So sue me, I missed out on a lot of news this week. So here's the weekend wrapup, all the stuff I forgot to get to involving books and book related news! Enjoy!
President Obama went on a vacation and bought some books. Some made up bullshit controversy came up when he seemed to read a lot of male authors. Holy shit, that bastard. Let's forget that he seems to be promoting some literacy and not out on the ranch pretending to be the Marlboro Man and focus on a trival details like "taste," "preference" and "give the guy a break he's the president not the messiah." reuters
NASA has plans to publish a science fiction series. Yup. Guess that whole "space flight" thing was something they did as a day job while they came up with a kickass space marine idea. mnn
SF Gateway, one of the largest libraries of science fiction, is offering out of print scifi books as ebooks coming soon. Guess what website NASA is waiting on? planetpdf
U.S. Venture donates school supplies and over 1,800 books to school children. I don't have a joke here. Sometimes big business marketing is not so bad. prnewswire
New juvenile book "Maggie Goes on a Diet" shamed for being dangerous and against body type issues. "Debbie Goes on a Run and Eats Healthy" deamed un-American. "Frank Goes Outside" Book Burning to be held on Tuesday. desderetnews
New Jersey school district pulled a book about lesbians for "inappropriate language." Cast of Jersey Shore responds, "That's a fuckin' disgrace. I like lesbians and hope their language get a fair shake, ya know?" foxnews
"To Train Up a Child," a "Christian" book about raising your child through the "spare the rod, spoil the child method" and already associated with at least one child death, is being censored throughout the world. I will not stand for book censorship, so let's just kill all the motherfuckers who beat or tell others to beat their children. stuff.co.nz
The school board in Missouri that banned Slaughterhouse Five is pretending to take a look at the merits of the books because the nation is pissed off at them. It is also no coincidence that Kevin Bacon was seen in the area encouraging children to dance. chron.com