The Splendor Falls, by Rosemary Clement-Moore
One of my least favorite romantic clichés is the Relentlessly Average Heroine. Teen literature is full of these girls: boring, hapless “heroines” whose appeal is limited to some passive attr...
Meg Cabot loves Maud Hart Lovelace, too.
(As all thinking women should.)And speaking of those awesome Betsy-Tacy reprints, Meg Cabot recently gave the series a really nice shout-out in the Wall Street Journal.
An artist's canvas (shoes)
Wow. Handpainted converse with the Twilight actors on 'em, costing $125? Will this particular cottage industry ever bottom out? [Via my new favorite site: Regretsy]
Literary tone-deafness
I usually like Salon, but sometimes their stuff irritates the hell out of me. Take this recent article on Lise Haines’ new novel Girl in the Arena, which kicks off with the following lines:"Girl i...
The ladies love him...
The New York Times asks: Is Archie Andrews a bigamist? I ask: who cares?
Emma's reviews are in
And they're not pretty. AustenBlog readers have weighed in on the first episode (of four) of the most recent TV adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, and they're tossing around phrases like "huge disa...
Judy Blume overshares
...at least, we expect the friend she mentions in her response to the Deenie question in this otherwise excellent interview thinks so. That's the kind of anecdote that probably should have remaine...
Good clean fun?
So, the film adaptation for the first book in Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak series is coming out, and I'm not sure what to think:On one hand, the trailer is strangely hokey*, but on the other, tho...
All prettied up
Dude, they've repackaged Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books for adults!Actually, I don't know if they've done the whole series or just the titles featuring Betsy in her teen years and later, bu...
A manga in the hand...
If you don't like reading manga online, the paperback copy of the first volume of Rin-ne, the latest work from Rumiko Takahashi, will be out on October 20th. I've really been enjoying this series...
Girls on skates
If you've got anywhere between nine and thirteen dollars burning a hole in your pocket this evening (depending on how outrageously expensive your local movie theater is), you might check out Whip ...
Here's hoping they invest in better CGI than the New Moon producers
We've had a review copy of Maggie Stiefvater's novel Shiver floating around Wordcandy HQ for a few months now*, so I was interested to see that it's been picked up by the producers of the Lord of ...
Want to win a copy of The Other Mr. Darcy?
Then brush up on your Austen trivia, because Sourcebooks is having a contest to celebrate the release of Monica Fairview's new novel The Other Mr. Darcy. Beginning today, Ms. Fairview's blog will ...
Stephen King takes over the airwaves... again.
Yet another Stephen King book will be hitting the small screen--in this case, his novella The Colorado Kid is being turned into an hourlong TV series called Haven.According to Variety, "the projec...
A. S. Byatt returns
Hey, check it out--A. S. Byatt has written her first full-length novel in years, and it's due out next week:Beautiful cover, sure-to-be depressing subject matter... aw, we've missed you, A.S. Byatt!
The more the merrier?
Oh, look. Another book about Elizabeth worrying that she has lost Mr. Darcy to the charms of another. Just what the world needs!Five bucks says the central plot twist of this Pride and Prejudice c...
Minor points
Before I get to the complaining, let me first state that I am sincerely delighted Yen Press has picked up the license for Yotsuba&!, which is one of our all-time favorite series. Thanks, Yen Press...
At long last...
Wasn't M.T. Anderson promising to release this over a year ago?We'd say better late than never... but this is VERY LATE, MR. ANDERSON.Note: Also, what is up with burying Jasper Dash and The Flame-...
Baking Bites goes big-time
Nicole Weston, whose Baking Bites blog has been destroying diets since 2004, has decided to release a cookbook. The book is self-published and will ship in late October. It contains 51 recipes, ...
If at first you don't succeed...
Since Jennifer's Body tanked at the box office, Diablo Cody has apparently decided to inflict her (highly questionable) talent for creating teen-girl dialogue on a very different style of story: s...
Highs and lows
Slate has set out to answer a question I've been wondering about myself: what's with all the recent articles proclaiming vampires some kind of "new craze"? Haven't they been a consistent craze? (T...
Trompe l'oeil
I don't know about this, dear readers:Sure, I like books... but I also like cereal, and I wouldn't paint a mural of that on my garage, either.[Via the Los Angeles Times]
A gift from Lisa Kleypas
(Is it just me, or has Lisa Kleypas's website gotten more tasteful again? Man, don't you guys miss it back when it looked like this? Good times...)Anyway, if you take a gander at Ms. Kleypas's s...
Grossly unfair
Speaking of upcoming book releases, there seem to be a huge number of Wordcandy books coming out this fall/winter, many of which come as a pleasant surprise (and an overdue reminder that we need t...
Fantasy revival
Heeeeey, they've finally reprinted L.J. Smith's Dark Visions series! I'm sure I can thank the success of the CW's cheese-tastic Vampire Diaries for this, and it raises a more important question: i...
A literary take on San Francisco
Apartment Therapy wrote a post last week featuring the following print:This image of San Francisco was commissioned by the San Francisco Chronicle. Artist Ian Huebert borrowed literary quotes from...