I keep a Slack chat open with a group of buddies all day and we spend time in there joking and chatting and complaining. This morning I suggested that Mondays should begin with a sock puppet show to gently ease you into the week, explaining that not only isn’t it the weekend anymore, but that it is time to sober up and start doing the things you are expected to, accompanied by a primer on what those things are. “You are a ______. That means you do things like _____, ______, and _______. And if you don’t do these things, you will die impoverished and alone.” Then the puppets would hand you a coffee and say, “Take your time. So long as you’re at your desk by nine.” Here’s hoping a browse through news of the shitshow that is our world acts as that puppet show for you today. Up and atom!
- Gentle, fun book quiz to start your week (wait til after lunch so you don’t fail and cry at your desk);
- Neil GaimTan’s Goodreads got hacked (is Goodreads still a thing?);
- How pubs can take advantage of artificial intelligence (for when, you know, regular intelligence doesn’t work out);
- On literary MILFs (article SFW, but if you don’t know what the term MILF means, don’t Google it til you’re on your own computer… even then if you’re prudish);
- 13 pioneering black librarians;
- On the reading habits of 20C authors;
- How we acquired our language of infection;
- Diversity in Westerns? (We’ve been watching through Sergio Leone movies with the kids, so they probably assume diversity in Westerns is limited to white American and Italians);
- GGs pushed to 2021;
- Rate buster children’s author has 12 books this year;
- Don’t anyone feel sorry for TK421 Musk, or whatever the kid is called… There’s no tragedy being born a billionaire;
- Another one of these “how to” articles for self-published types;
- Why we’re reading bucket list books during quarantine;
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