Goodreads Choice Awards

The YA dystopian sequel CATCHING FIRE won the first annual Goodreads Choice Awards. The third book in former Nickelodeon writer Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series is due out in August this year, and I hear good things from literary quarters about the first two.

Top fiction and nonfiction honors went to book club favorite Kathryn Stockett's THE HELP and Dave Cullen's COLUMBINE. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES lost in its category by 13 votes to one of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels, but at least one book I voted for won: Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE smacked down Dan Brown to take first in the mystery/thriller category.

If you don't use Goodreads already, it's really fun to play around with either to make pithy comments or longer reviews on what you're reading. A neat feature I never use any more but should is the ability to order your to-read list according to which books you're going to read right away, and which can wait a while. Ideal for the short attention span! If you're on already, let's be friends.