On Cabals and Pre-Apocalypses

So! Interesting day.

It's difficult for me to even talk about this, to sum it up in a concise way. Writer Foz Meadows has a pretty good run-down of what the YA blog-o-sphere looked like today.

Go, read that. Then come back.

Here's my role in all of this. Three years ago now, I started reviewing every book I read. Someone on metafilter suggested that a good way for fast readers to get paid small bucks for their work was to review for ALA Booklist. But you needed clips. So I started reviewing...