awards season, unsettingly, begins
So it's the beginning of awards season, and list season, and Me and Earl got on some lists that you should know about. Specifically, the Texas Library Association's 2013 Tayshas Reading List, the Atlantic's 25 Most Wonderful Book Covers list, and web.de's 10 Best German Food-Blogs list.
Yeah. I'm very flattered by the first one, very happy for Chad Beckerman and Ben Wiseman vis-a-vis the second, and kind of nonplussed by the third, because the only conclusion I can draw from it is that in Germany, Me and Earl is less of a book and more of a food blog. How this happened, I have no idea and am afraid to find out. The writeup is unapologetically baffling: "Greg and Earl are addicts, cooking addicts. And regarding their addiction they post regularly to their blog, 'Earl and I Regret Rachel's Fatal Illness.' They scold bitterly and discuss the latest restaurants and recipes. Caution: ham-optics!"
Yeah. At the end it says "Vorsicht: Schinken-Optik!" That means caution: ham-optics.
So now I don't 100% know what to do.