Regency England like you’ve never seen it before: A book trailer for ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’

My second foray into video booktalks and trailers… Jane Austen’s classic text (well…85% classic text) with some added zombie mayhem – including a plague of undead terrorizing Hertfordshire, Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s ninjas terrorizing Elizabeth Bennett, and the Bennett sisters fighting back against all this with their finely honed combat skills. Pride and Prejudice 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 [...]

Goldie the booktalking dog

So funny that I couldn’t resist posting…also the book sounds really interesting!

On my bookshelf….

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Vol. 1, The Pox Party: written by YA author M.T. Anderson (who previously wrote the YA vampire novel, Thirsty), Octavian Nothing is a story of historical fiction set around the time of the American Revolution and it is about science, intelligence, experimentation and racial prejudice — a book that [...]

Beyond Twilight: Resources for Non-Fiction and Historical Fiction

This past summer one of my favorite librarian blogs posted a “non-fiction rant” bemoaning the lack of YA non-fiction resources. As I went to find YA resources on non-fiction, this post was foremost in my mind because…well, I couldn’t find very many.* I did find several resources that included non-fiction within an analysis of general [...]