HELLO DECEMBER! Ohmygosh. There’s only one month left in 2018, can you believe it? Electric Literature asks is Iceland the most literary country in the world? This is a really wonderful introduction to the history of Icelandic literature and the trajectory it has taken to…

BookRiot has all the details on the recently announced Netflix adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s REBECCA Look at that: just a few weeks ago I was telling y’all all about how much I love the book Rebecca and now there’s a Netflix film coming, which…

So, fun fact: today is my birthday! And no, I will not tell you how old I am and it was very rude of you to ask (j/k. I’m 37). Also, I have no idea what is happening with the graphic I chose for this…

From Bustle: Author Caitriona Lally just won a prestigious award from the university where she works as a janitor It’s like a real-life Good Will Hunting or something. I also love hearing about all of the “real jobs” other writers have. Iowa Public Radio has…

From Book Riot, Hallowqueen: Queer Horror Books Excuse me while I furiously write every single title down. (Also, who else is watching The Haunting of Hill House? Can we talk about how Theo is one of the most amazing television characters ever?) Over on LitHub,…

From the New York Times, 12 authors write about the libraries they love I don’t even know how you choose just one library. CrimeReads has a piece on reading Rebecca in the age of Trump I grew up reading Rebecca from a fairly young age…

By: Jill Grunenwald  Plagiarism Today has an interesting piece on how and why schools revoke degrees Remember, kids: always cite your sources. Over on Vulture, Tana French talks about red herrings I love pretty much everything Tana French writes and I love reading about her…

By: Jill Grunenwald As Lucy Maud Montgomery once wrote, I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. And, here we are, the first Monday 5×5 of the month. The Establishment discusses how public libraries are outgrowing their classist roots Ah, Melvil…

Publisher’s Weekly discusses the fact that Susan Orleans knows librarians are superheroes I’m so excited for this book, and not just because it may give the Professional Book Nerds another opportunity to interview Susan. Instead, when we did interview she was working on this book…

If you noticed an absence of 5x5s for the past two weeks it’s because I was off getting married! We are both librarians so, naturally, we had a library-themed wedding and took wedding photos at the Cleveland Public Library. But, because of the small break…