You made it! High five. As of 5pm, your only job is to forget you have a job until Monday morning at 6am. Good luck! Yesterday marks a year since Bookninja reopened its “doors” to the public. Hope you’re enjoying.

- Wisdom from Ninja favourite M. NourbeSe Philip: “Were we truly ‘in this together,’ we would not be in ‘this’ together!”;
- Sales news from Murca: trade books go up, education books go down;
- Walter Mosley to receive special NBA award for lifetime work;
- CSI: Biblical;
- Libraries get innovative to tackle literacy challenges;
- The world’s oddest libraries?;
- Would you buy the house that inspired Wuthering Heights?;
- We need more Indigenous talent to adapt more Indigenous work;
- Nick Hornby interviewed;
- Santa Fe tells George Martin he can’t build a giant castle library;