I have so many bookish links from around the web that I’d love to share with you, that I’ve decided to make this a new recurring feature. Along with random news that’s caught my eye recently, I’ll also be putting my list of favorite posts from other bloggers here, rather than in my monthly round-up post. Please let me know if you find this a helpful format!
Just Browsing
- A fun survey of cover designs through the years for Mary Stewart’s Madam, Will You Talk?
- Twelve different scholars created an online annotated version of Alice in Wonderland, one chapter each.
- Why are the bestselling authors of hiking memoirs not real thru-hikers? A fascinating analysis of the phenomenon from The New Yorker.
- If you can’t make it to Washington DC, here’s your chance to take a look inside the Folger Shakespeare Library.
- United Slang of America: Each state gets a word of its own.
- Sherlock Holmes infographics bring to light some surprising statistics.
List Love
- Back to school: Eight great novels about campus life.
- The Herdwick Shepherd (author of The Shepherd’s Life) picks his favorite Penguins.
- Visit some fabulous literary castles and country houses. (What does it say about me that I’ve read almost all of these?)
Favorite Posts from Other Bloggers
- More fantastic fictional schools from Girl with Her Head in a Book.
- A really thoughtful post about what we’re doing when we blog about books, at Babbling Books.
- Another exceptional post about reading and writing, My Experience Is Not Your Experience, at Tales from the Reading Room.
- We get the benefit of Biking Through Switzerland without having to actually hit the road, at Books and Vines.
- More armchair traveling: Summer travels in Britain from Things Mean a Lot. (And here are Part Two (Edinburgh) and Part Three (London, Salisbury and Bristol).
- At Mirabile Dictu, I discover someone else blogging about Blackstock College from Tam Lin!
Better Blogging
- From Nose Graze, detailed advice on building your email list.
- A helpful tutorial for TweetDeck from River City Reading.
- At These Paper Hearts, a pithy post on engaging more readers with your book reviews.
Image of the Month
Source: Library of Congress, found here.
Shared in the Sunday Post hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer
The Emerald City Book Review Archive 
Thanks so much for linking to my post.
I am off top check out some of the other very interesting looking links that you posted.
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And thank you for your thoughtful commentary as always, Brian. Hope you find some links to love.
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I always enjoy round-ups like this! I wanted to do some version of it but worry that i can’t keep it up … so I end up looking at others’ posts instead š
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I was a little nervous about starting a new feature in case I don’t keep up with it. But I have a pretty good system going for marking things I want to put in the summary, so it’s not all that difficult in the end. I do hope you enjoy it.
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This is a fun feature! I love the travel posts. One day I will get back to England! Ah, and that Shakespeare library is big and beautiful and I would love to spend all my days there š Thanks for sharing!
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England is a dream for the future, but I should really get to Washington before too long.
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I’m glad you found and enjoyed my post! š
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And thank you as usual for all the helpful hints.
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Ooh, I’m excited to check out the engaging your readers post. I think increasing engagement is really what I want when I say I want to grow my blog, not just greater numbers of followers.
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I agree, and I’m always interested in learning more about how to get there.
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Great links! I very much enjoyed the blog on Mary Stewart book covers. I do have some Chicago Academy Review (I hope I have that name right) books, and had no idea they had a blog. Also very much enjoyed Brian Joseph’s blog on blogging!
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Glad you enjoyed the links! There’s so much great stuff to share out there.
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