Internet Readalong
Jun. 10th, 2011 01:14 pm* Amina, of A Gay Girl in Damascus, has been reported missing (possibly/probably abducted) on her blog. There's weird stuff re: her existence going around the blogosphere (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
glass_icarus has more on that), but I'm sticking to reserving judgment and hoping she makes it through okay.
* Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood: When I think of the poverty-stricken, sexually and physically abused, self-loathing Native American teenager that I was, I can only wish, immodestly, that I’d been given the opportunity to read “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.” Or Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak.” Or Chris Lynch’s “Inexusable.” Or any of the books that Ms. Gurdon believes to be irredeemable. I can’t speak for other writers, but I think I wrote my YA novel as a way of speaking to my younger, irredeemable self.
* On Colorlines: The Ultimate 21st Century People of Color Sci-Fi List
* The Andrew Loomis figure drawing books are back in print *____*
* Internet Archive becomes archive of physical books, too. The Internet Archive, alarmed to see that many libraries discard books after they are digitized, has decided to start collecting copies of every book ever published, cataloging and storing them in modified shipping containers that serve as long-term archival storage. The stored print-books are to serve as canonical references for the digitized editions.
* They've added two new elements to the periodic table!
* The first volume of The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal is up on Kickstarter
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On X-men: First Class*:
* The Quintessential Mutants of America and Mutie Go Home by Ta-Nehisi Coates
* Race and Women in X-Men: First Class on The Mary Sue
*marina wrote an essay about Erik as a Holocaust survivor. She's also got links to two other great posts.
* ETA: the Racialicious roundtable
* Which I saw Tuesday night and, well. These essays made me care more about the movie than the movie did. ALSO: Armando/Alex 4EVAR. If comics!Armando can come back from the dead (like every other X-Men, ever), movie!Armando can do it too.
On the DCNu:
* The good - Static's getting his own title! Also John Stewart and Guy Gardner are getting a buddy book. I usually don't care about the Lanterns, but this could be amazing.
* The ambivalent - Jaime's getting his own book. Which is awesome! Except it's a reboot and the original was so fantastic (and so recent, DC, c'mon) that I'm worried this new version won't stand up.
* The bad - they're knocking Barbara Gordon back to Batgirl - no more Oracle, no more wheelchair and, while the Birds of Prey still exist, chances are good she's not in charge**. In fact, all the news coming out of Gotham (except maybe Batwoman) sounds messed up -musefool talks about it here better than I could.
** I'm holding out hope for a Babs who's PwD and Batgirl and secretly Oracle and in charge of All The Things, but I don't think DC likes happiness that much.
glass_icarus has more on that), but I'm sticking to reserving judgment and hoping she makes it through okay.* Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood: When I think of the poverty-stricken, sexually and physically abused, self-loathing Native American teenager that I was, I can only wish, immodestly, that I’d been given the opportunity to read “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.” Or Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak.” Or Chris Lynch’s “Inexusable.” Or any of the books that Ms. Gurdon believes to be irredeemable. I can’t speak for other writers, but I think I wrote my YA novel as a way of speaking to my younger, irredeemable self.
* On Colorlines: The Ultimate 21st Century People of Color Sci-Fi List
* The Andrew Loomis figure drawing books are back in print *____*
* Internet Archive becomes archive of physical books, too. The Internet Archive, alarmed to see that many libraries discard books after they are digitized, has decided to start collecting copies of every book ever published, cataloging and storing them in modified shipping containers that serve as long-term archival storage. The stored print-books are to serve as canonical references for the digitized editions.
* They've added two new elements to the periodic table!
* The first volume of The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal is up on Kickstarter
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ladiesbigbang is open for signups!*
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On X-men: First Class*:
* The Quintessential Mutants of America and Mutie Go Home by Ta-Nehisi Coates
* Race and Women in X-Men: First Class on The Mary Sue
*
marina wrote an essay about Erik as a Holocaust survivor. She's also got links to two other great posts.* ETA: the Racialicious roundtable
* Which I saw Tuesday night and, well. These essays made me care more about the movie than the movie did. ALSO: Armando/Alex 4EVAR. If comics!Armando can come back from the dead (like every other X-Men, ever), movie!Armando can do it too.
On the DCNu:
* The good - Static's getting his own title! Also John Stewart and Guy Gardner are getting a buddy book. I usually don't care about the Lanterns, but this could be amazing.
* The ambivalent - Jaime's getting his own book. Which is awesome! Except it's a reboot and the original was so fantastic (and so recent, DC, c'mon) that I'm worried this new version won't stand up.
* The bad - they're knocking Barbara Gordon back to Batgirl - no more Oracle, no more wheelchair and, while the Birds of Prey still exist, chances are good she's not in charge**. In fact, all the news coming out of Gotham (except maybe Batwoman) sounds messed up -
musefool talks about it here better than I could.** I'm holding out hope for a Babs who's PwD and Batgirl and secretly Oracle and in charge of All The Things, but I don't think DC likes happiness that much.
