Carlie is being uncharacteristically quiet in the self promotion department, so it's up to me to be all "lookee here! lookee here!"
Carlie has an article, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: Guy-centric YA romance, in the June 2008 Readers' Advisor New, a quarterly newsletter from Libraries Unlimited. Go here to sign up for the newsletter.
It's a great list, with titles for older and younger teens, and includes GLBT romance. Yay!
Made with the LOLCat Builder at I Can Has Cheezburger, but probably not funny to most of the people who visit that site, so I posted it here.
Please, renew your ALA memberships, including your YALSA memberships, because if you don't, they you cannot vote. And remember: you do not have to be a librarian to be a member.
The slate of people running for all offices and committees is up at the YALSA Blog.
Last year, you may recall I was a Printz candidate, and won! Which means starting soon I will be reading my little heart out (my reading is for 08 titles for the 09 Printz.) Which probably explains why I've taken a bit of a book break these past few weeks.
Anyhow, enough me. Check out the Printz slate: Carlie Webber is running!!! (Yes, they use her full first name, Carlisle, and have not corrected the typo on her last name. Sigh.)
Carlie is a contributor at Pop Goes the Library, originator of the awesome idea of the Supernatural stars on a READ Poster. She is also the Teen Coordinator for BCCLS (Bergen County Cooperative Library System), which runs a mock Printz every year. More info on Carlie can be found at her blog.
For Tea Cozy readers, here are the important things to know:
Carlie is the source of the most awesome "the plural of anecdotes is not evidence."
Carlie is a book goddess. She knows her stuff, and is very good at recognizing quality stuff.
Carlie is going to be a guest blogger here! I know! I've been trying to figure out how to get more reviews up, especially as my time is getting limited with other commitments, so Carlie said she'd help Tea Cozy out!
So, make sure your YALSA membership is up to date so when elections open, you can say "yes" to Carlie (you get to vote for 4 people, 8 are running.)
Carlie has the most excellent idea of the week: Getting Supernatural's Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles (aka Sam and Dean Winchester aka pretty, pretty boys) on an ALA READ Poster.
In a nutshell, the reason is pretty obvious. Beyond the pretty, pretty. Sam and Dean routinely do research, using databases, historical records and libraries to figure out how to solve the supernatural mystery of the week.
So, go over to Pop Goes the Library for information on how to contact ALA to voice your support for the Winchester boys on a READ poster.
I'd like to thank Carlie, the matchmaker between me & my new TV boyfriend.
This is how we met:
Carlie likes the TV show Numb3rs, with Don Eppes (FBI guy) and his math whiz brother, Charlie*. Now, Melissa and Carlie had tried to introduce me to this show before, during the infamous Flavor Flav weekend, I believe. But, it didn't take.
I was visiting Carlie a few weekends ago and we were watching Supernatural (pretty, pretty boys.) And Carlie then did the best Readers Advisory for TV ever. Picking up on a significant reason why I adore the show, she said, "You know, this show is just like Numb3rs."
"How so," I asked, wondering what a show about demons had in common with a show about crimes.
"Supernatural: two brothers and a Chevy Impala. Numb3rs: two brothers and a Craftsman house."
Casting it in the light of family drama and brotherly angst, I had to watch. How obsessed am I?
I chose to watch the Season 2 DVD rather than watch original shows this past month.
I am now slightly obsessed with the show, and Don Eppes. (Let's be clear: I'm not some crazy stalker girl who has confused Rob Morrow with the character he plays. And I know Don is not real.) Why I like the character: well, have you seen him? Adorable. But also? There is all the family drama and emotions; the two brothers who trying to reconnect, the father, the family dynamics. Sigh. Forget the crime solving, I like the conversation over dinner. And they bicker, just like Sam and Dean! Seriously, Alan Eppes is just like John Winchester; except nicer and not so psycho. And I don't think the Winchesters are Jewish.
Past TV boyfriends have included Brian Ash, Joe Dubois is my TV husband, and book boyfriend: Gen, of course, as well as Michael Jennings (and half of EEW's main characters). I think Will was one of my first book boyfriends.
So, confess. Don't leave me here on my own. Who is your TV/book/movie boyfriend or girlfriend?.
*edited to add: holy hannah, what a difference a hair cut makes.
