Yesterday we hosted a fantastic interview with Lizzie Skurnick and Nancy Pearl on our Blog Talk Radio show (you might have read about it here and here). Nancy and Lizzie dished on both popular and underrated YA classics, and there was certainly plenty to talk about. If you didn't get a chance to tune in, the show is now archived for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
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Bloggers are buzzing about our latest Blog Talk Radio interview! Tomorrow, on Wednesday September 23rd at 3 pm EST, librarian extraordinaire Nancy Pearl will be interviewing Lizzie Skurnick, Jezebel contributor and the author of Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading. A special thanks to the following bloggers who have helped spread the word: Pop Culture Junkie, Five Minutes for Books, Galleysmith, A Reader's Respite, Books, Movies and Chinese Food, Booking Mama, Bookfan, and Everyday I Write the Book.
If you'd like to write or call into the interview, we'll send you a complimentary copy of Shelf Discovery. Just be sure to register here before the show starts. Click here for info on the interview, check out Lizzie's love letter to librarians, and be sure to browse inside.
-Kayleigh
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If you were unable to attend our title presentation at ALA in Chicago this past July, fear not! We’re bringing our book buzz to you! Click on the links below to watch us talk about the hot books coming out in Fall 2009. Each link is about 10 minutes long and we’ve listed the titles being discussed in each video. Also attached is the handout that we made available to all attendees of the presentation.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, Academy Award nominations, etc.
Thanks!
-Virginia, Bobby and Kayleigh
Video 1A
Included in this video: Introduction, information on HarperCollins Catalogs, eGalleys, Book Club Girl, Library Love Fest (radio show), twitter (HarperLibrary), HarperLibrary's blog (Library Love Fest), Shelf Help, Kayleigh’s blog (The Roaring 20s), Earlyword.com and Harper Perennial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2vF140GVoQ
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1A)
Video 1B
Included in this video: Information on Harper Perennial, and the following titles, Shelf Discovery, by Lizzie Skurnick, By The Time You Read This, by Lola Jaye, and Lies My Mother Never Told Me, by Kaylie Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUe2jl8-sxE
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1B)
Video 1C
Titles included in this video: Bending Towards the Sun, by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, Under This Unbroken Sky, by Shandi Mitchell, Evidence of Murder, by Lisa Black, How to Paint a Dead Man, by Sarah Hall and I Shudder, by Paul Rudnick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZIX7h_a8WI
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1C)
Video 1D
Titles included in this video: Beneath the Bleeding, by Val McDermid, The Financial Lives of Poets, by Jess Walter, Anne Frank, by Francine Prose and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX-b-Eh06c0
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1D)
Video 1E
Titles included in this video: Not Lost Forever, by Carmina Salcido, Manhood for Amateurs, by Michael Chabon and Hummingbirds, by Joshua Gaylord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjbIu4n5k3Y
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1E)
Video 1F
Titles included in this video: Far from Zion, by Charles London, I am neurotic (and so are you), by Lianna Kong, The Hidden, by Tobias Hill, The Sand Fish, by Maha Gargash, Ten Storey Love Song,by Richard Milward and The Body in the Sleigh, by Katherine Hall Page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQgzm6b72TE
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1F)
Video 1G
Titles included in this video: Notes Left Behind, by Brooke and Keith Desserich, The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver, Lit, by Mary Karr, Wishin’ and Hopin’, by Wally Lamb and This Book is Overdue!, by Marilyn Johnson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOV0CKk68A
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1G)
Video 1H
Titles included in this video: Be Careful What You Pray For, by Kimberla Lawson Roby, Gator A-Go-Go, by Tim Dorsey, Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich, and Horns, by Joe Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmUlveJzyU
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1H)
Video 1I
Titles included in this video: Encore, Valentine, by Adriana Trigiani, Making Toast, by Roger Rosenblatt, The Lovers, by Vendela Vida and A Pearl in the Storm, by Tori Murden McClure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6Sp0HEWk0
Download ALA Title Presentation (Part 1I)
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The following is a love letter to librarians from Lizzie Skurnick, author of the recently published Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, a sentimental look-back to the children’s and YA books we loved in our youth.
Who could forget Beverly Cleary’s Fifteen and Lois Duncan’s When the Bough Breaks -- books that dealt with the lives and dramas of adolescent girls on their own terms, in their own worlds?
Shelf Discovery is a funny look at these important and, for many adolescent girls, life-changing books. It includes essays from other writers on their favorite well-and little-known teen books and authors, in-depth essays about the leading teen authors, a cover gallery, “extra credit” reading lists, plus an online component with Q&As from famous YA authors featured in the book, vintage cover art, a “plotfinder” section, recipes for unforgettable meals from YA books (Harriet’s tomato sandwich, anyone?), book club guides, and a place for readers to post their own memories and insights.
So…to the lucky first 25 who reply to this post, we will send a complimentary copy of Shelf Discovery. We’d love to hear what you think of this trip down memory lane, so send in your reviews and we’ll gladly post them. Happy Reading!
Dear Librarian,
I can still remember the exact cover of the book (pink plastic dust jacket, fraying) and where it was shelved (fourth bookcase on the right towards the back, middle of the second shelf from top). The spine had long since been rubbed to illegibility, and, looked at from the side, the crumbling pages were jagged, like teeth. The condition of the book may have been due to the fact that my grade school library in Englewood, NJ simply was in dire need of funding. But I suspect I inflicted much of this damage personally—since for a period of some months, that copy of Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl was, twice a week, the only one I ever stamped out.
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