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Sunday, October 4 — from 10 AM to 5 PM — is the 3rd Annual New York Times Great Children’s Read! This free event will be held at Columbia University’s main quad at 116th and Broadway and features live readings by notable New Yorkers of children’s books selected by librarians from the New York Public Library system. Additionally, there’ll be food, giveaways, and an on-site Target bookstore, and cultural and community partners with a variety of fun activities for kids and parents alike.

New York Comic Con will be there with markers, crayons, mazes, and coloring books all day along with some special guests!

Misako Rocks! will be signing at our booth from 11 AM to 1 PM
Neil Numberman will be signing at our booth from 1 PM to 3 PM

And there may be a cosplayer or two posing with the kids! If you’d like to spend Sunday at a kid-friendly and family-fun event in NYC, stop by the New York Times Great Read!

Sunday, October 4
10 AM - 5 PM
Columbia University
116th Street & Broadway
www.nytimes.com/greatread

That’s right - I’ve got a brand spankin’ new copy of Kevin Smith’s Batman: Cacophony graphic novel to take home with me this weekend. I am pretty darn excited. I’ve also got American Gods by Neil Gaiman on my nightstand, as well as The Lost Symbol. And Naamah’s Kiss waiting for me at the library. Whew, lot of reading to do!

What are y’all reading this weekend?

Yes, I just said “y’all.” Deal with it. You can’t take the Midwest outta this girl!

I cannot believe it has been a year.

I guess it is true, the old adage: Time flies when having fun!

It has been an interesting year, one filled with magic, wonder and learning. Suvudu launched right before the 2008 San Diego Comic Con on July 18, 2008 and covered that convention with a few hearty souls who fought through the masses of fellow geeks and nerds to bring great video content of the event to the internet(s). We had hopes but we really didn’t know what to expect with the website. Like any newborn, it could grow in many different ways, shapes and spurts. We were confident, however, that we had something to offer connoisseurs of fantasy and science fiction in books, movies and comic books—and we weren’t wrong.

Thankfully, Suvudu was well received and then took off into the stratosphere.

Looking back, Suvudu has grown considerably. I contributed the initial launching post HERE, and since then we’ve had numerous editors, publicists and writers blog about an array of topics.

Like Ali Kokmen, Del Rey employee and Manga Expert!

Oh. Wait. We’ve done far more than standing Against the Darkness!

Continue on to read a year in mini-review as well as what we have planned for the future!

On Monday, June 29th, author Jacqueline Carey came to Seattle on tour in support of her new books, Naamah’s Kiss and Santa Olivia.

As usual, she stopped by The Signed Page to sign copies for her fans all over the world. You can read about that online signing HERE.

But after that signing, she had her normal event at the University Bookstore where she met with her adoring fans to read from her forthcoming 2010 book Naamah’s Curse as well as answer questions and sign books.

Suvudu was there to video it.

Here are five videos taken from the event, Part 2 being the reading from her next book, Naamah’s Curse! Enjoy!

Part 1 - 2009 Jacqueline Carey NAAMAH’S KISS Event - Intro

I really enjoy airports.

All the different people. All of the emotions. The magnificence of flight that this science fiction geek loves. About the only thing I don’t like is being “randomly selected” to be subjected to additional wand searches every time I go through airport security.

Being bald and sinister-looking like China Mieville has its perks, but not at today’s airports!

Last Friday I flew to Las Vegas to watch my brother over the weekend play in the Masters Pool Tournament. Pool is his passion, like sci-fi/fantasy is my passion, and I try to support him as much as I can. It was a fun trip. But as my airplane throttled up on the runway to return to Seattle it was shut down suddenly and upon returning to the terminal we learned the air conditioning system had malfunctioned.

Not good, right?

That isn’t the half of it. We had to wait an additional six hours before another plane arrived to fly us back to Seattle. That is a lot of time, time I used to edit more on my book and walk around the airport. After using an $8.00 meal voucher given me by the airline—which didn’t cover the lowest priced meal in the terminal, of course—I entered Hudson News, an airport store specializing in reading materials for travelers, to discover what kind of sci-fi/fantasy titles airport goers might be buying right now.

Here is what I found:

I was maybe ten at the time and a frequent library goer. The hometown library in the town where I grew up was nothing more than a converted farm house with an addition added on to the back and the librarians who worked there surely knew my brother and me by name. For as often as I was in there, my most vivid memory involves not finding what I was looking for.

I remember it was summer, it was sunny, and warm and my brother and I were trying to kill off a few more hours and stave away boredom in the middle of one of those long, drawn out summer afternoons. So we went to the library because we could get stuff there for free and it was air-conditioned. To this day, I have no idea why I asked for what I asked for, but I had a very specific subject in mind.

Up to the counter I strode, put my hands on the desk in front of the librarian, and asked, “Where can I find a book on Jack the Ripper?”

I think you know where this conversation went and our librarian didn’t waste time in going there. I was too young to be asking about such material, but they did have some books on ghosts that I might like. So what I ended up with was not Jack the Ripper, but a book of Edgar Allen Poe. My brother and I passed the day in our town park reading Poe’s stories to each other.

More after the jump…

There are already thousands of words in print that would serve as a finer and more worthy eulogy for David Foster Wallace than any of us could deliver. Let his own words bear his memory for us: The Broom of the System, The Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Oblivion, Consider the Lobster, Infinite Jest.

Whatever else I have to say is just personal, of limited public interest, and entirely insufficient to convey what exactly has been lost.