Some bookish and non-bookish musings this Sunday morning.
My email program’s spell check, for some reason, has decided that I speak French. It’s actually quite frustrating that I can’t figure out how to convince it that I don’t actually speak French. And now Firefox is acting up. (So far I’ve misspelled: spell, some, reason, that, speak, quite, and now…. go figure.a)
In case you haven’t heard, Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations has come up with a list of The Best Young Adult Books of 2009, as inpsired by Kelly at YAnnabe’s Unsung YA list. Full disclosure: somehow I was asked to participate on this list, and I did send a book in. It’s still a quite brilliant list, though. And stick around to check out the site a bit.
Quite a few people have signed up for our Catcher in the Rye read along which starts next Sunday. Here’s a list of the people who’ll be participating so far:
Amanda at The Zen Leaf
Heather at Tales of a Capricious Reader
Jackie at Farmlane Books
Rob at Books are Like Candy Corn
Nan’s Corner of the Web
Rmlrhonda
Beth at Thinking of Thinking
Kim at Page After Page
Suko at Suko’s Notebook
Bree at The Things We Read
Jill at Fizzy Thoughts
Corinne at The Book Nest
You know you want to join in!
Want to know what C, M and I are all excited for this Friday? The Lightning Thief opens! Squee! Here’s a bit of a teaser…
Oh, and while you’re waiting, why not find out your demigod power? (Me, I’m the child of Grover. Kind of odd, but I think I like it.)
What’s on your mind today?
The Book Nut 
LOL I'm apparently the child of Hades. 😀 Morrigan and I are stoked about this movie!
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I'm looking forward to reading along with you!
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Y'know, I was asked to chime in on a Flashlight Worthy list (at the last minute, might I add – they sent the email and then required the submission within three days) and then the list (to my knowledge) never appeared on the site. Rather annoying since I spent the time to write something up without any notice…
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I can't find my copy of Catcher in the Rye anywhere!! I am hoping to borrow one from someone at work, or I'll be buying a new copy between now and next Sunday! LOL
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Congratulations on being asked to participate in the YA list! This is great news and I really enjoyed the book you chose to include.
🙂
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My Word program at work decided to spell check in French the other day…totally bizarre. And my co-worker said his was spell checking in Spanish.
I bought my copy of Catcher in the Rye the other day…can't wait!
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It was so fun to see what everyone picked for the list! I'm the child of Grover too. 🙂
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Abby-
The list I asked you to contribute to wasn't the best YA of 2009 — it was the best of 2009 (of any genre) as chosen by librarians.
That list hasn't appeared yet as participation was… lackluster. (For some reason, librarian bloggers aren't as responsive as AY bloggers) I haven't given up hope yet — I'm working on getting a few more submissions and when the list goes live, I'll let you know.
Peter
(The guy who runs Flashlight Worthy)
http://www.FlashlightWorthyBooks.com
Recommending books so good, they'll keep you up past your bedtime. 😉
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