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Firefly: Still Flying Keeps the 'Verse Alive

Firefly fans, take note!  A love letter/companion book to Joss Whedon's series has come out, and it's... shiny.

Winners! Of Our Autographed "Didn't I Feed You Yesterday?" Book Giveaway

 Entries kept on rolling in until literally seconds before our 9am deadline, but now is time for our three lucky winners to be determined by a heartless random integer generating algorithm on the Internet...

Librarians Do Gaga Redux

 Librarians are awesome for many reasons, and here's one more:

Hey, Remember That Kid From That Movie-Story That Never Ended? [Where Are They Now?]

I read your comments and the overwhelming nomination from last week for my Where Are They Now series was Atreyu from the Neverending Story. That's Die unendliche Geschichte for our German readers.  I live to give, folks.  I live to give.  Except there are limits, and that's all the German I know.  Except schweinerhünd.  But that's another story.

So, where's Atreyu now?

Bret Easton Ellis Doesn't Think Too Highly of Female Directors

Perhaps I'm just getting bitter and/or more nonchalant in my old age, but when Bret Easton Ellis says stuff like he doesn't think, in general, that women can direct, I don't get angry. I just kind of shrug and tell him to quit talking and go write some messed up book for me to read kthanxbi.

The Giving Tree Has a Polarizing Effect

I don't think The Giving Tree was in my reading rotation when I was a kid, but someone gave it to me when I had my son, and it's since become one of my favorites.

WIN Kitty Kelley's Unauthorized Biography About Oprah Winfrey, Teenage Prostitute

Kitty Kelley, notorious "poison pen" biographer of celebrities and politicians, has turned her journalistic gaze upon one Oprah Winfrey, and, if I can make a guess, it's not going to be pretty. Once someone starts throwing the words "teen prostitute" into a bag with the words "Oprah Winfrey", I think we can safely say that nice just flies right out the window.

Want to win a copy of Kelley's Oprah for your very own? Read on! 

Flashback Friday - Are You There God? Edition

 Today's Flashback Friday is brought to you by interfaith marriage and feminine hygiene products.

Nicholas Sparks? PUT THE PEN DOWN

   I am going to get vicious hatemail for this, but I simply cannot stay silent any longer. It's time for an intervention, and I happen to be RILLY good at those. Nicholas Sparks? It's time to put down the pen.

Best Sex Writing 2010: Sex Writing Is Sexy, And Reading Sex Writing Is Pretty Sexy, Too

I am going to admit something that I find personally quite embarrassing: until recently, I had not been able to make it through an entire book in well over a year. There. I said it.

So, when I was sent a copy of Best Sex Writing 2010 for review, it was a tall order, given my recent inability to finish a book, but I thought that whether or not I was able to read the whole thing would stand as a barometer for its ability to engage me.

Guess what: sexual content is engaging, and I READ THE WHOLE THING.

I Can Has Psychic Powers That Foretell Death

So Grey's Anatomy wasn't on, forcing me to explore the vast reaches of popular culture for writing fodder and, of course, I found a cat who predicts death.

I know the internet thrives on funny cats. Ha ha ha. Cats. But this cat, Oscar, is no laughing matter. If he snuggles you, you're fucked. I don't even like looking at his picture.

Y'all? Hogwarts, Quiddich, and Fire Whiskey is REAL. (Well, Maybe Not the Fire Whiskey)

 Like so many others, I am trapped in my home today by approximately seventy billion inches of snow, so in order not to end up sleddogging to the nearest mental hospital, I started looking at summery things to do. And that's when I found it. "Harry Potter's Wizarding World." MAGIC IS REAL, YALL.

Kate Gosselin Is Coming Out with Another Book, And She Just Cut Off Her Stupid Hair Extensions, Because She Knows I Am So Right

Of course, you can't see Kate Gosselin's stupid hair extensions in the picture at the left, because that photo was taken prior to her stupid hair extensions when she had that other stupid hair that everyone mocked with Halloween wigs and she put out that other book called Multiple Blessings, only they put an 8 in for one of the Ses so the title read Multiple Bles8ings, which made it look more like Multiple Bleedings, but what do I know about publishing books?

Anyway, Kate Gosselin, formerly of the reality television show Jon & Kate Plus 8 and now a BESTSELLING AUTHOR — omigod, really? — is coming out with a third book.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Author, Dead at 91

I for one am done with the literary greats dying this week, thanks. sigh.

Flashback Friday - Choose Your Own Adventure Edition

 I was kind of a giant bookworm growing up, and these books were the poo.