Since I was traveling last week and didn’t have time to do a regular weekly round up, so here’s a double dose of bookish internet-y-ness:
- Librarians at the Dyersville, Iowa public library called in ghost hunters. (Daily Mail)
- It turns out Jane Eyre is wildly popular in China. (South China Morning Post)
- Claire Handscombe rounded up readers’ responses to the “by age 35, you should have” advice. (Book Riot)
- Jennifer Baker writes about how editors can help authors write more inclusively and diversely. (Electric Literature)
- Anya Kamenetz reports on a study about what happens in children’s brains when they read, providing further evidence that reading is good for you. (NPR)
- Emily Martin rounds up women detectives from the Victorian era. (Book Riot)
- After writing a post last week about why I am sometimes hesitant to assign a genre to a book, I feel vindicated by Corinne Sullivan’s thoughts on classifying books. (The Millions)
- New scientific techniques have found some amazing things on old manuscripts and works of art. (The Verge)
- Sarah Ditum has thoughts about the many anti-feminist dystopias out there. (The Guardian)
- Elisabeth Cohen explores the bizarre sexy librarian stereotype. (The Millions)