This fortnight on the bookish internet

Lachlan Bennett profiles Toby Wools-Cobb, a book detective. Maybe if I have to flee the US, I can ask Toby if he needs help down in Tasmania tracking down lost books. (ABC News)
What do you do when someone objects to your library’s drag queen story time? Add more! (Book Riot)
That Erika Kobayashi’s parents quit their jobs to translate Sherlock Holmes stories is probably the least odd thing about growing up in that household. (Crime Reads)
Mary Colussi read five of the most frequently banned/challenged LGBTQ+ books of last year. (Buzzfeed)
Becky Ferreira takes a look at poetry written for extraterrestrials. (Vice)
Erica Brozovsky has a bunch of words from around the world that English needs to steal, immediately. I’ve seen these kinds of round-ups before but these are mostly words I’ve never heard of before. (Otherwords, via Boing Boing)
On a related note: Pippa Bailey explores the history of The Oxford English Dictionary and its lexicographers’ scramble to keep up with all the words English speakers are creating, adapting, and stealing. (New Statesman)
Som-Mai Nguyen turns a critical eye on linguistic determinism, what can go wrong when translators fail to take history and cultural context into account, and why people need to stop making pronouncements about entire cultures based on facile interpretations of language. (Astra)
Katie Moench explains how to start your own little free library. (Book Riot)

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