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This week on the bookish internet

  • So of course librarians got in on the fun of creating Zoom backgrounds. Make yourself look like the most bookish of the bookish with one of these library backgrounds. (Library Journal)
  • Blair Carpenter looks into the trend of swear-y self-help titles. (Book Riot)
  • Naomi Kritzer’s 2015 story, “So Much Cooking,” was supposed to be fiction. But, like many authors of dystopias lately, it turned out to be distressingly prescient. (Tor)
  • When a suitor wouldn’t take no for an answer, Christina Rossetti wrote a poem to make herself absolutely clear. (LitHub)
  • Every Library (heroes!) is offering grants to librarians in need during the COVID crisis. (Book Riot)
  • The nominees for the Hugo Awards are here! (io9)

One thought on “This week on the bookish internet

  1. Who would have thought at the start of the year we’d be worrying about what background to use on a video call. Or even that so many of us would be doing video calls!

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