{"id":1477,"date":"2009-12-11T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:17","slug":"whole-lotta-w00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Whole Lotta W00t! and a Bit of Mourning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is exciting news from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readergirlz.com\">Readergirlz<\/a>. Firstly, they deserve heaping congratulations for being awarded the National Book Foundation&#8217;s first Innovations in Reading prize. (Do NOT miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/readergirlz.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/december-2009-rgz-newsflash.html\">photo and coverage<\/a> of the lovely co-founders accepting the award!) Secondly, this month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readergirlz.com\/issue.html\">featured author<\/a> is the squee-worthy Tamora Pierce, and her Trickster novels <i>Trickster&#8217;s Choice<\/i> and <i>Trickster&#8217;s Queen<\/i>&#8211;which, incidentally, were the first of her novels that I picked up, and then I was hooked.<br \/>Also, did you know that <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com\">Charlotte&#8217;s Library<\/a> has started doing weekly roundups of blog posts about middle-grade fantasy and sci-fi? Go Charlotte! This week&#8217;s roundup is <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/middle-grade-fantasy-and-science.html\">here<\/a>, and features reviews of <i>Blackbringer<\/i> and <i>The Lost Conspiracy<\/i> (which I&#8217;m currently having trouble putting down), a tween mythology book buying guide, and much more. A very worthwhile project.<br \/>Meanwhile, we&#8217;re all reeling, I&#8217;m sure, from the news about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6711111.html\">the demise of Kirkus Reviews<\/a> (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/yatyeechong.blogspot.com\/\">Yat-Yee<\/a> for the link). There&#8217;s already been some interesting Twitter discussion about what the death of traditional reviewing outlets might mean for online and blogging reviewers. I&#8217;m still trying to process what I think about it all.<br \/>And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for now&#8230;I still owe you some book reviews, and I promise to catch up eventually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is exciting news from the Readergirlz. Firstly, they deserve heaping congratulations for being awarded the National Book Foundation&#8217;s first Innovations in Reading prize&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,15,10,73],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views","tag-world-o-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}