The Medical Merry-go-Round Weekly Link Round-Up

 

This is a busy week here at Casa Kittling with multiple doctor appointments for us both, so I'm going to love you and leave you with a graphic that should resonate with most of us.

Have a good weekend wherever you are, and enjoy the links!

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• Many high school students can't read. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?
• Why do all romance covers look exactly the same?
• Over $325,000 has been raised for the Liverpool library damaged by rioters.
• Appalachian authors are coming together to counter the narrative in J.D. Vance's book.
• What the deliberate targeting of libraries reveals about the nature of war.
• Bigoted bookselling: When the Nazis opened a propaganda bookstore in Los Angeles.
• A 462-year-old Beaufort County (South Carolina) town opens its first public library. Take a look inside a new world.
• Australia's new Right to Disconnect law allows workers to ignore calls and emails after hours.

 

►Book Banning & Censorship◄

• The author of The Free Speech Handbook defends it after the book was banned in a Virginia school.
• Tampa Bay's New College moves to fire its top librarian over book disposals. (The dean was caught trying to throw away 13,000 books.)
• Six major publishers, the Authors Guild, and several bestselling authors have teamed up with students and parents in Florida to file a federal lawsuit over a new Florida book banning law.
• The Freedom to Read Bill has passed the California legislature.
• A school board member recalled over a book ban attempt has been chosen to be on the library board in Nebraska.
• A Christian County (Missouri) library will label books for LGBTQ, violence, and sexual content.
• The Fort Bend (Texas) Independent School District has approved a new library policy that gives the superintendent sole power to ban books.
• The Grand Forks (North Dakota) library board has voted to keep six children's books on sex ed in place.
• Oklahoma has revoked the license of the teacher who gave her class the QR code to the Brooklyn Library in a book-ban protest.
• Tallahassee Democrat op ed: Don't ban climate science books from Florida's students.
• Virginia state senator Chris Head is "deeply troubled" by some Botetourt County library books.
• The Board of Trustees has passed a resolution to declare Mount Laurel Library (New Jersey) as a book sanctuary.
• A former lawmaker in Arkansas has called for tarring and feathering fellow library board members. 
• A judge has ruled that a Llano (Texas) librarian's wrongful termination suit can proceed.

 

 

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• A metal detectorist unearthed an "exceptionally rare" 2,000-year-old Celtic coin.
• A 17th-century home has been unearthed in Colonial Williamsburg.
• A 17th-century pirate "corsair" shipwreck has been discovered off Morocco's Barbary Coast.
• Ancient Egyptians may have used a hydraulic lift to build the Step Pyramid.
• Archaeologists stumbled upon an ancient pot of gold coins in Turkey.
• The mystery of the Bronze Age ax heads mailed anonymously to an Irish museum has been solved.
• See the historic ruins hidden inside everyday buildings in Athens.
• Newly discovered skeletons in Pompeii spent their last moments hiding from the eruption in their bedroom.
• Rare Roman-era silver ingots depicting Constantine the Great were seized from an alleged black-market sale.

 

►Channeling My Inner Elly May Clampett◄

• These spiders use captured fireflies as flashing lures to snare more prey.
• A drone captured reindeer forming a hypnotic cyclone after feeling threatened.
• This bird species was extinct in Europe. Now it's back, and humans must help it migrate for winter.
• A rare endangered lynx was spotted in Vermont for the first time since 2018.
• A black cat calmly watches a raging monsoon storm in Phoenix through the window in this video.
• Hundreds of sea lions took over a popular California beach.
• A new tarantula species has been discovered in southeastern Arizona.
• A dolphin keeps biting people in Japan. Researchers think it's just lonely.

 

►The Wanderer◄

• The Vitagraph smokestack-- the remnants of what was once the largest film studio on the East Coast-- are hiding in plain sight.
• For decades, Switzerland dumped munitions into its pristine alpine lakes. Now, it wants them gone.
• Take a virtual tour of New York City with these fifteen photos.
• William Blake's cottage will be saved-- and transformed into a new museum.
• Philadelphia: plenty of crime fiction, not so much brotherly love.
• The Peekskill Riots revealed the racism and antisemitism hidden beneath the surface of the anti-communist movement.
• The Bawdy House Riots of 1668.
• Eight movie museums cinephiles need to visit.

 

►Fascinating Folk◄

• Later in life, Claude Monet obsessed over water lilies. His paintings of them were some of his greatest masterpieces.
• Attica Locke: That's a wrap.

 

►I ♥ Lists◄

• The best historical fiction set in Nigeria.
• 30+ TV show book adaptations arriving this year (so far).
• Eight outstanding British mysteries where a real person is the fictional sleuth.
• Dive right into these seven cozy mysteries on the water.
• Eight mysteries and thrillers about cults.
• The 100 bestselling books of the past fifty years, according to the Sunday Times.
• Kirkus Reviews' 150 most anticipated books of the fall.
• The most anticipated historical fiction books of Fall 2024, according to Goodreads.

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.

No matter how busy you may be, don't forget that quality Me Time curled up with a good book!