A With No Further Ado Weekly Link Round-up

 

Things are going well here at Casa Kittling, but I'm running very late on several things, so there won't be any introduction/amusing story this week.

Enjoy the links!

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• Why companies are simplifying their distinctive logos.
• TikTok expands its content to tap into the BookTok phenomenon.
• How an antitrust trial could reshape the books we read-- and who writes them.
• Historian Nick Wilding discovered that a prized Galileo manuscript was forged.
• What putting together an anthology taught Kenneth Wishnia about the resurgence of antisemitism.
• The history of the blurb, every author's best friend.
• From book stacks to psychosis to food stamps, librarians confront a new workplace. 
• How are annotated editions of books made?
• Eastern Kentucky schools ask for book donations for their flooded schools. 
• The sinister history of fumigating "foreign" books.
• The story behind the story: A Deadly Covenant by Michael Stanley.
  

 

►Book Banning & Censorship◄

• Duval County (Florida) schools bought dozens of new books. They're sitting indefinitely in storage.
• States that have enacted book ban laws. 
• Ohio librarian Kathy Zappitello is seeking to defeat a book banner where it counts-- the ballot box. 
• Florida schools grapple with new laws on library books and gender issues.
• Utah schools are adopting new book-banning procedures. 
• The Gender Queer obscenity case has been dismissed in Virginia. 
• Nora Roberts donated $50,000 to a Michigan library that was defunded for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from its shelves. 
• The list of 300+ books pulled and ranked on queer content in Collierville, Tennessee. 
• Few parents are actually opting their children out of their access to Florida school library books. 
• The St. Louis community reacts as some schools remove books under a new state law. 

 

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• A man discovered a rare purple pearl in a restaurant appetizer-- treasure hunting in a bowl of clams. Another rare pearl was discovered by kids along a river in Maryland.
  
• How did a French pocket sundial end up buried in a field in Indiana?
• A "luxurious" 1,200-year-old mansion has been unearthed in southern Israel.
• A broken fortress has been discovered buried under a mega-monument burial mound in Cyprus.
• Roman ruins reappear almost 2,000 years later from a river in drought-stricken Europe.
• In Romania, a trove of ancient gold rings buried with an extremely rich woman 6,500 years ago have been discovered.
• The oldest human-made structure in the Americas is older than the Egyptian pyramids.
• Archaeologists are calling on Unesco to save the Hagia Sophia.

 

►Channeling My Inner Elly May Clampett◄

• Pensacola Beach has its first leatherneck nest hatch in over twenty years.
• The evolutionary trait that may have led to human speech. 
• A new detection system could save sperm whales from ship strikes. 
• Arachnids experience REM sleep and may even dream. 
• Cougars are killing feral donkeys, and that's good for wetlands. 
• Watch a trio of playful cheetahs steal a cameraman's jacket. 
• Beneath a Greenland iceberg scientists have found a snailfish with antifreeze coursing through its veins. 
• New York City was visited by nine different whales in one day, and the photos are amazing. 
• Twenty cute pictures of animals and books because... why not? 
• The San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office received a prank 911 call... from a baby monkey. 

 

►Fascinating Folk◄

• The untold stories of surfing's trailblazing women.
• Mark Pryor on writing a novel set in World War II-Era France to honor his family history.
• These Black women changed America.
• How enslaved woman Elizabeth Freeman took her freedom to court.
• Ten facts about Mary Shelley.
• Who is the real "Queen of Crime"? Agatha Christie's estate sends a stern letter to Val McDermid. 
• Meet history's trailblazing "Only Women."
• What happened to Anne Boleyn's heart?
  

 

►The Wanderer◄

• Ten books about Israel.
• Belfast: the hidden castles under the city's shops.
• Twelve of the best books set in Australia.
• The twenty coldest states in the United States.
• Come hell or high water, mail arrives weekly in this remote canyon.

 

►I ♥ Lists◄

• A reading list on being Indigenous in America.
• Fifteen compelling Chilean books in translation. 
• Short books by South Asian writers. 
• Rhys Bowen recommends six historical fiction books. 
• Eleven new cookbooks that should be on your radar. 
• Check out these bookish beach towels. 
• These books explore the nefarious underbelly of the art world. 
• Eight fun TikTok bookish DIYs. 

 

 

That's all for this week! Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure.

 

Stay cool. Stay healthy. And don't forget to curl up with a good book!