This was making the rounds at work today…

I’ve seen a couple movies based on books recently:
War of the Worlds - What I found terribly exciting, made me grin with glee, and caused me to totally freak out with anticipation and restored my faith in good movies was…. the trailer for the Transporter 2 that ran in front of War of the Worlds! [...]

Is Svetlana Chmakova everywhere now? This USA Today article provides details about a Tokyopop collaboration with Cosmo Girl. Chmakova is writing and illustrating a 2 page strip called “The Adventures of CG” which is going to be appearing monthly in Cosmo Girl magazine. I really enjoyed Chasing Rainbows and I think that Chmakova’s [...]

I just finished reading the first issue of Shojo Beat and found it good. I think for age range it does skew older than Shonen Jump. There are certainly a few scenes in some of the comics that deal with sex, but not very graphically. If that isn’t a problem for your library, it should [...]

Books
Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce - I like this series so much more than some of Pierce’s other recent work. It seemed a bit more grown-up and less formulaic. I think breaking out of the 4 books in a series convention that she’d been working with for so long was very good.
Bait and Switch : [...]