- Allie Alvis wrote an amazing history of people organizing books to please themselves and other people heartily disapproving of their aesthetically pleasing shelves. (Book Historia)
- Katie Barrett rounds up forgotten novels of the nineteenth century and challenges us to read and review them on Goodreads. (Internet Archive Blog)
- Emily Wenstrom explains ‘hopepunk,’ and offers reading suggestions to get started. (Book Riot)
- Lyndsie Manusos does the same for ‘silkpunk.’ (Book Riot)
- Sam Blum hunted down the origins of some of our favorite—but decidedly odd—English idioms. (Lifehacker)
- Molly Templeton contemplates to-read lists and cognitive dissonance in an effort to explain why we never seem to get around to all those books we planned to read. (Tor Blog)
- Alyssa Shotwell reports on the latest kerfuffle with the Romance Writers Association: giving an award to a book in which the protagonist participates in an act of genocide. (The Mary Sue)
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Really enjoyed that Molly Templeton article, thanks for pointing me to it. Especially the comments, I read every single one (thirty at last update) and nodded my head over and over, chuckled a few times in recognition. Me and toppling piles of books and my exponentially-growing online lists of bookish desires, are not at all alone!
Sometimes I prune my to-read list on Goodreads–when it starts to get so overwhelming that I feel like I need three lifetimes to get to everything. The problem is that, a lot of the time, when I read the description to see if the book still appeals to me, it does! Same thing happens when I try to weed my book collection.