Quelle surprise. Canada Reads is a shitshow of uneducated opinion and polarized ideology (which are, I believe, the base ingredients for a whole host of reality programming recipes). For those of you keeping score: OF COURSE the men, including one who wears a hat from 200 years ago, don’t get/believe Megan Coles’ book and immediately tried to vote it off the island…It’s like a masterclass in frat boy denialism… “Nope. That chick is CRAZY, man! Didn’t happen like that! Lalalalala! I can’t hear youuuuuu!”

- Variety looks at noted TERF JK Rowling’s declining sales;
- James Patterson is reviving The Shadow;
- Guardian’s Not-The-Booker Prize… Go nominate your pals;
- Thriller awards handed out… Mulholland Books wins (Ms. Ninja, aka Elisabeth de Mariaffi will have her American edition with them next year);
- Mary T’s book on her mouth-breathing uncle is breaking records;
- Sponsors of Borderlands withdraw support until owner leaves;
- Are you a books person who knows what ONIX means? Givver;
- Did you know Dorothy Parker’s ashes are interred at the NAACP HQ in Baltimore? Here’s why;
- What is the future of Powell’s?;
- All the books mentioned in Clueless;
- Missed this piece about Chinese language kids books being racist;