Okay, I’m not saying that Ben Esch and Brenda Woods and I kicked ass at the downtown library during the LAYAs Teen Read Week extravaganza yesterday, except that we totally kicked ass at the downtown library during the LAYAs Teen Read Week extravaganza yesterday.    This is due to the SHEER AWESOMENESS that was our librarian-in-charge, Rachel, who is not only a ROCK STAR, a snazzy dresser, and a GREAT librarian, but also baked brownies and chocolate spice cookies, which totally enhanced the GRAND TIME BEING HAD BY ALL!  Ben read from Sophomore Undercover, Brenda read from Emako Blue, and I read from She’s So Money, and there were lots of cool questions from the audience, and we watched some Family Guy, and it was all-around fantabulousness (ESPECIALLY for the kids who won prizes—free Guitar Hero, anyone?).  By the way, the Teenscape section of the downtown library is itself worthy of writeup...it has tons of computers, books, manga, bean bag chairs, and a huge TV, and just generally is a place where you could comfortably and happily spend large quantities of time.  So HOORAY FOR TEEN READ WEEK!!!  Which is STILL GOING ON!  So read some YA, dammit, and if you want some *free* YA, allow me to again pimp out the two DUPLIKATE contests going on right now!

http://www.chicklitteens.com/2009/10/birthday-extravaganza-cherry-cheva.html

http://teens.freebookfriday.com/