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Thank you! - Davina

Must always place a human touch on grading, I'd say!

Thank you Pennie, very interesting.

If anyone wants to take a closer look at Sharon Creech's "Walk Two Moons" they'll find it here: http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/637/Walk-Two-Moons

I feel bad for the people who work there. Sad but when places like Target, BJs and Walmart sell books for next to nothing you cannot survive. I feel for the Indie bookshops as well as they have an even more difficult time to keep afloat.

I know and today I heard Wal Mart is going to start selling best sellers for $9.00...I mean what about enjoying the search for a book, in Borders or Books or Barns....all that is lost if Wal Mart takes over the book market and I do not like it one bit!!!!!

"The Glass Castle" is a favorite!

The book "Little Heathens" by Mildred Armstrong Kalish is very good also-- about her life growing up on a farm in Iowa during the depression.

Sorry, doesn't ring any bells.

I agree...rainy days are the best fro reading....

They're even better if you have a fireplace in front of which to curl up ... and a cat on your lap!

I have loved vampires since grade school thanks to the night stalker - maybe it will wane just a bit and bring the really good ones to the forefront.

Post-Apocalytptic, apocalyptic, and dystopian lit has been written for YA's for years, maybe at a simpler level, but with a powerful punch; almost all are geared toward self-definition. John Christopher's Tripod trilogy first got me going on the genre. Taronga (1986) is a novel written by Australian author Victor Kelleher; more recently we had ... Read MoreLois Lowry's (can't get much better than Lowry) The Giver. A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve; A Darkling Plain won the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction. The list goes on, but these are some of the highlights.

While I think there is a rich and continuing tradition of PA/Dsystopian YA lit, I'm not sure I see it as "replacing" the vampire craze. I think the vampire allure is it's simplicity and sexual seductiveness. Teens who want something more than a thrill will read the PA and other genres that require self-examination, but I'm not sure this would be the "craze". I sure hope we don't go back to the "Problem novel" I was so sick of that, I welcomed the simplistic ghouls.

I watched the Nook video on the B&N website. I did not see a keyboard as one of the choices on the touchscreen but plan on visiting a Barnes & Noble to try it out. I did send an email to Amazon asking we they would allow "sharing" with people who are not on your account. Right now Amazon does allow a book to be read on several Kindles that share the same credit card. That just makes buying books difficult as you would have to figure out the bill. Still love my Kindle.

Am still not sure why I should pay $250 to read books that I also buy when I can borrow the books from my library for free.

Maybe US Indies will get the last laugh after all - as more and more big box guys join the discounting frenzy, indies are realizing they can cancel their orders for these handful of titles from the publishers and instead buy them from Walmart etc and then resell them - at a discount to their customers while still making a profit themselves (and the... Read More publishers aren't losing out either at this point as it seems they're selling to the Walmart, Target etc at regular prices and the stores are choosing to sell at a loss).

The American Booksellers Association has sent a letter to the antitrust division of the Department of Justice requesting that the government begin an investigation into what the organization believes is the illegal predatory pricing policies being carried out by Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target in selling 10 hardcover titles for as low as $8.98.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703525.html

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