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Poking a Stick at Facebook

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ImageSo I might be biting the hand that feeds me. Or maybe messing with Sasquatch. Both metaphors probably work, when you start poking a stick, so to speak, at Facebook.

Which is sort of what I do today in my Muffin post. But mostly, I’m just curious if others on Facebook are noticing the same trend that I’ve noticed when it comes to author Pages. So if you’re a Facebook user, I’d appreciate a little feedback on that topic.

And if you’re a Facebook user and suddenly notice that I’m not anywhere to be found over there, it’s probably just because I’m taking a break. Probably I haven’t been kicked off and told never to come back.

Probably.

 

What’s On Your Bookshelf?

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ImageIf you read–or particularly write Young Adult novels, then you’ve probably heard about that article over at Slate. The one with this tagline:

Read whatever you want. But you should feel embarrassed when what you’re reading was written for children.

Naturally, there’s been a tremendous backlash because…well, for various and obvious reasons. (Margo Dill over at The Muffin today shared her opinion, and it’s a fine one.) Mostly it all comes back to Graham’s remarks being offensive. Offensive in that elitist, snobbish, I’m-better-than-you-are-because-I-read-adult-and-meaningful-literature. But also, as any schoolkid can tell you, because nobody likes being told what they “should” read.

Let’s take a look at what’s on Cathy C. Hall’s bookshelf (or the floor, as I like to call it):

Margo Dill’s Caught Between Two Curses

Stephen Colbert’s I Am A Pole and So Can You!

Susan Spencer-Wendel’s Until I Say Goodbye

Nina Amir’s The Author Training Manual (Coming up this Wednesday on a WOW book tour!)

Suzanne Lilly’s Gold Rush Girl (Just finished! See my review on Goodreads.)

Becky Povich’s From Pigtails to Chin Hairs (next up on the e-reader)

So…that’s two YA’s, one picture book, two adult memoirs, and one non-fiction. And  you know what?

I will read them on a train. And I will read them on a plane. I will read them on the street. And I will read them in bare feet. I will read them here or there. I will read them anywhere.

Because I’m an adult. And I read what I want.

(Have you got a read you’d like to recommend? Tell us what’s on your bookshelf! And you can sound off, too.)