Link Love: 12.14.17

Good googly mooglies! It has been forever since I posted a Link Love. I mean, it's kind of been forever since I posted anything, but, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Let's not dwell on the past, shall we? Here's a round up of some of the best bookish things I've compiled for you over the past couple of months. 

READ:

• I am so pleased with the diversity on my local library's Best Books of 2017 list! Way to be amazing Multnomah County!
• Caleb Green is my new hero. This adorable 4-year-old read 100 books (!) in one day. Because he wanted to!
• Enjoy this Harry Potter chapter written by a predictive text bot. I need a "Hermione Has Forgotten How To Dance" shirt now. 
• Language is political: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is 'feminism', Global Language Monitor's Word of the Year is 'truth', and Dictionary.com's Word of the Year is 'complicit'. (Still waiting to see what word/s the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Dialect Society announce.)
• Judge books by their covers: Paste's 30 Best Book Covers of 2017. What would you add to this list?
• The first poster for the upcoming Ready Player One movie was released and I suspect Photoshop was used. Poorly. 
• Redcurrant and blackcurrant jelly may have eluded poor Meg Brooks née March in Little Women, but if you follow this recipe you can master it! It sounds delicious and I am not on the hunt for currants. 
• Cover design forecast for 2018. I have zero complaints about any of these trends. 
• Okay, I can follow the logic on banning the pop-up version of A Charlie Brown Christmas (you could hide weapons in it), but I fail to see how Freakanomics could incite a riot where Mein Kampf is okay. If you want to see the entire list of what books are banned in the Texas prison system, you can here. 
• It's so hard not buy books for everyone because, well, BOOKS! But this article makes a good point about not buying books for non-readers this holiday. I'd be mad if someone bought me golf clubs just because they like to golf, because I do not like to golf. 
• Speaking of prisoners and books, an Oakland firefighter is collecting books for inmate fire crews through December. 
• I'm not sure I agree 100% with Eco's logic, but I love that my "antilibrary" is a good thing, especially since I have a small addiction to my library hold function.
• NPR's 2017 Book Concierge is here. 
• "The skin along her arms and shoulders are different shades of tan like water stains in a bathtub." is the line that earned Christopher Bollen this year's "Bad Sex in Fiction" award. 
• Carrie Fisher has been nominated for a posthumous Grammy for the audiobook of The Princess Diarist. Miss her. 
• Why ARE children's authors so eccentric?

BUY:

• Obvious State's 2018 Bibliophilia Mini Calendar is stunning! (Of course it is, everything they make is.)
• I'd be okay if my house smelled like Frostbeard Studios' The Shire candle all the time. 
• Who needs the Sorting Hat when you can have your very own Sorting Candle!
• Literary Rocks Glasses for the book AND booze loving person in your life. FYI, I am that person, and I prefer the Sherlock Holmes one. Thank you in advance. 
• This is the coolest bookish necklace I've seen in ages!
• I LOL'd at this Bookmarks Are For Quitters t-shirt. 
• My husband just made me a tealight holder, so I am all about these Mini Library Scented Tea Lights!
• These Mrs. Darcy nail wraps are gorgeous. 
• Juniper Books' We Write, We Rise collection of female American writers is everything my feminist, lit-loving heart craves.