Here is a roundup of the tweets that you might’ve missed this week!
Books
@PenguinTeen .@sarahdessen‘s#SaintAnything is one of@BnBuzz‘s top teen fiction picks for May! http://bit.ly/1E9gtDt@harperteen Get to know the Selected suitors from THE HEIR by@kieracass. Watch the interviews: http://shrd.by/Sw1v29@GdnChildrensBks Lauren Oliver: I lost a boy I loved in my 20s and it changed me. Interview with Delirium author@OliverBooks: http://gu.com/p/486am/stw@kieracass Did a little interview with@EW: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/05/kiera-cass-talks-latest-ya-novel-heir …@NYPL Fantasy of Power and Betrayal:@NYPL recommends Game of Thrones readalikes for teens. http://on.nypl.org/1F45bGr@GuardianBooks Which books made the Branford Boase shortlist 2015? http://gu.com/p/4858a/stw via@GdnChildrensBks@BranfordBoase@HuffPostBooks Mindy Kaling announced a release date for her second book, and we seriously can’t. wait. http://huff.to/1JOXsNz@BookRiot 3 On a YA Theme: Realistic Fairy Tale Retellings http://ow.ly/MAr1J@TheMarySue Oh, for a Time-Turner!@jk_rowling has apologized for killing off one of her#HarryPotter characters. http://www.themarysue.com/rowling-apologizes-for-killing-potter-character/ …
TV/Movie News
@Deadline Katherine McNamara Cast As Female Lead In ‘Shadowhunters’ On ABC Family http://deadline.com/2015/05/katherine-mcnamara-cast-female-lead-shadowhunters-abc-family-series-1201421824/ …@annehelen THERE’S GOING TO BE A MYST TV SERIES?!?! http://www.blastr.com/2015-5-6/hulu-picks-high-concept-tv-series-based-1990s-video-game-myst …@Variety Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s#Supergirl with a series order at CBS. http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/supergirl-cbs-melissa-benoist-greg-berlanti-1201489184/ …@MTV We need more#BlackWidow merchandise. Please & thank you: http://on.mtv.com/1Ka56yM#WheresNatasha@AlyssaRosenberg On Black Widow and the Hulk as an inverse Buffy and Angel: http://wapo.st/1QishLf
Librarianship
@ALALibrary#nlld15 was a success! Check out our update on District Dispatch http://www.districtdispatch.org/2015/05/hundreds-to-gather-in-d-c-for-41st-annual-national-library-legislative-day/ …@jacksondevious NSFW John Oliver interview w/ Snowden referred to by Ashley Houghton on#nlld15. Hilarious but scary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M&sns=tw … via@youtube@educationweek What’s wrong with standardized testing? Watch@iamjohnoliver offer his analysis: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2015/05/whats-wrong-with-standardized-testing-watch-john-oliver-give-an-explanation.html?cmp=soc-edit-tw …@Scholastic Authors@mstiefvater,@JacksonPearce,@mdnorthrop,@laurenTarshis, & more have teamed up to celebrate#summerreading http://bit.ly/1OXoBS1@sljournal Why Makerspaces are Changing the World — Medium http://ow.ly/MDRcS
Just for Fun!
@Grammarly Missed out on#MayThe4thBeWithYou? Learn to speak like Yoda: http://bit.ly/tw_yodaspeak@nypl You love#bookface,@NYPL loves#bookface, the@nytimes loves#bookface! http://on.nypl.org/1IbAeRf@BuzzFeed Choose your own teenage adventure: Can you survive a day of high school? http://bzfd.it/1F0Jc1l
-Katie Shanahan Yu, currently reading The Heir by Kiera Cass
