April 2009So, long story, but I might apply to go to business school part time. I know, right? What a perfect place for someone whose ideal day would be sleeping for 16 hours and reading Sarah Dessen novels/ watching A Double Shot At Love in between naps. This might be the dumbest idea I had since [...]
In which I abuse the word “fantastic”
15 March 2009I’ve been on a Thank You kick lately. The last time this happened all of my targets were fairly obvious– people who had hosted dinners, given me windup toys as presents, etc–but for this round I seem to be leaning towards the somewhat obscure. A few weeks ago, after attending the Spelling & Grammar Bee [...]
I am the newbery and so can you!
5 February 2009God bless Maggie for sending this to me this morning– here’s Stephen Colbert getting mad he lost the Newbery to Neil Gaiman. “Hey, I’ve got a great children’s book, too! It’s called F**k It, We’re All Going To Die.” Unrelated, And Awesome: My favorite part of my office building is the board in the caf [...]
It’s like the superbowl for those of us who reread Phantom Tollbooth every year
27 January 2009Yesterday was the ALA awards (for those of you who read above a 6th grade level– (a) I feel bad for you, son and (b) those are the awards that decide which children’s books get those gold and silver stickers that will make librarians and teachers love them for decades. It’s their fault that you [...]