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The Guardian had a sweet and cool book [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/07/dr-seuss-book-what-pet-should-i-get-breaking-sales-records story] for you recently. Apparently, Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman is not the only recently discovered book to be heading up the bestseller lists. Doctor Seuss's ''What Pet Should I Get?'' has become the fastest-selling picture book at 200,000 copies in its first week. Aww. We like this. And we wonder how many nostalgic adults number in that 200,000. Not us, but we were sorely tempted!
Author Catherine Nichols has [[http://jezebel.com/homme-de-plume-what-i-learned-sending-my-novel-out-und-1720637627 exposed] sexism in the publishing industry. She sent her novel out to 50 agents under her own name and got just 2 responses. But when she sent the same pages and the same covering letter out, but with a male name, she received 17 responses. Ouch. That hurts. And so it should. An industry such as publishing, which has many women working in it, should do better, right? Right?!
And will the next couple of months bring us the first ever American Booker Prize winner? The bookies [http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/aug/06/man-booker-international-prize-2015-bookies-odds think so]. Hanya Yanagihara’s ''A Little Life '' is the current favourite. Will he win? Will you be happy if he does? And who would ''you'' like to see crowned?
