Some good links for the afternoon:

• What’s your pet word?
• I am unreasonably excited about this list of books Daria read.
• Cool look at the role of the fairy godmother in Cinderella retellings.
• The illustrated twenty stages of reading.
• Amazing things libraries are doing around the world.
• A poem by Kofi Awoonors, poet and one of the slain in the Nairobi mall terrorist attack.
• The Hub has YA book suggestions for Hispanic Heritage Month.
• I’d love a book/ebook bundle.
• Readings that go way over time and other awkward MFA moments.
• And the best response to the recent sexist writing professor comments.