Dedication

The Nanny Diaries authors (movie out April 20) have a new book coming out in June called Dedication.

BL on Dedication: McLaughlin and Kraus, authors of the popular novel The Nanny Diaries(2002), venture back to the 1980s in their third novel. Kate Hollis fell in love with Jake Sharpe in grade school, dated him in high school, and at 30, has yet to get over him. How can she when Jake, now a rock star with several hit singles to his name, has spent the last 10 years singing about her and about their relationship? When Kate hears that Jake has returned to their hometown with his new fiancee in tow, she jumps on a plane, ready to confront him for exploiting their personal memories in his quest for superstardom. But when Kate sees him again, all her old feelings churn to the surface, and her resolve weakens further when she learns he feels the same. But just as the novel barrels toward what appears to be the most cliched of endings, the authors pull out a surprise and give the reader, and Kate, a completely unexpected and wholly satisfying conclusion. With the movie version of The Nanny Diaries due out this spring, expect considerable interest in the authors' latest outing.

Jodi Picoult writing Wonder Woman comics

While not quite as exciting as Joss Whedon writing season 8 of Buffy as a comic, I'm still very interested in reading Wonder Woman as written by bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult. Read DC's interview with Picoult:

http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=7097

The Children of Hurin

New Tolkien (sort of)!

LJ: Having rummaged through his father's multitudinous papers for 30 years, Christopher Tolkien was finally able to pull together the various pieces (some previously published) that make up this story-important background for the creation of Middle-earth.

The Raw Shark Texts

This book has some of the most strangely intriguing book reviews I've ever read. It apparently was a hit at the London Book Fair and has a 125,000 first printing.

From Kirkus: "If Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami collaborated on Moby-Dick crossed with The Wizard of Oz, they might produce something like Hall’s deliriously ambitious debut..."

From PW: "...a cerebral page-turner that pits corporeal man against metaphysical sharks that devour memory and essence...a fast-moving cyberpunk mashup of Jaws, Memento and sappy romance that's destined for the big screen."

Now You Love Me

Michigan author Liesel Litzenburger has a new book out called Now You Love Me, which the March 2 issue of Entertainment Weekly gives an A- and is the EW Pick for the week.

EW review: Annie, a 9-year-old in a Michigan resort town, narrates Lisel Litzenburger's Now You Love Me, the story of her broken family. Her dad skips town for an extra-long ''trip'' and never returns, leaving her mom to raise her and her 5-year-old brother. The focus is Mom, who drives too fast, dates a loopy electrician, and steals the neighbor's car. Litzenburger ingeniously refracts the familiar elements of a typical divorce tale through Annie, who lends both innocence and distance to the drama of, say, Mom's trip to rehab. Even small episodes are enlarged through the eyes of this insightful and totally believable little girl. A-