- Jamie Canaves reveals that a lot of people on Goodreads don’t know how to identify genres. (Book Riot)
- Janet Beard writes in praise of Tess of the D’Urbervilles and what it can tell us in the age of #MeToo. (LitHub)
- Ashley Holstrom’s thoughts about quitting in the middle of a book turned out to be extremely relevant, since I gave up on a book just this week. (Book Riot)
- Why do Americans spell things differently from the Brits? It’s partly Noah Webster’s fault. (Merriam-Webster Blog)
- No more library fines in Northern Ireland! Now we just need to get the rest of the world on board. (Belfast Telegraph)
- Caitlin Hobbs talks about cultural appropriation in the horror genre. (Book Riot)
- Mary Wellesley tells the story of John Manly and Edith Rickert, who went looking for lost parts of The Canterbury Tales. (LitHub)
- Contemplating participating in NaNoWriMo? Emily Martin has some great advice. (Book Riot)
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Books getting mislabeled into the wrong genre on Goodreads just baffles me. Somebody did it first by mistake I guess, and then others just followed suit? I read Tess years ago, right before the MeToo movement started. I can see clearly now how all that resonates in the novel. Great book. Made me want to read more classics. Quitting in the middle- ha! I’ve gotten better at letting myself give up on books. History of how words get into or left out of dictionaries is fascinating. And It’s nice my library stopped giving library fines last year, but I was always ok to pay them anyway. Interesting articles!