Since I’ve been bad about keeping Links of Note updated every other weekend — mostly because I am doing link roundups at Book Riot on weekends now — I thought it would be worth trying something a little different here. Who knows if this will be a regular feature or something I do when I think to do it at this point.

“This Week in Reading” will be a roundup of links, of course, as well as a look at the books read and picked up in the past week or books that have shown up in the mail. A number of these books might be reviewed in depth later, some of them might not be.

From the picture above, what’s showed up in my mailbox the last week to week and a half include A. S. King’s Glory O’Brien and the History of the Future (October), Breaking Butterflies by M. Anjelais (August), Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally (July), and Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics edited by Chris Duffy (September). Beneath those are a copy of my college’s alumni magazine and a copy of the latest issue of Public Libraries magazine.

Books read or in the process of being read this week:

Perfectly Good White Boy by Carrie Mesrobian (September) — great male voice with humor and an honest look at teen sexuality.

Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank (August) — verse novel about two girls living with Crohns disease, one who has suffered a long time and one who is newly diagnosed.

Both of those books I read egalleys of and I read them both really quickly. I think I tend to read a lot faster on my ereader than in print. I’m not sure why that is.

• Becky Spratford wrote a really great response to my post last week about quitting the Printz. She talks about who she advocates for and why she keeps her advocacy in those places. 

• The call for proposals to present at the 8th annual Kid Lit Con in Sacramento is out. Go!