Week Seven, Assignment Three: Comment on a pair o' Blogs

"Choose any two of the following blogs/websites.  Follow them for a week and post comments."

I chose John Green's fansite/blog/vlog Books, and his Tumblr, and Shannon Hale's Squeetus Blog. 

John Green, author of the hyper-popular The Fault of Our Stars, has a very entertaining vlog/blog in Books, with loads of updates on his fresh-born daughter Alice, born June 3.  This is apparently put together by one Hank, who looks like the famous cowdog of the same moniker.  (Hank actually looks more like Stephen Merchant but with a name like "Hank," you gotta throw in a cowdog reference.)  There's some good content here, even some interviews with Green. 

Hank the Cowdog

Stephen Merchant, friend of Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington

Of course anything remotely "official" to the current most-popular YA author will be successful -- that's kind of the nature of the beast -- but both these sites are, I think -- the second slightly less so, but that's probably a generational thing: I think Tumblr is silly. 

Shannon Hale's blog is very entertaining.  I especially enjoyed her self-deprecating responses to the successful author's never-ending question, "will there be a sequel to Princess Academy?"  She facetiously responds that, beyond the "real" sequel, Palace of Stone, a whole cottage industry will be springing up, her "new" sequels illustrated with cover art for the first slew, which will include Vampires in Love, Laser Eyes, and Revenge of the Mountain Goat.  I suppose these would be even funnier if I'd read Princess Academy.