I’m going to start this week with a hearty Thank You to Peat Long for the shoutout in their Friday Five post yesterday. If you’re not following that blog, now’s the time to fix that.

No New Releases caught my eye this week—so I won’t be trying to add on to your TBR (or mine)—but that likely means I missed something. Anyone want to point something out?

Odds ‘n ends about books and reading that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
bullet Why inappropriate books are the best kind—An Op-Ed from the LA Times.
bullet 14 ways to get out of a reading slump—Some advice from Washington Post readers. A couple of these don’t show up on every reading slump advice piece I’ve seen.
bullet Librarian Alex Brown provided a list of ways non-library people can help your local library
bullet 7 Fiction Books That Change The Way You Think—some good TBR fodder and a great last paragraph.
bullet Author Commentary on the Ending of the Alex Verus Series—Benedict Jacka starts to look back at how he ended the Alex Verus series and a couple of ways he considered ending things.
bullet A Quickie With…. M.W. Craven—a fun Q&A with M. W. Craven
bullet Maps and Mapping in Fantasy by W.P. Wiles—W.P. Wiles dropped by FanFiAddict this week to talk about maps in Fantasy novels in general and his new novel in particular
bullet Coincidentally, Sheldon Comics posted this comic about Fantasy Novels the other day
bullet Book Twitter Will Always Be at War With Itself: To read or not to read? That is the question
bullet The Vampire Chronicles: Experts Weigh in On Literature’s Best Vampires—It looks like a decent list overall (not familiar as I could be with all the entries), but I’m including this solely for the last vampire.
bullet An off-the-cuff comment by Jennings on a correct response on Jeopardy! reignited the debate about Narnia reading order
bullet The Anarchism of the Dresden Files by CT Phipps—Might be the best thing I read this week.
bullet Audiobooks vs Reading Print/Ebooks: Are Audiobooks good for you or what?—The fact this comes from Lovely Audiobooks probably gives away the answer…
bullet Reading and Its Effects on your Emotions
bullet Self-published Authors Appreciation Week 2022—is next week. Be sure to keep your eye on the SPAAW 2022 Hub to read all the good posts. I’ve got one post ready, need to get crackin’ on the rest.

A Book-ish Related Podcast episode (or two) you might want to give a listen to:
bullet Libro.fm has recently started a podcast to talk all things audiobook. This week, I listened to Episode 01 “Meet the Founders”. I’d never wondered about how they started, but it hooked me. Looking forward to seeing where it goes from there.

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and extend a warm welcome to tinareadsallthebooks and Kimberly who followed the blog this week.