The Austen mash-ups continue

Quirk Books recently announced their 3rd Austen title, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, due to be released in late March 2010. This book is a departure from their two previous titles in that it is not technically a mash-up but rather a completely new title. This title is an Elizabeth Bennett [...]

Penguin Classics Get Fashionable New Facelifts

New York Fashion Week may be over, but the newly facelifted Penguin Classics Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and The Scarlett Letter, are here to stay. Featuring modern new covers by noted illustrator and artist Ruben Toledo (and designed to coincide with New York Fashion Week) Penguin’s intention was to attract new readers to classics [...]

Reminiscences on ‘classic’ YA of Yesterday

Jezebel columnist Lizzie Skurnick’s has just released a book, Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classic We Never Stopped Reading, which is all about her re-reading and reminiscing on her favorite YA books as a child and teen in ways both humorous and profound…though mostly humorous. Shelf Discovery includes esays from Skurnick’s Jezebel column, “Fine Lines” and [...]

The Austen re-invention continues: Sense and Sensibility…and Sea Monsters

After the runaway success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk books just announced last night a new title in its collection – Sense and Sensbility and Sea Monsters to be released this coming September. According to an interview with EW.com, book co-author Ben H. Winters promises, “a giant rampaging mutant lobster. Octopi with glittering [...]

Site Updates and News…including Twilight and yes, even Zombies

Hi everyone and sorry for my lack of postings the past month. A blog is only as good as its updates, and in this regard I have been sorely lacking. But I am back from vacation and starting my third (and final!) semester at library school and I am back at blogging. A few site [...]

Guest blog on YA of Yesterday

I have just updated YA of Yesterday and we have our first guest post! My many thanks to my friend, Sandra, for guest blogging about books angsty (and not) that formed her favourite YAs of Yesterday. So if you too loved Judy Blume, Christopher Pike, Sweet Valley High or other tales of angst and understanding [...]