It never rains but it pours around these parts. Or droughts, apparently, as we have gone from 0 to 60 on book events and coverage and 100 to…about 50, and falling fast, on TV. But what else is there to do over the long hot summer but read? And at least down here in the sticky South, summer has already arrived, calendar definitions notwithstanding. If you were too busy reading at the beach, or on your boat, or down in the French Quarter at a bar, to check in every day, raise a glass to me, becuase I’ve got you covered. Here’s my cheat-sheet, my sometimes-weekly run-down of our original content so that you can slip away into someone else’s world, sure that you didn’t miss something awesome.
Events
BSC Review attended BookExpo America (BEA) 2010, and we came back with a slew of reports:
Gaming editor/fantasy author BT Robertson’s day
Editor in chief Elena Nola’s day
Contributor/book blogger Lexie C’s day
Owner Damon Cap’s day (from BSC Kids)
Lexie’s report from the YA Editor’s Buzz panel
And for something different, Jay Tomio updates us on his continued re-reading and reacting to Steve Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon project
Interviews
Jill Carroll interviews actor Geoff Stults from ABC’s Happy Town
Jill Carroll also interviews actor Warren Christie from Happy Town
BT Robertson video interview with SFF mastermind Cory Doctorow from BEA
Elena Nola video interview with urban fantasy author Anton Strout from BEA
Elena Nola video interview with fantasy author Karen Miller from BEA
Video interview with Erik Mona of Paizo Publishing about their new Pathfinder game and book series
Elena Nola video interview with Anne Fortier, author of Juliet, from BEA
Elena Nola video interview with Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, from BEA
Book Reviews
dragonwomant on Night Runner by Max Turner
Kelly Christiansen on How to Be Adored: a Girl’s Guide to Hollywood Glamour by Caroline Cox
Philip Sobel on Helsreach by Aaron Dembski Bowden
Professor Crazy on For the Win by Cory Doctorow
Lexie C on Except the Queen by Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder
Samantha Corley on The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
At the Movies
Emily Pritchard on Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time
Jill Carroll on Sex and the City 2
The Week in Television
Gerald So on the season finale of The Big Bang Theory “The Lunar Excitation”
Eli on the season 8 (and series) finale of 24, episodes 22-24, 2:00-4:00PM
Scott Parker on the season finale of CSI: Miami “All Fall Down”
Gerald So on the NCIS season finale “Rule Fifty-One”
Gerald So on the NCIS: Los Angeles season finale “Callen G”
Jill Carroll on Happy Town “Slight of Hand”
Gerald So on Burn Notice season premiere “Friends and Enemies”
Gaming
Alberto Diaz on Red Dead Redemption
Columns
Everyone’s favorite romance round-up returns with another installment of The Bodice Rippeth
Irregular Contributors
Special thanks to Guy Gavriel Key for stopping by to guest blog about his next book Under Heaven and the narrowing gap between a writer’s private life and public image, thanks to the omnipresent interwebs
