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In support of Rayman, which I love and adore, I bring you a video, which my dear friend, Cotume has linked me to.

Now, go buy a Wii and buy Rayman: Raving Rabbids!!!

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Happy Halloween!!!

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Just wanted all to know that the Fantasy Book Critic has reviewed Green Rider #3.

The gist is that while he did not love it as much as the first two, it was still a good read and he wants more Green Rider tales.

And that leaves me with MORE excitement for November 6th when High King’s Tomb goes on sale EVERYWHERE, but especially in your independent bookshop!

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MADISON IS NOT your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesn’t use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summer—the first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys’ team. The press call her a star and a trailblazer, but Madison just wants to play ball. Who knew it would be so much pressure? Crowds flock to the games. Her team will win the championship—if she can keep up her pitching streak. Meanwhile, she’s got a crush on a fellow player, her best friend abandons her for the popular girls, the “O” on her Hinton’s uniform forms a bulls-eye over her left breast, and the boy she punched on the last day of school plans to bean her in the championship game.

This is the description of “No Cream Puffs” by Karen Day. It has a May 2008 release date, so it is coming out pretty far in the future, but it is good enough to talk about NOW. It is being published by Random House and this is Karen Day’s second novel.

Let me tell you why I liked this book. It felt like you were twelve again. You are beginning adolescence, becoming a teenager, your body is changing and your mother obviously doesn’t understand no matter what she says. Madison doesn’t like the attention she is getting, she just wants to play ball. She likes the cute boy on the team, but he isn’t all he is cracked up to be, and it is sometimes a shock to discover what is hidden from you. When I was a kid there were plenty of things I noticed… There were even more things I did NOT notice. Madison has a similar feeling. Her older brother and her mom discuss the hostages in Iran. (The book takes place in 1980.) She doesn’t understand what is actually happening… or where Iran is, but she does understand the tension and that it isn’t right.

This book FEELS like a twelve year old. And that is why I liked it, beyond the fun story, interesting situations and good characterization.

Look for No Cream Puffs by Karen Day wherever books are sold (though preferably at your local independent bookshop) in May of 2008.

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Justin a Callblog has linked to a FABULOUS comic that I must share.

X K C D. com.

Go
Be
Amazed

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I love Joss Whedon. Yes it is true, he is up there with Colin Firth, just yummy in a creation way instead of a licking way… *cough* Anyways, his Buffy and Angel were GREAT shows, but his BEST was Firefly. Oh Firefly how I love you…. The movie Serenity was ALSO fabulous (though I prefer the show… 13 hours versus 2.5, math DOES apply in your adult life!).
Here is my guinea pig Horatio with my Jayne Hat, Firefly discs and Serenity DVD.

Joss makes me love the Tangents, Anyways, I found an article about the ~POSSIBILITY~ of Serenity 2!!!
Here is the link, at Moviehole. And here is the article, for the link-phobic.

Serenity 2 A New Hope?
Date : October 4, 2007 Writer : Clint Morris
I love “Firefly” – so much so every time I’d see it I’d squeeze its cheeks, bring it in closer and share saliva with it. It’s a show that had the danglers to say “screw you! We’re not going anywhere!” despite the fact the network yanked it after 12 episodes. And then, just when it looked like it was done, it remerged as a full-length mother-hoppin’ movie – and by golly if it didn’t bring a lump to George Lucas’s throat.

When Alan Tudyk told me on the phone this morning that a sequel to “Serenity” – that’s the name of the “Firefly” movie for those who’ve been up at Guantanamo Bay for the past couple of years – could be happening I just about dropped the phone (I didn’t though, because the last time I did that it landed in the loo. Fried itself. And as a consequence, I lost all my numbers.) Tudyk says the newly-released “Serenity : Special Edition“ DVD has been selling so hot, that there’s talk in doing another movie.

“They had to put [the new DVD] out because they’ve been selling out of the other one and so Universal’s like ‘So, let’s do another one’. And now… there’s now a chance there’s going to be another movie”.

Tudyk agrees that even if it was a direct-to-DVD movie, it’d still be worthwhile. Especially since the whole DVD sequel is a big trend.

“It really is”, says Tudyk. “Everybody in the Firefly crew – and that includes the ones who died in the movie – are excited about the prospect of doing another”.

Nathan Fillion, says Tudyk, is especially keen. “We were out a couple of weeks ago together at a party and there was a bunch of people there, and he was like ‘Oh, look we’re Browncoats”.

Great to hear Fillion’s still as crazy as ever about wearing the Tightpants again.

Tudyk says he heard from creator Joss Whedon a few weeks back – but mainly about Tudyk’s role in the new Western “3:10 to Yuma”. “He sent me an email when it first came out because at first he thought I was a different character – by the trailer”, he laughs. “He was like ‘My god! You’re playing such a bad-ass!’ That was Ben Foster, who is such a bad-ass in that movie, and is just brilliant, just brilliant, and we both have a similar look – we both have polish genes – and anyway, Joss writes back ‘Sorry, I didn’t realise you were the sympathetic funny character – how would cast you as that?’. Joss, that would be you!”.

The actor, who appears in the new Frank Oz film “Death at a Funeral”, is absolutely blown-away by the life “Firefly” has had. He’s even headed downunder next week to appear at a science fiction convention. It amazes him even more that he got to do a feature film version of his 12-episode series. “That’s wild; you don’t see that happen until years later when it becomes a campy spoof of the thing. But even then, shows like Dukes of Hazzard and Starsky and Hutch were huge hits [from the beginning, and they didn’t do movies straight away] this was something that was a hit only with a group of people and it just grew.”

Likely to happen before a “Serenity” sequel though is an “I, Robot” sequel. Tudyk visited the set of Will Smith’s latest movie “I am Legend” to talk about the movie recently, and says he’d be super excited to play Sonny the robot again.

Yep, but what about Wash? Now that there’s the shizzle.

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So a great new blog that I just discovered, mostly because he is reading Britain’s High King’s Tomb (see my post from yesterday). I will look forward to reading his review of Britain’s new book once he is done! But yeah, great reviews! Also cool because he runs a giveaway thing, it would seem to be mostly with the DAW publishing group, but that might be just the books I am interested in

So I suppose I should tell you the blog eh? It is the Fantasy Book Critic at Blogspot (a common blogging home), and yeah, definite fun times to be had! And regardless of the quality, the QUANTITY. This is a real BLOGGER my friends.

So head on over and enjoy!!

Well well well Ladies and Gents. Good news to be had. First, about the Kristen Britain book series, Green Rider. Book #3, High King’s Tomb, looks like it REALLY is coming out in November, since July is past.. and no book.

So, November 6th, which is not that far away, brings us Green Rider #3. YAY! Just a note that Kristen will be GOING places! It looks like she is doing a scad of signings in Maine in November. Here are the two of most interest to me!

Saturday, November 10, 2007

1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Signing
Sherman’s Books & Stationary
56 Main Street
Bar Harbor, ME
(If you would like to order an autographed book, contact the Bar Harbor Sherman’s at the link above.)

Thursday, November 15, 2007

7:00 p.m. Signing and whatever
Borders
Bangor, ME

I wouldn’t be able to go to the Saturday one, but the Thursday I could!! OO OO OO!!!

So anyways, start re-reading, or reading the Green Rider series, you won’t regret it!

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So the wonder of the Study Books continues! Maria V. Snyder has created a MySpace page for Yelena, over here. Go check it out. There are fun pictures and videos at the site.

Don’t forget that FIRESTUDY is coming out in March of 2008,

FIRE STUDY: SURROUNDED BY FIRE WITH NO WAY TO ESCAPE THE BURN.

Once it is on the shelves, it will be in my hot little hands!!!

Also worthwhile, head over to Nesfa’s review of Magic Study, its a good one, and it is always good to support New England sci-fi groups!

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Ah the wonder of Bookmooch. One of my favorite sites these days. I know I have blogged on this before, but I thought you all might be interested in the New York Times article available here. It is a very positive article, with a little history and a few funny gems. Here is one of my favorite quotes,

“She had checked out the person’s wish list and noticed that an Ann Coulter title was on it,” said Ms. Scholl, the University of Washington student, referring to the author of the current “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” “And she e-mailed her, ‘You want to read something by Coulter so I’m not sending you anything.’”

And here is another fabulous thing about Bookmooch. You really can find your favorite old books that had been lost for a long time!!!

“One of the reasons I started BookMooch was I had this book I re-read every few years — ‘Lessons Learned From Sesame Street,’” he said. “It was long out of print and I lent it to someone — I don’t know who — and it was gone.”

“Two weeks ago,” he added, his voice rising in excitement, “I found it on BookMooch.”

Share, Mooch, and leave feedback, go on! Join up!!

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