Saturday Miscellany—5/15/21

I’ve felt like I was half-awake from Tuesday afternoon through this morning. Anyone else have weeks like that? I seemed to function fine, accomplished almost everything I intended to, and so on–but it felt like it’d take me 0.3 seconds to go from active to unconscious. I had a point when I started this paragraph, but I seem to have misplaced it.

Hope you all had a good one and that there’s one or two things here that pique your interest as they did mine.

that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
The slow (imminent) death of books and bookstores—Let’s start off on a cheery note, shall we? I think he’s probably wrong, but…
My kids won’t even pick up a book – and it is definitely all my fault—I can relate to this
An Ear for Reading: Audiobooks Take Center Stage in the Classroom—this is pretty cool
Then again… Why we remember more by reading – especially print – than from audio or video
I Couldn’t Travel, so I Read 100 Books Instead—I wouldn’t normally think of Fodors as a good source for pieces about reading. Exceptions happen.
An Interview With Andy Weir—Elizabeth Tabler interviews the author of Project Hail Mary (and a few other things)
Q&A With Curtis Ippolito, Author of “Burying the Newspaper Man”—from MysteryTribune
Why Are Crime Writers So Darn Nice?—I’ve heard this a lot over the last few years…I do wonder why that is.
9 Sigils I Wish Existed in Kevin Hearne’s ‘Ink and Sigil’—This was just so odd (and good) I had to pass it along.
Books Of My Childhood—I reposted a list of some formative childhood books earlier this week, apparently, I’m not the only one thinking about that kind of thing lately.
Book Blogging rules/advices I Follow and Don’t Follow—food for thought
Ways To Write More Creative Book Reviews—some more to chew on (I think I might have linked to this a year or two ago, but I saw it this week and it got me thinking)

Episode (or two) you might want to give a listen to:
The Waterstones Podcast How We Made: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—I’ve listened to several podcast episodes about this book, and generally roll my eyes at them. But this is just fantastic. Were it available, I’d listen to a Peter Jackson-length version.
Fiction Fans Episode 8: Written in Dead Wax—a fun interview with Andrew Cartmel about the first book in his Vinyl Detective series (the second book in that series has been staring intently at me from it’s perch on my To Be Read Shelf since I listened to this episode…)