Google+ Bookslingers Blog: podvod
Showing posts with label podvod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podvod. Show all posts

The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #24: Murder, murder, murder

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


Congratulations CLA Book Award winners! (Dear CLA, your website needs some work.)

It's TD Book Week, so check out bookweek.ca for events in your community.

If you don't know about WikiWars and the way female American Authors is being divided into "American Authors" and "American Women Authors," and you really enjoy being infuriated, you might want to check that out.

Puffin is releasing new editions of four beloved Canadian children's classics! Included are Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson, Mama's Going To Buy You A Mockingbird by Jean Little, Run by Eric Walters (which oops, neither of us has ever read) and Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker. And none of them has an inexplicable buxom blonde on the front, so they're already a vast improvement on the last time somebody tried to revive a Canadian children's classic *coughAnneofGreenGablescough*.

This week's book is the latest and greatest (maybe? my feelings are confused) in the Flavia De Luce series by Alan Bradley: Speaking from among the Bones. If that title gives you the shivers, you're already in just the right mood for this book.

Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #23: Dragony intrigue and another in the long list of authors that make us feel inadequate

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels: , , , , ,



Aaaaaaaaaand we're back! Our first podcast of 2013! Wooooo!

Yes, our iTunes feed still appears to be broken. No, we don't know why. Yes, we are working on it. Sorry!

While we were away, the 2012 Cybils were awarded. The Early Chapter Book winner, Sadie and Ratz by Sonya Hartnett (illustrated by Ann James), includes the scariest shadow puppets in living memory.

Are you reading Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong? Because you should be. Written by Prudence Shen and drawn by Faith Erin Hicks! Politics! Chainsaws! Killer robots! Nothing can possibly go wrong!

The first Bookslingers contest is on now: enter to win a copy of A Plain Scandal by Amanda Flower! Find out more in the blog post.

Neil Gaiman's Chu's Day, the thoroughly adorable picture-book story of Chu, a little panda with a big sneeze, came out in January (illustrated by Adam Rex). His new novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, comes out in June. 

Like totally excellent radio plays filled with equally fabulous British actors like James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Anthony Head (and that's just the top of the list!)? The new BBC radio play adaptation of Neverwhere debuts on March 16th. It will be available on iPlayer, which means that we non-Brits will even be able to listen to it!

Our book of the week is Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. Dragons! A totally new take on dragons! No really! Also beautiful, beautiful worldbuilding and tension and politics and did I mention the dragons? And did I mention this is her debut novel? Welcome to the list of authors who make us feel inadequate, Rachel Hartman! I'm sure you, Kristin Cashore and Megan Whalen Turner will get along famously.

Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #22: Special Hobbit Edition!

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


Well, it's... been a while. We actually did record an episode near the beginning of November, but it seems that between my visit to the Albertan wastes (newsflash: Ari is still allergic to Alberta) and my return to Vancouver, the files were lost, or eaten, or otherwise rendered unfindable. So you'll just have to imagine what it was like. It was about the Hope Larson graphic novel adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time! Our feelings were generally positive (apart from some disagreement on the appropriate size and gravitas of evil disembodied brains)!

It was, in fact, the best podcast that ever was. And there is no evidence to the contrary, so you'll just have to take our word for it, won't you? :)

This week in books: it's an All Hobbit podcast! Okay, it's a 78% Hobbit podcast. The first of a trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is out this Friday, December 14th (or Thursday, if like me you are going to an early showing). Do you have your tickets yet?

The Goodreads Choice Awards are out! Did you vote? 1,156,852 people did.

J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy is going to be adapted into a BBC miniseries.

As is Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell!

Did you know that The Hobbit was originally published in 1937? And has been adapted nearly thirty times to various formats, including stage, screen, musical, video game, audiobook, radio play, board game, and graphic media? And that there's a version only licensed for performance in Canada? This episode includes a brief (abridged) history of Hobbit dramatizations, good, bad, and baffling.

Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #21: Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey, or: Eldest Child's Burden

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels: ,


If you're a grown-up (which I mention because a couple of the selections are definitely not kid/YA-rated), you might want to check out the Humble eBook Bundle, brought to you by the same folks who brought you the Humble Indie Bundle, which is a bundle of indie games offered for Your Price Here. A portion of the proceeds goes to charities like Child's Play and the bundle includes works from authors like Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Mercedes Lackey and Cory Doctorow. It's also DRM-free! So you should check it out (even if, like Corene, you harbour anti-eBook sentiments).


Apparently J.K. Rowling isn't the only kids' author striking out into adult lit: R.L. Stine, author of many of our pre-teen nightmares, has released a book for adults: Red Rain involves a hurricane and a set of evil twins... like you do, I suppose, if you're R.L. Stine.


It's book awards season! The National Book Awards finalists have been announced! As have the finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards, including the Children's Illustration category, to Corene's particular delight.


This week's book is The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens.


Incidentally, since The Hobbit is one of our If You Liked This Then books for this week, a friendly reminder: The Hobbit: THE MOVIE - or at least, the first part of three - comes out in December. That means right now would be a good time to start re-reading the book! Like I'll be doing. :)


Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #20: Like Game of Thrones for Kids

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels: ,


Banned Books Week is from September 30 to October 6th, celebrating the freedom to read vs. increasing numbers of challenges and bans. I think we went over the 2011 list of most challenged titles a little while ago, but in all there were 326 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom in 2011, according to the American Library Association. This is technically an American event - in Canada we have Freedom to Read Week in February - but why limit ourselves, right?


The lists for the 2012 Cybils - the Children's and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards - are out, and you can see them on the Cybils website.


In other news, Ben Hatke's second Zita the Spacegirl - Legends of Zita the Spacegirl - is out, and I will give one hundred dollars to anyone who can put it in my hands by the end of the week (kidding; no actual hundred dollars will be forthcoming, though I could probably muster up a cup of tea).


Our Book of the Week is actually a series of graphic novels - the gorgeous, magnificent, exciting, dark and breathtaking Amulet books by Kazu Kibuishi. The fifth book, Prince of the Elves, has just come out, and is as shivery and wonderful as its predecessors. This is a series-in-progress, but we promise, it is so, so worth it. Also, the Scholastic site has a pretty cool walk-through/question-asking game for the titles and characters.


Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #19: Twisty and wonderful minds of Oceania

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


J.K. Rowling, AKA basically in control of everyone's imaginations for the past, um, how long? Ten years? Fifteen? Million? has a new book coming out, but this one is for adults: The Casual Vacancy comes out September 27th in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Germany.


August 28th is Women Read Comics in Public Day! One of these days this sort of thing is going to fall when I can legitimately take the day off work and sit on the steps of the library all day, surrounded by Young Avengers and Captain Marvel.


Raina Telgemeier has a new graphic novel coming out! Drama will be available September 1st, and since we have, so far, loved everything Raina has ever done, we are sure this will be amazing too.


Our Book of the Week is Maddigan's Fantasia by the inestimable Margaret Mahy.


Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #18: Which is mostly just about Terry Pratchett and how awesome he is

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


This week in books, it looks like Gen Y is finally beating the Baby Boomers at something, namely book-buying. Hah! We'd say it's not a competition, but who are we kidding? It's absolutely a competition.


It seems that always-prolific James Patterson has declared Nevermore to be the final installment in his now-eight-book Maximum Ride Series. We're not sure we believe him, but either way, he's put up the first 16 chapters for free on his website, a practice we heartily endorse.


Our Book of the Week is The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. It should, naturally, surprise no one that our If You Liked This Then segment is essentially a backlist of most of Pratchett's other wacky, magnificent titles for YA.


Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #17: Cyborgs, Drama, Line Friends, and Other Tales

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


Greetings, Bookslingers! It's been a while.


We've both been on a work-related, no-wait-I'll-be-on-vacation-in-Banff, sorry-I'm-going-to-be-in-San-Diego hiatus, but now we're back! Our book this week is Cinder, by Marissa Meyer, which neither of us realized, while reading, is the first in a quartet. So... see you again in 2015! (Kidding.)


I have been to San Diego Comic-Con, which if you are of the geeky persuasion I cannot recommend highly enough, and is extremely exhausting. Back in the real world, according to Corene, The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger has been optioned for TV! This would be excellent news even if Gail Carriger hadn't just endeared herself to me forever by still having a LiveJournal. ^.^


Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #16: Which podcast is this again?

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


The 2012 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards Shortlist has been announced! As have the 2012 Joe Shuster Awards.


No Book of the Week this week, but instead, a theme: pirate books! Some good pirates as well as some bad pirates, and some discussion of how if you attack other ships and steal their stuff, you're still a pirate, no matter what you call yourself or how favourably you are looked upon by the Queen of England.


Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #15: Twin Spica Special

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


This week in books, there has been a predictably pearl-clutching study revealing that - DUN DUN DUUUUUUN - there are swear words in young adult novels. The "study" comes out of Brigham-Young University, so take that with a grain (or a canister) of salt, since this is the same university that requires its student body to sign a pledge enforcable by the morality police. More important info about said "study:" apparently "fart" is an obscenity. Who knew? (Normally this is where we would link to the article, but we don't really want to give this thing more links, so if you really want to read it, you are more than welcome to Google) I don't know about you guys, but as a teenager, I'm pretty sure most of my cussing vocabulary was not coming from such "profane" tomes as Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Maybe I was just reading wrong?


Also, Steve Jobs has been made into a children's book, this time in the form of his very own volume in the "Who Was" series, which is meant to educate children about important historical figures. Please enjoy the highly entertaining cover.


The Nebula Awards have been... awarded! Winners of various Nebula-related prizes include the ever-excellent Neil Gaiman and Her Awesomeness, Connie Willis (this is her new title).


This week is our long-promised (and possibly very disappointing?) Twin Spica Special! It is composed mainly of long, fraught pauses and mournful sighs. Pro Tip: We recommend not reading the last three issues of this manga on public transit (unless you really enjoy crying in public, then go nuts).


Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #14: In Which Miss Corene Suffers from Political Distraction

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


Today is World Book Night! Day! Night!

If you're in the UK, US or Ireland, anyway. If you're not, it's just Monday.

It's the 60th anniversary of Charlotte's web!

Also, Charles Dickens and J.R.R. Tolkien's heirs are writing a children's book! It will probably be very long. (And probably also good! Which I say so that Corene won't hit me! (I kid. I'm sure it will be awesome. But she's a little... intense about Dickens. A little.)

Books from this week's podcast:



The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #13: It isn't that we hate ALL the books

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


The American Library Association has released their list of Most Challenged Books of 2011. On this year's list are Lauren Myracle's TTYL series (for "religious viewpoint," whatever that means, among other reasons), the ever-favoured (see what I did there?) The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, whose most hilarious reason is "occult/satanic" (WE HAVE NO IDEA EITHER) and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie. Check it out! As responsible adults we are honour-bound to recommend you read every single one of these books, in the spirit of things-people-want-to-make-sure-you-can't-read-are-probably-worth-reading-for-one-reason-or-another.

This year's School Library Journal Battle of the Kids' Books has come to an end, and the winner is... *drumroll* Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt!

We... were not overwhelmed with awe and amazement over this week's Book of the Week. We promise, we're going to review a book we actually like for next podcast.

Books from this week's podcast:



The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast, Special Video Edition: Nerds in the Wild; Emerald City Comicon 2012

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels: , ,




Sorry guys, no download link for the video - yet. I'm still fighting with Premiere, which has gotten a good deal more complicated to use since I last used it in 2003. o.O

This week's Special Video Edition is brought to you on-location at Seattle's Emerald City Comicon, with Special Guest Host Pippa of coincidentalreality.com. Learn about cons (if you've never been to one), nerds in the wild, and watch as I conscript those around me into taking part. Good times!

Books from this week's podcast:

The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #12: All the horrible stuff is already in your head

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


Have you seen The Hunger Games yet? Despite Miss Corene's reservations, I recommend it. It was pretty great.

The Atlantic Book Awards shortlist is out! Check it out here. It has Janet McNaughton on it.

Are you following the School Library Journal's Battle of the Books? Because it's getting pretty intense.


Books from this week's podcast:



The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #11: Why you shouldn't trust swamp logic

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


You probably already know this, unless you've been living underneath a rock, or possibly a rock at the very bottom of the ocean, but the movie based on Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games comes out March 23rd. Apparently tickets are already nearing sold-out status in a lot of North American cities, to a point that might actually surpass the sales for the last Twilight movie. While I plan to see the movie and Corene does not (citing lingering trauma from the first book), we can agree on greeting this as positive news, if only to beat out Twilight in something.

It's Children's Book Week soon, and voting opens on March 14th! You can see the 2012 finalists here.


Books from this week's podcast:



The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #10: A disproportionate number of poisonings and a couple of assassinations

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


This week in books: Scholastic's new Storia e-book platform - and did you know that 500 new fairytales were recently discovered in Germany? You can thank Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, apparently.

For some reason, many of this week's books involved poisoning. A couple of them had assassinations. Corene's convinced this has something to do with The Ides of March. This feels like a good moment to re-iterate that we at Bookslingers.com are only in favour of fictional murders.

Books from this week's podcast:



The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #9: How to run away from home and live happily ever after

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


Did you know that Robert Munsch has had three of his magnificent books translated into Inuktituk? Well, he has! But we don't know what the third one is. Do you?

Just for fun, here is the thoroughly awesome picture of Robert Munsch that was attached to the article at the CBC:

(ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation/Canadian Press)

Robert Munsch: we love you. That is all.

In other news: Corene hates zombie/vampire/etc. adaptations of classical literature. They make her cry.

Except apparently Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith, which is going to be a movie soon.

This week we talked about a classic children's book: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg. This book may or may not have inspired a couple of generations of kids to plan running away from home to live graciously in museums - fortunately very few of us ever followed through.

Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #8: The book that made me want to bicycle through Ireland in a cape

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


This week: did you hear that FOX 2000 has has already optioned John Green's The Fault in Our Stars? (Yeah, our brains hurt, too.)

In happier news, February 6th marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday! If he were any other author, and had indeed lived to 200, he still would not have been able to write that many words.

This week's book was a joint life-long favourite: O.R. Melling's The Hunter's Moon. If you have not read this book, go and read it immediately.

Then come back and listen to the podcast.

No, seriously. We'll wait.


Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #7: In which there are mixed feelings (and our first special guest!)

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:


This week we talked about how e-books are definitely not destroying literature, no matter what Jonathan Franzen says; that some Canadians made it onto YALSA's Best Books for Young Adults list this year, and Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star, on the subject of which we had... mixed feelings. But fear not! Guest speaker and fellow blogger Pippa was here to balance things out.

Books from this week's podcast:


The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #6: We would never ACTUALLY want dogs to talk

Posted by Miss Maiar Labels:

It's that time again - ALA Book & Media Awards season! Namely, we talk about the Newbery, the Caldecott, and the 1,567,834 other awards that the American Library Association likes to give out at this time of year.

Books from this week's podcast:

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)
 

Copyright © Bookslingers Blog
WP Theme by Simply WP | Blogger theme by BloggerThemes