Welcome to Friday afternoon. I have a couple of posts up at Book Riot this week I wanted to share, as well as some other sundry links that aren’t going to be relevant next week when the Links of Note post goes up. So you’re getting them early.

Yesterday, I took over for one of our vacationing rioters and wrote the Book Fetish post for the week. It’s a roundup of cool bookish items you can buy, and it made me glad I do not do this piece regularly because I would be broke. I’ve got you covered from shoulders to feet, quite literally.

I wrote a post today, too, that’s basically a roundup of the things I think about in relation to YA Lit and the sorts of articles or studies I’d love to see done and written about. I think I’ve read one too many “I’m a grownup who reads YA” or “Why grown ups should read YA” posts — I’d like something a little different and something much more interesting. Here’s what I’ve got, and if you have ideas you’re interested in, you should leave a comment over there. Perhaps we’ll inspire someone to tackle any or all of these ideas.

Other Hangovers




Do you like us on Facebook? We run our posts through a feed over there for anyone who prefers reading through that medium, but we do post other content as well.

For example, this week we rounded up a few giveaways going on that we thought would interest readers. And if you don’t want to like us, that’s okay, since I’ll repost those giveaways here for your clicking and entering enjoyment:

• First, you can win a copy of Jason Vanhee’s Engines of the Broken World from us! The form to do that is right here. That giveaway is open through the end of October. 

• You can win a copy of Trish Doller’s Where the Stars Still Shine from us, too. Actually, I have two copies of this one to give away. I’m going to pick a winner on Monday, and you can enter here.