I was fortunate enough to have some time this week to browse the web. This is a collection of my book related musings for the week. Enjoy!
1. The Kitchn's 12 Favorite Cookbooks for Summer. Cookbooks often feel unnecessary in the summertime. After all, who needs another recipe for grilled zucchini or corn on the cob? And yet with summer's easy living and easy cooking sometimes I get lazy and forget to try new things. A few cookbooks are breaking me out of my routines this summer, pulling me away from popsicles and grilled eggplant, encouraging me to enjoy the generosity of summer in new ways.
2. The Morning News, How to Write a Thank-You Note. There is a six-point formula to the proper thank-you: Learn it, know it, memorize it—and it will never fail you.
3. The Los Angeles Times, Whom to follow on Twitter? Start with 25 of Culture Monster's favorites. Friday, July 15, is the fifth anniversary of the first public tweet, a milestone that may warm your heart or boil your blood. In that time around 260 million people, including 13% of online Americans, have told the world about their dinner, their dog and their duodenum. (I wish that last one was a joke. Sadly, no.) Haters describe Twitter as a cesspool of narcissism. They are not entirely wrong, but Culture Monster is willing to look beyond the spam and oversharing to find much to delight in.
4. Publishers Weekly, The 5 Most Stolen Books. Yesterday, historian and author Barry H. Landau was arrested on charges of stealing historical documents, including ones signed by Abraham Lincoln, from the Maryland Historical Society. The arrest eventually led to Landau’s locker, where police found upwards of 60 documents worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Laudau’s heist and the tremendous value of the stolen documents got us thinking about the other end of the literature theft spectrum: what are the most frequently stolen books from bookstores?
Have a great week/weekend!
Beachbrights
(guest blogger)
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