Oh interlings, you are the best at helping. The problem with being good at helping, though, is that I will keep asking you to do it. So I'm asking you for help again.
Last year, Amy the Super-Marvelous was so good as to ask me to review the year for Book Blogger Appreciation Week. It was eleven kinds of fun. This year she has asked me to do it again. The year! It is a big thing, and I really only know what has been going on in my own little head-space. This is where I need you.
What. Has. Happened.
If you have links to stories, bueno, but mostly I need you to remind me about all the wins and fails and feuds and cetera, big and small, that happened between now and a year-ago-now. Like, the FTC hullaballoo is a thing. And the increasing tendency to label authors as 'panty-worthy' is a thing. You getting my gist? Everything is a potential thing.
Also, this is not me being link-whorey but if you could spread the word, I'd appreciate. I know my readership here is only a certain corner of the Internet Sandbox and I want this to be as comprehensive as possible. Let's reminisce!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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The Bloomsbury Group and race controversy:
ReplyDeletehttp://classicvasilly.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/not-again-bloomsbury/
http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2009/07/22/why-my-protags-arent-white/
http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/feature/2010/01/19/cover_whitewashing
Well, let me just say that it was THAT YEAR IN REVIEW last year that got me hooked on ya. So really, whatever you do, even if you ramble, its going to be good.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to scratch open a festering wound, but in my mind, the biggest hoo-ha was when Jackie at Farm Lane Books drew a line between US bloggers and British bloggers. Whoa. That one burned a hole in the ozone. But dare you?
I think there were a bunch of discussions and a protest of sorts about the selling of ARCs.
ReplyDeleteThe first Book Blogger Convention happened.
ReplyDeleteThere was the Franzen/ Weiner-Picoult snafu, wherein Franzen said nothing and Weiner-Picoult said lots of silly, stupid things.
ReplyDeleteNicholas Sparks weighed himself against Cormac McCarthy and found McCarthy wanting. Roger Ebert retorted that he shouldn't be allowed to use his name and McCarthy's together in the same sentence...not even to call the bookstore and say "Hi this is Nicholas Sparks. Is the new Cormac McCarthy novel in yet?" He should just phone up anonymously.
ReplyDeleteThe first Armchair BEA happened!
ReplyDeleteLibrarians / library school students made a Lady Gaga video. This would *not* have happened in 2009.
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