‘Pornographic’ literature left in an English village’s free book exchange causes controversy
Cornholme is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of 1,694, where generally not very much happens. But this week it has hit headlines in the UK for… Read more »
Plymouth’s RESPECT festival will see people become ‘books’ for Human Library
They say everyone has a book inside them—now a Devon arts festival is looking for people to become a “book” in partnership with the Human Library project. Plymouth’s RESPECT Festival… Read more »
Simon Armitage begins decade-long UK library tour
Back in 2019, a hundred years ago, the UK’s Poet Laureate Simon Armitage announced he was to tour the nation’s libraries each Spring over the next decade, to “give readings… Read more »
Librarians Lobby Leaders on Infrastructure Initiative
If there is one thing we have learned over the years, it is that librarians are fierce! So it came as no surprise when the American Library Association (ALA) sent… Read more »
TikTok proves it can put books on best-seller lists
A recent New York Times piece opens with author E. Lockhart seeing her 2014 book We Were Liars hitting the best-seller list over the summer of 2020. Baffled but pleased,… Read more »
Benefits of bad books? Young reader weighs in
Casting a wide net, our omnivorous marketing director came across an interesting essay written by a high-school student named Daniel Ma and published in something called the Post Bulletin. Young… Read more »
A list of the most popular books set in each country is full of revelations
NetCredit, an online loan marketplace that provides unsecured personal loans, audited the most popular books set in various countries using data from GoodReads. (Wait, what?) I’m supposed to write two… Read more »
What are the other options for those who think GoodReads “sucks” and is “just shy of unbearable”?
Harsh! But Sarah Manavis at The New Statesman is asking the important question for those readers out there who feel that the platform “has become a monster,” “a purgatory” or… Read more »
Studies find that people are finding more time to read and their brains basically can’t process books anymore
Ahh, the age-old conundrum. According to the Guardian, a survey of 1,000 people in the UK claim that their reading time has nearly doubled, that is from 3.5 hours a… Read more »
Surge in sales of “difficult” books during worldwide lockdowns
A few months ago… no, weeks? Last week?! Are you kidding me, last week, a meme went around reminding everyone that Shakespeare (probably, maybe) wrote King Lear while in the 16th-century equivalent of lockdown, from… Read more »