Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed? (“You might wonder what Andre was thinking when he removed the children’s hearts and placed them in his pockets to take home”)
Bookish Linkage
- Ten things that happen to your mind when you read (via)
- What is a book snob?
- Perhaps not surprisingly, a Laura Ingalls Wilder book was South Dakota’s representative in Amazon’s 50 Great American Love Stories
- To save itself, B&N should “get halfway out of the book business” and “abandon its legacy identity“
- Top 10 vicious literary hatchet jobs
Nonbookish Linkage
- Social media for existentialists
- An argument that Blue is the greatest relationship record ever
- Saving the sounds of America
- Science says: Democrats’ brains use the region associated with social and self-awareness and Republicans’ brains use the one
involved with the fight-or flight response - Balancing the electoral college vote would move Sioux Falls from a state “that isn’t half as bad as people make it sound” to the State of Nodaway
- Five of the craziest Valentine’s Day arrests
It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Matthew Stover, Blade of Tyshalle