Printz Award

Normally I don't care about award winning books. I think they tend to be pretentious and literary, whereas I read for pure entertainment value.

However, I was a little dismayed when Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi won the Printz award. Because it's a bad book? No, far from it. Because I had never heard of it and I'm a teen librarian and dystopian reads have long been my favorite genre (after time travel but there's not as many time travel books as there are dystopian.)

I started reading it yesterday and have been devouring it! I've got 100 pages to go.

So, I'm not going to write a review now. I'm just going to say that my perception of awards has been changed. At least slightly....