Halfway there, folks. It’s just up ahead, that Friday, waiting; lens flares shining on its shoulders like sunlight glinting off the dew on a cold bottle of beer. Look, it’s waving at you! “Come sit with me and have a drink, pal,” it says. You don’t have to wear a mask with me… Power through, people. Don’t let the end of the world ruin this for you.
- George RR Martin wants to be The Fat Controller;
- Be nice to your local service people: make them a book;
- BookExpo goes online!;
- Librarians follow!;
- Are libraries safe to go back to?;
- Is Waterstones’ book quarantine plan feasible?;
- May is also Jewish Heritage month, so here’s some CBC listicle suggestions;
- Former UK kids laureate is out of hospital after the ‘Rona;
- Is lockdown a good time to spruce up your bookstore?;
- Dracula’s birthday;
- Basically everything that BookNet publishes is juuuuust out of my conceptual reach, but I know some of you swim in this sea of metadata nonsense;
- NPR looking at the effects of the pandemic on publishing;
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