{"id":2896,"date":"2006-08-07T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:39","slug":"in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"In brief…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Comic Stephen Pastis<\/a> reminds us that though Madonna<\/a> did it, NOT EVERYONE SHOULD WRITE CHILDREN’S LITERATURE!<\/strong>
Stop it now<\/em>, Rat.<\/p>\n

A goody from NPR This Weekend is an excerpt from Daniel Woodrell’s ‘Winter’s Bone’<\/a>. It’s garnering comparisons to True Grit<\/i><\/a> and Dicey’s Song<\/i><\/a>, and is described as well-articulated teen angst. Sounds promising!<\/p>\n

I really wish I’d saved the Contra Costa paper the other day — someone took a picture of a church marquee that read ‘Believe it or not — it is NOT hotter than hell!’<\/strong><\/em> Well, it’s hot…enough lately to boost book sales. Seriously<\/a>. What else should you do when it’s too hot to even run the TV? Read!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the L.A. Times<\/a> reports that teens are …bored. A new Los Angeles Times\/Bloomberg poll, the first in a series of annual entertainment surveys, finds that a large majority of the 12- to 24-year-olds surveyed are bored with their entertainment choices some or most of the time, and a substantial minority think that even in a kajillion-channel universe, they don’t have nearly enough options. “I feel bored like all the time, ’cause there is like nothing to do,” said Shannon Carlson, 13, of Warren, Ohio, a respondent who has an array of gadgets, equipment and entertainment options at her disposal but can’t ward off ennui.<\/i><\/p>\n

Methinks it’s time somebody<\/i> went to the library! At least that’s what my<\/i> mother always said if I dared<\/i> to even mention the ‘b-word’ between June and August: “Want to write me a book report?” Thanks, Mom.<\/p>\n

On a related topic, those bored teens listening to music and not reading better watch out. Another study in the DUH<\/a> category says there are other<\/i> things ennui-ridden teens are encouraged to do in our hypersexualized culture. Really? Seriously? Who knew?<\/p>\n

This has to have been the shortest summer on record. How did it get so late so soon?!
Happy Monday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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