Comments on: >I didn’t see this coming. http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7841 Roger Sutton Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:19:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7841 >Yeah, Ways to Live Forever slipped my mind in the recount. Nothing personal. >Yeah, Ways to Live Forever slipped my mind in the recount. Nothing personal.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7837 Anonymous Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:37:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7837 >I found the Fanfare list -- there are only NINE fiction titles picked as best books of 2008 and one of them is indeed Ways to Live Forever -- which is the contender of the first match, against Octavian nothing II. >I found the Fanfare list — there are only NINE fiction titles picked as best books of 2008 and one of them is indeed Ways to Live Forever — which is the contender of the first match, against Octavian nothing II.

]]> By: Monica Edinger http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7835 Monica Edinger Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:08:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7835 >Another BoB contender on your best of the year list was none other than WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER. >Another BoB contender on your best of the year list was none other than WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER.

]]> By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7833 Roger Sutton Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:48:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7833 >The novels the Horn Book chose for its best of the year list included The London Eye Mystery, Forever Rose and Last of the High Kings in addition to BoB contenders Kingdom of the Waves, Hunger Games, Graveyard Book, Forever Rose and Nation. Among our nonfiction choices (which included We Are the Ship and The Lincolns) we also had Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Way We Work, Our White House and what was really my favorite book last year, Pale Male. We gave positive reviews to all of the BoB choices but obviously liked some better than others. >The novels the Horn Book chose for its best of the year list included The London Eye Mystery, Forever Rose and Last of the High Kings in addition to BoB contenders Kingdom of the Waves, Hunger Games, Graveyard Book, Forever Rose and Nation. Among our nonfiction choices (which included We Are the Ship and The Lincolns) we also had Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Way We Work, Our White House and what was really my favorite book last year, Pale Male. We gave positive reviews to all of the BoB choices but obviously liked some better than others.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7829 Anonymous Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:57:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7829 >"11:44, as i understand it the organizers chose sixteen (is that right) of the buzziest books of last year."<br /><br />I am imagining the Rube Goldberg buzzometer that they keep in the closet of the School Library Journal office.<br /><br />Are there any that you would have put into the BoB that weren't there?<br /><br />Anon 11:44 >”11:44, as i understand it the organizers chose sixteen (is that right) of the buzziest books of last year.”

I am imagining the Rube Goldberg buzzometer that they keep in the closet of the School Library Journal office.

Are there any that you would have put into the BoB that weren’t there?

Anon 11:44

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7828 Anonymous Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:47:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7828 >Who is the next judge and can we get him or her to please not use the phrase "apples and oranges?" At least it should be easy to avoid in this match up. >Who is the next judge and can we get him or her to please not use the phrase “apples and oranges?” At least it should be easy to avoid in this match up.

]]> By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7826 Roger Sutton Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:43:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7826 >Jonathan (HB reviewer and judge for this year's BGHB awards) is great indeed and all the judges have had interesting things to say. I love that there's going to be an Octavian/Chains matchup--two white people writing about two black people in the Revolutionary War.<br /><br />11:44, as i understand it the organizers chose sixteen (is that right) of the buzziest books of last year.<br /><br />Enormous Girl, how do you deal with negative signed reviews? Getting one of those would probably hurt my pride more than the stated opinions of the BoB judges, who fall all over themselves about how tough it is choosing between two such great, great books--it's almost as if most of them flipped a coin, by the sound of it. >Jonathan (HB reviewer and judge for this year’s BGHB awards) is great indeed and all the judges have had interesting things to say. I love that there’s going to be an Octavian/Chains matchup–two white people writing about two black people in the Revolutionary War.

11:44, as i understand it the organizers chose sixteen (is that right) of the buzziest books of last year.

Enormous Girl, how do you deal with negative signed reviews? Getting one of those would probably hurt my pride more than the stated opinions of the BoB judges, who fall all over themselves about how tough it is choosing between two such great, great books–it’s almost as if most of them flipped a coin, by the sound of it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7825 Anonymous Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:35:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7825 >Realize this marks me as Enormous Girl, but what actually kind of sticks in my craw about all this is it's a tiny bit mean. <br /><br />If I write a novel and get nominated for the Newbery and then lose, I'm entitled to imagine that 49% of the committee was pulling for me and that I was a close second. But in BoB, I know for sure that some specific person I admire thinks my book is a little less good in some undefined and therefore total way than some other specific book, which I'm sure is a valuable object lesson in You're not supposed to please everybody, but I gotta tell you, I don't read the posts, they make me wince a little. >Realize this marks me as Enormous Girl, but what actually kind of sticks in my craw about all this is it’s a tiny bit mean.

If I write a novel and get nominated for the Newbery and then lose, I’m entitled to imagine that 49% of the committee was pulling for me and that I was a close second. But in BoB, I know for sure that some specific person I admire thinks my book is a little less good in some undefined and therefore total way than some other specific book, which I’m sure is a valuable object lesson in You’re not supposed to please everybody, but I gotta tell you, I don’t read the posts, they make me wince a little.

]]> By: betty http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7824 betty Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:19:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7824 >apples and oranges... >apples and oranges…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2009/04/blogs/read-roger/i-didnt-see-this-coming/#comment-7823 Anonymous Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:35:00 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3289#comment-7823 >The best thing about the whole process is the commentary by Jonathan Hunt. He's becoming the Simon Cowell of children's literature. >The best thing about the whole process is the commentary by Jonathan Hunt. He’s becoming the Simon Cowell of children’s literature.

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