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1. This post is brought to you by “hey, I remembered to proofread (seconds before I hit publish)!” Something I frequently forget to do (and only caught out of the corner of my eye while moving the mouse to the button). So this isn’t going up with the 4 missing links and 8 glaring formatting errors that it almost featured.
2. I’d picked the graphic for this far before I read the last post I mention, there’s no connection between them.

Hope everyone had a decent week, and that it ends on a relaxing note—and, hopefully, with a good book.

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:
‘I always be sneaky’: Boise eight-year-old hides self-made book on library shelf—an insanely cute story from a library nearby
The Comics Cavalcade: The rise of a medium—a very brief history of Comic Books
Humor in Books, and Other Places, Too! An Interview With Susana Imaginário—the latest installment in Lockhaven’s series. (I’m really enjoying these, can you tell?)
Witty and Sarcastic Book Club had another fun series this week, Fantasy Focus: Comedic Fantasy, you should check it out.
An Interview with Andi Ewington, coauthor of Campaigns and Companions
An Interview with Sean Gibson, author of The Part About the Dragon was (Mostly) True
A guest post by Kyle Lockhaven, the aforementioned interviewer
An Interview with Bjørn Larssen , author of Why Odin Drinks
A Guest Post by D.H. Willison, author of things like Love, Death, or Mermaid?
Where to start with: Agatha Christie—Janice Hallett provides this handy guide for people like me, who haven’t actually read one of the genre’s greats and want to start.
21 Phrases You Use Without Realizing You’re Quoting William Shakespeare
A Reading Spreadsheet Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated—they don’t?
10 Book Series I Loved Growing Up—a fun post over on FanFiAddict, even if it makes me feel really old because I literally couldn’t have read most of these as a kid
Blogging to Get Free Books: Sometimes Necessary, not Evil—Once again, I have missed a blogging controversy (and I’m fine with that), still a good post.
What I’ve learnt from reading fiction – part 7—I really like these posts
To binge read or not to binge read?

This Week’s New Releases that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
The Appeal by Janice Hallett—came out in the U.S., and should not be missed. I talked a bit about it last year.
Accomplice by Lisa Lutz—will get under your skin. I posted about it recently.
Light Years From Home by Mike Chen—a family drama and UFO abduction story, that just might involve an intergalactic war. I hopefully dive into this next week.

I apparently had one of those weeks where I did more reading than blogging/blog prep, I didn’t realize it, but apparently, that was the case. STill did get a post or two up every day, and found some good stuff for this post, just not what I expected to produce at the beginning of the week. Oh, well. Read some good stuff, plugged away at a couple of projects I’m excited to share with you, and…well, I don’t know, there should be a third thing, but who has the energy to write a whole list?

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:
Book bans are back in style
For Booksellers, the Crystal Ball Stays Cloudy: Indie booksellers saw solid sales in 2021 but wonder what 2022 will bring
30 years of Harry Bosch—that’s a mind-boggling number
Humor in Books, and Other Places, Too! An Interview with Armanis Ar-Feinial—I’m really digging this series from K. R. R. Lockhaven.
The Deeply Personal Art of Organizing Your Books—Molly Templeton weighs in on book organization
5 Years of Blogging—Suckerforcoffe looks back on five years of blogging—no mean feat.
What You Need to Know Before You Return a Book on Audible in 2022
I read City of Lies…all of them—I don’t know how I left this off of last week’s list, but I’m glad I did, I’m a little short on material for this week. The Fantasy Inn’s Kopratic read every book called City of Lies around. Brilliant idea for a project

A Book-ish Related Podcast episode (or four) you might want to give a listen to:
Tales From The Bridge: All Things Sci-Fi Ep.27: A Conversation with Seanan McGuire—I’ve heard a few interviews with McGuire—she’s always entertaining, but she’s in rare form here. Great stuff.
The Thriller Zone Nick Kolakowski, Pulp Thriller Writer—this was a good interview that inspired me to dip into the archives, the episodes with Ace Atkins and Tori Eldridge were worth noting, too. This podcast is going to be in the rotation for a while.

This Week’s New Releases that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby by Ace Atkins—This is the tenth and final book in this series for Atkins, and he goes out strong in this story of Spenser protecting a politician from threats and harassment. I tried to get my post up about this yesterday, but it needed a little more time in the oven. Hopefully early next week.

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and extend a warm welcome to Celeste L and Eweto Ovie who followed the blog this week. Don’t be a stranger!