Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Books are dangerous (“It is not for nothing that reading was always feared throughout history. It is indeed a risky activity: reading possesses the power to capture the imagination, create emotional upheaval and force people towards an existential crisis.”)
- An Open Letter to Those Who Give Kids Banned Books (“Teachers, librarians, and other adults getting books into the hands of teenagers can never know which might be the one that changes a life, but they — we — can accept that every single time we partake in the magical act of pressing a book into the hands of teens, we impact their lives.”)
- What’s the Best Way to Die? (“…a painless death is a pretty American way to think about dying.”)
Cheapest Criminal of the Week
- A North Carolina judge has been indicted for trying to bribe an FBI agent with “a couple of cases of beer“
Bookish Linkage
- This was the rule at our house: kids should read whatever they want, whenever they want
- The Independent‘s book quiz successfully guessed my age
- Romanian convicts can reduce their sentence by 30 days for each book they publish while serving time in prison
- My longstanding view of National Novel Writing Month: just because you love books doesn’t mean you have to write one
Nonbookish Linkage
- Who pays the price for the First Amendment?
- A look at jihadi magazines
- Financial strain is increasing the death rate among middle-aged, white non-Hispanics
- The man who invented relaxation
- Nuclear weapons finished second to the selfie stick among tech leaders asked which technology they most wish could be un-invented
If you only read the books everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
