Lots of great links to get you through Friday:

• The Outsiders was one of my very favorites in 8th grade. How could it get better? Add a hip soundtrack, that’s how.
  
• It’s easy to take libraries for granted, but we need to remember that their resources weren’t always available to the public.
• “These manuscripts, they are not just for us in Timbuktu…They belong to all of humanity. It is our duty to save them.” Compelling article about protecting precious historical manuscripts from extremist invasion.
• Writers on seeing their books in print for the first time. Warm squishy feelings.
• Fictional ladies and their noms.
• Getting rid of book clutter aka me insisting I’m going to reread everything.
• Kenneth Branagh, watch out–the Pigeon is tackling Hamlet.
• Virginia Woolf knew her way around a doodle.
• Maureen Johnson imagines classic literature remarketed as chick lit.
• Love Jo Knowles’s storyboards!