All Things Books
Do you love the musty, dusty smell of books? Well, so does Karl Lagerfeld, and now he's given you a perfume so you can walk around smelling like a library all day. Mmm, fictiony...
Nina Metz dissects why she thinks book trailers ultimately fail.
io9 has the scoop on the footage from the movie version of Stephenie Meyer's The Host that was shown at San Diego Comic-Con. I'm looking forward to this one!
YA Highway is doing a HUGE giveaway in celebration of their 3rd anniversary. Among the prizes: a Kindle or Nook, tons of ARCs, and critiques of your work by some of the blog's collaborators.
It's official: Mockingjay will be split into two movies. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I love the book, but I'm really stumped as to how they're going to portray Katniss's inner struggles, which really dominate the book.
Fans take to Twitter to speed the revealing of Cassandra Clare's A Clockwork Princess. How cool is that?
News from the Publishing World
Forbes speculates on how the publishing industry will look in the future.
Around the Interwebs
Author Lauren DeStefano wrote a fantastic blog post entitled The art of being a human being.
Bring the Funny
Big Ten mascots want you to call them, maybe? (Ah, college... Those were the days!)
Gaming
Games Industry International examines how Feminist Frequency's Anita Sarkeesian "beat the trolls" and discusses some of the industry's deep-seated problems with sexism and a lack of female game developers. I am really looking forward to Sarkeesian's forthcoming series on tropes in video games.
