Simple

RealSimple, I'm disappointed in you.

You published an attractive and nicely annotated list of "The Best Blogs" in your March 2008 issue. You covered home, organizing and personal productivity, food, beauty, fashion, health and fitness, parenting and family, news and pop culture, and travel.

But not BOOKS.

Nope, not a single literary blog made the list. And this from a magazine that has done bookshelf makeovers.

You did have a cool quote that went with the story:

"Private opinion creates public opinion." --Jan Struther, A Pocketful of Pebbles

Well, my private opinion is that you messed up. And I'm going public with it.

On the other hand---and this almost redeems you in my eyes---your featured quote for the month of May is from Madeleine L'Engle:

"The greatest thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." (as quoted in the New York Times on April 25, 1985)

So come on, RealSimple, if you want your readers with children or teenagers to get the most out of blogs and the Internet, you should feature:

7-Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Picture Book Tips for Impossibly Busy Parents or Slightly Demented Picture Books if you're daring)

or Jen Robinson's Growing Bookworms Newsletter,

or PlanetEsme's Yearly Index of Best Books,

or the launch of Guy Lit Wire in June.

It's simple; it really is.