There’s nothing I like more than a massive link roundup late on a Tuesday night. Okay, maybe that’s the glass of wine talking, or the ginormous backlog of items I’ve accumulated in my “stuff to blog” e-mail folder. Either way, hope you enjoy. Some of these aren’t exactly hot off the press, but of course they’re worth a look.<\/p>\n
This is actually from a couple of weeks ago, via Jen Robinson’s Book Page<\/a>, but it’s applicable any time, any place, especially for those of you who want to do more to support your local independent bookstore: check out Readergirl Justina Chen Headley’s Fab Five Ways to Support Your Local Bookstore<\/a>. Now, if only my local independent<\/a> sold new books as well as used…<\/p>\n If you’re curious about ALA winners A.M. Jenkins, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, Marisa Montes, Yuyi Morales, and others, take a look at this Cynsations post<\/a> rounding up some of Cynthia’s interviews with the lucky and talented parties. And, speaking of titles with the ALA seal of approval, cruise by Bildungsroman<\/a> for a list of the ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers 2008<\/a>. Some are clearly well-deserved, some were surprises to me, and some…well, let’s just say my to-read list has grown yet again. Thanks, ALA. No, really!<\/p>\n In case your New Year’s Resolutions are off to a slow start, you can always gain inspiration from others–via LW come some creative and bookish resolutions<\/a> from others around the kidlitosphere. And if you’re feeling extra ambitious, check out the Day Zero<\/a> project…I know for a fact I’m not that ambitious!!<\/p>\n Lastly, just for fun, on a blog I recently discovered called Acephalous<\/a> (even the name cracks me up), a collaborative noir novel<\/a>, blog-style. Definitely good for a laugh. And on that note…might as well go to bed with a smile on my face!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s nothing I like more than a massive link roundup late on a Tuesday night. Okay, maybe that’s the glass of wine talking, or…<\/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":[2,7,65,15,10,73],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-author-news","tag-interviews","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views","tag-world-o-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","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=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}