Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- The Wanderers (“Once lost, people with dementia often begin to wander toward a past they think is present, returning in mind to a period in their lives more familiar than the foggy now. They are lost literally and lost in history[.]”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Innovative Murder Attempt of the Week
- An Arizona woman this week was sentenced to a year in jail and four years probation for putting “fecal matter” in his hospital IV
Bookish Linkage
- South Dakota is a bad place for book lovers to declare bankruptcy
- A dream day at the bookstore
- Expressing civil disobedience through books
- A 20 year perspective on the NYT Book Review‘s annual “Notable Books” list
- Is a reader’s best tool a pen in their hand?
Nonbookish Linkage
- We don’t need no stinkin’ facts
- Nine ways excessive Christian zealotry ruins America
- The most insidious conspiracy theories of 2014
- Employees at corporations of 1,000 employees or more only spend 45 percent of their time on primary job duties — and that doesn’t count the time they spend just not working
- Enjoy the 2014 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.
Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist