• Not book-related, but this video of an otter eating a clam may be the cutest thing I've seen all day: http://bit.ly/9RiJa8 #
• Female werewolves in pop culture: http://bit.ly/9cTF0y #
• Terribly constructed headline. RT @blackvoices 'Partner' Ben Maisani and Anderson Cooper to Adopt Haitian Orphan? http://bit.ly/a30Do6 #
• I am looking forward to the time when I can again read more than 10 pages of a book at one time without dozing off. #
• RT @aakulturezone Book Review: Dreams That Won't Let Go by Stacy Hawkins Adams http://ow.ly/16uTZB #

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The New York Times today has a review of a book called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks that sounds absolutely fascinating.

It’s the true story of a young black woman in the south who had cervical cancer. Doctors took some cells from her body without her knowledge as she was dying circa 1950, and it turns out that those cells, as well as others from her family members, have been used in countless medical studies since then.

Bought and sold and shipped around the world for decades, HeLa cells are famous to science students everywhere. But little has been known, until now, about the unwitting donor of these cells. Mrs. Lacks’s own family did not know that her cells had become famous (and that people had grown wealthy from marketing them) until more than two decades after her death, after scientists had begun to take blood from her surviving family members, without their informed consent, in order to better study HeLa.

I want to read.

Also, does this remind anybody else of Tananarive Due’s Immortals series, about the east Africans with immortal cells/blood?

• If I had $1 for every not-funny "The new Apple product has a name like a feminine hygiene product!1!" joke in my Twitter feed, man… #
• True. RT @koa RT @xirclebox: LOL!! RT @stroughtonsmith: LOL iPad has same accessories Newton had. Hardware keyboard & prop-up case @MrFresh #
• Most expensive $829 #iPad That's still well below what i thought starting price would be. Dang. #
• $499!!!! #iPad #seriously #OMG #Imeanthat #OMG #
• Oh, wait, no contract? Apple can stick with AT&T #iPad #
• I so wish Apple would think beyond AT&T. Just saying. #
• New blog post: First thought on Apple's iPad… http://writeblack.com/?p=827 #
• Sorry, Kindle, but the iBooks app for the iPad looks pretty boss. #
• New blog post: 'Sins of the Mother,' coming soon http://writeblack.com/?p=825 #
• RT @maudnewton Is there a 'typical' New Yorker short story? @mathitak considers: http://bit.ly/71IRU1 (via @electriclit) #
• Finished reading another "grownup" book! 'Twas Beverly Jenkins' latest, & it took me a month. #parenthoodiskickingmy*ss #

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I am so glad I never bought a Kindle.

See this Gizmodo post for more details.

That iBooks store (#SteveJobsruleseverythingaroundme) looks pretty fly.

Are Amazon and Sony quaking in their boots? Probably not, but I’m sure they’re not happy about this.

Set your DVRs, people!

In just a few weeks (Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. ET), the TV movie Sins of the Mother will air on Lifetime. It stars Jill Scott.

Haven’t heard of Sins of the Mother? Well, maybe you remember it as Orange Mint and Honey, by kick-butt novelist (and friend of this blog) Carleen Brice.

• More pics from the movie based on @carleenbrice's 'Orange Mint and Honey': http://bit.ly/4YDuek #
• What's with Bloomsbury whitewashing their book covers, yo? http://bit.ly/8ZXTQT #

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• .@nnedi's take on Princess & the Frog makes me want to see it even more. http://bit.ly/861Ssu But 'twould be bad for me to go w/Baby in tow. #
• Just realized that I have read only two books without pictures in the three months since my daughter was born. Sigh. #

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• Black comics encyclopedia in the works http://bit.ly/8b1Pgo #

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• RT @mat_johnson My man Eric Battle is doing an exhibit of black Marvel superheroes in NYC http://www.marvelouscolor.com/ #

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• 'American Prophet,' about the spirituality of W.E.B. DuBois, is out in paperback finally http://bit.ly/07xiY1M #

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