Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Now That Books Mean Nothing (“As much as I may want (or have wanted) it to be so, books haven’t been a sufficient comfort or diversion as I prepared to lose my boobs, then lost them, and began trying to adjust to their absence from my body.”)
- What Is a Book? (“These next few years will determine not if we preserve the history of print culture, but how.”)
- A Foreign Policy for the Left (“The best and last example of leftist pretending is the insistence on the reasonableness of people who give no sign of being reasonable.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Blog Line of the Week
Lawsuit of the Week
- A Brooklyn woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that even though she’s taped her husband’s death certificate to the front door of her apartment (he died in 2006), the NYPD keeps raiding it looking for her husband
Legal Ruling of the Week
- An “inactive” Tennessee lawyer’s effort to intervene in a Florida case seeking to force Florida to recognize gay marriage because he wants to marry his “porn-filled Apple computer” was denied by the federal judge
Bookish Linkage
- How writing creates the world
- Inside a North Korean bookstore
- Culling your e-bookshelves (something I really need to do)
- When SF turns real
- Why literary genres matter
- Bookish Lists: Best war and history books of all time; 12 dead authors you should follow on Twitter; this year’s most overlooked books (so far); 10 words every book lover should know; and, 10 greatest SF novels written by women
Nonbookish Linkage
- 40 maps that explain the Middle East
- What happens when your four-year-old daughter suddenly has mysterious bruises?
- For Mother’s Day, 10 weird legal cases involving moms
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
