Oh, Zadie

[Zadie, clutching one of her books]

We're Sorry! Okay, I just wanted to get that out of the way before I commence to posting. We (as in the fabulously bookish/ridiculously busy bookworms of this blog) have completely neglected our project in favor of other delights, like starting new jobs, going to school, moving, and overall conquering the world.

So anyway, I hope that we'll be back to regular reading + posting glory soon, but until then I just wanted to quickly draw your attention to a Mrs. Zadie Smith. If you don't know Zadie, you definitely should. She's a young, biracial British author who's three novels have all been considered new classics. I've been trying to read her latest On Beauty for about a year now but always seem to get distracted. My sister (Miss Sweet Jones on The Real 7) read it and raved about it.

[On Beauty, by Zadie Smith]

Anyway, she is mentioned in a recent Guardian article about upcoming writers that actually live up to the hype. How often does that happen?

Maybe a new, fresh voice is just what we UL girls need to kickstart our book club?

-- Whitney