- “Don’t Blame Social Media if Your Teen Is Unsocial. It’s Your Fault” by Clive Thompson over at Wired: Some worry that teens are losing crucial social skills as they go online more and more. But teens go online more and more to connect. Which is why teen spaces (in libraries or otherwise) matter so very much. (via @readingrants and @justinlibrarian)
- Book Riot has a handy list to help you “Go from Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books”: Of the 100 titles I’ve read 32. So I guess I’m 32% well-read. I’ll take it. (via @readingrants)
- “Writing ‘Rudolph’: The Original Red-Nosed Manuscript” by Jessica Pupovac over at npr: Now I knew Gene Autry was the first one to sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (I know a lot about Gene Autry. It’s just one of those things.) but I didn’t know the story started as a book. Or at Montgomery Ward. Even cooler is that you can view the original manuscript too! (via @PWKidsBookshelf)
- Jamie Etkin at Buzzfeed offers “You’ve Got Mail’s Guide to New York” with a rundown of all the real life locations that featured in the movie. (via @hopedellon and @booksofwonder)
- You can head over to Oxford Dictionaries to find out your birthday word. (Mine is the very, very, very disappointing “channel surf”)
- “THIS Is Why You Should F***ing Love Teenage Girls” by Elizabeth Perle at Huffington Post: Teenage girls are awesome. Duh! (via @scouri)
- I’m obsessed with rubberband bracelets. Everyone is. Now so are publishers according to Publisher’s Weekly.
- The British Library is on Flickr Commons now. You’re welcome. (via Bookshelves of Doom)
- “A scientific argument for dressing a little nicer at work” by Carmel Lobello over at The Week: After all, clothes do make the man or woman! (via @infowitch)