Book Trailers are Dumb

A few random things:

• Book Trailers are Dumb. I have never seen a convincing one. Libba Bray in a cow suit may be the one exception ( see it here)
• Meg Cabot's blog is far better than any of her books
• The two authors whose books I am most excited for any given year ( pre-order; check continually on Chapters.ca for updates on release dates etc., ) are:
• 1.) Catherine Webb --- whose Horatio Lyle series is by far my favourite thing in contemporary YA
• 2.) Martha Grimes --- whose Richard Jury series is the best part of any book year
• Scott Lynch needs to come up with ONE release date for Republic of Theives and stick to it
• I should learn Spanish---if only to be able to read Arturo Perez-Reverte's Alatriste series without having to wait for translation
• I may have bought the first Charles Finch novel because he looked nice in his photograph