- If you follow this blog on the casual, you well know my fervent dreamwish of one day partaking in a live-action version of Oregon Trail (seriously, reality tv - make it happen). Thank you, Mental Floss, for providing this history lesson on the history lesson game.
- Shame on you, reader. You forgot Harry Potter's Larry Bird birthday (he turned 33 yesterday)! Don't worry. I did too. Here are some cakes to celebrate, and here is Ron Weasley's message to his bff.
- Recipe for a Downton Abbey Party (or like 50 - so more of a guide!): I'm in if there's costumes involved.
- Some clever fiend who knows YA Lit and wants to make you nonreading, judging adults read made a Buzzfeed. Well played, sir or madam. (This is like the YA Librarians guide to some of the best recommendations in YA today.)
- Jane Austen's got mad scrilla, y'all. Incidentally, some truly horrible Internet trolls cant handle it, and have nothing better to do than hide behind an IP address and threaten the woman who made it happen. Grow a pair, dipsh*ts.
- In other things British that you probably already know about, someone named JK Rowling published a book under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. And then someone spilled the beans. Luckily, the New York Times saw this as an opportunity to make other authors come up with some pretty fantastic pseudonyms. Especially you, Carl Hiaasen
- Jellicoe Road movie news (I'd totally partake in a Kickstarter, for the first and only time, for this to happen. Just sayin'...)
- Are you even more behind the time than moi? Well, get with it campers: the Catching Fire trailer is out, and it's pretty solid (spoiler alert: Peeta gets a hair upgrade, Finnick sans shirt, Stanley Tucci will probably haunt your dreams, you get the idea). The Forever YA girls break it down here.
- Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior. Fifty Shades is the most popular book at Gitmo? Get out, Reuters!
