I had been following the Daily Beast off and on throughout this program. I'm still super-enamored with the Cheat Sheet sidebar, with its mix of publishing news with national/world news. Their "This Week's Hot Reads" is also useful, even if I have yet to really find any books on there that really catch my own interest. In general, I like that the Daily Beast is a big news aggregator, even with a book publishing bent.
The NPR Books site has been very interesting. I found out there is another Bridget Jones book coming soonish (after, what, 14 years?) and just today I was reading a hilarious retrospective on Superman comics and the BA-NA-NAS storylines they engaged in back in the 60s.
I took a look through Flavorpill's 30 Most Anticipated Books of 2013, and came across Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus. Reading further into it, it's one of those reflective, coming-of-age kinds of stories that has a unique twist in that a man and a boy have their lives "reset" - new names, and starting in a new country. The boy is without a mother, so the man vows to reunite the child with his mother. Just the blurb for this book is compelling enough for me to want to read it.
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