It’s coming to you. Promise.
Yes, my friends, I am still having electrical difficulties. As in, I’ve had zero internet access for the entire day, and much of last night. Yesterday I even paid $6 to use the web at a Starbucks. This, when I’m already paying for internet in my own home.
Ahem. I’ll stop complaining. But I wanted to let you know that I’ll be shooting out a few things this week:
1. A review of Zombie Blondes by Brian James. The zombie trend, it has started.
2. An interview with the esteemed and truly awesome Melissa Walker, author of the Violet on the Runway series.
3. Another review or three, of one of the trillion books I’ve got sitting on every available surface. Do leave a comment if there’s anything in particular that you’d like to hear about asap.
4. Next week, July 11: A big, gigantic, fantastical review and maybe more of Lauren Mechling’s Dream Girl, which will be released that day! Which reminds me, I need to fill the bathtub up and re-read that one.
Ahem. So you’ll get all of that, and soon, if I can just get the interwebs to cooperate with me for more than ten seconds at a time.
Much love,
brina
July 1st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Melissa Walker interview yay! Starting Violet on the Runway in oh say about 5 minutes!
July 1st, 2008 at 10:54 pm
It had already begun, the zombie trend that is. Generation Dead by Dan Waters began it as far as I’m concerned and that is one excellent book.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Ooh. I’ve got to read this “Generation Dead” of which you speak. FINALLY have web access after a long and terrible period of time during which I could only do “real” work on my computer. Tragic.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Hey Sabrina,
In case you’re intrigued …
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/books/20tudor.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Here’s the link to children’s book author/illustrator Tasha Tudor’s obit in the NY Times. Love the art she did for A Little Princess.
Also, oddly, does this obit read a tiny bit like Dr. Evil’s description of his childhood? Its so weird …
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Fab line up!!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Sorry, dears, that it took me so long. As I just wrote in an e-mail, my internet access lately has been like this:
• Sit down at computer.
• Load Safari.
• Close airport.
• Re-open airport.
• Reload Safari.
• Go into other room; cycle modem one million times.
• Do a little internet-now-please dance.
• Mix frog spawn, eye of newt, and twelve fresh troll nail clippings to make a paste.
• Throw away disgusting paste.
• Go to the end of the road, turn in a circle three times under a full moon.
• Reload Safari.
Thankfully, today I seem to have things back up and running, at least for a little while.