Book Buzz

• Dig out your prom dresses, ladies. Borders and Barnes & Noble (as well as every other bookstore in the land) are hosting release parties for Breaking Dawn tomorrow night. Those of us that weren’t asked to prom (I’m still in therapy over it) are out of luck.
  

• If you can’t wait until Saturday midnight for your Stephenie Meyer fix, USA Today has an interview with her today. For those who finish Breaking Dawn in one day, YALSA recommends “read-alikes.” Borders suggests Meyer fans try L. J. Smith’s Night World and P.C. and Kristin Cast’s Marked.
  

• Does all this Twilight Saga talk make you feel a little green? This year’s The Green Earth Book Awards went to Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming by Jean Davies Okimoto and Jeremiah Trammell, The Light-Bearer’s Daughter by O.R. Melling, and The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon. Or maybe you need a little Christianity to battle the vampire blues. The Word of Promise: New Testament Audio Bible won the 2008 Christian Book of the Year Award.
  

• I recently learned that publishers actually post trailers for books on YouTube. This article doesn’t think it’s such a great idea. As for me, I’ll likely end up wasting hours playing on the site trying to find other trailers. Another marketing trick? Putting "chick flick" covers on all books by female authors. The Guardian is not happy about the trend.
  

• When I read this week’s The New York Times Sunday Book Review section, I thought I’d stepped back in time. They have reviews of Books: A Memoir, Assisted Loving, and Say You’re One of Them. Come on, NYT, you’re letting me down. Can’t you afford to review books when they first come out?