The movie will never be better than the book. I’ll say it again for those in the back. Star picks up megaphone star “the movie will never be better than the book!“ @bookstodon@romancelandia@alttextgroup
In case anyone is wondering if there is any engagement on here— this is the list of every book recommended after I asked if you’d share one book you enjoyed this year. You can scroll underneath the post to see these, but I think seeing them all together shows the true awesomeness of the people on here.
As if children's books aren't already losing visibility due to censorship now this...
This year Goodreads has removed all children's books categories from their Goodreads Choice Awards, meaning no more #MG or #PB categories. Worse, Graphic Novel & Poetry, have also been eliminated.
Here you can vote to ask them to bring those categories back:
@raymccarthy@franciscawrites@bookstodon Amazon actually murdered a site called Shelfari where my book group lived, after cannibalizing all its data. It allowed nested discussions like Reddit.
@madrobin@bookstodon I think so? I need to go back and look, and I don’t know what today’s kids can handle graphic novel-wise! Probably more than I think!
Jason Reynolds will be the keynote speaker for the Virginia Library Association Conference next week so today I read Long Way Down (powerful) and Ain’t Burned All the Bright (poignant). #FridayReads#poetry@bookstodon@librarians