Oh, Happy Day!!

Today is National Book Lovers Day! (Still no Google Doodle. What's up, Google?)

How will you celebrate? Here are some suggestions:

• Well, obviously, read a book! Or, if you're me, three at a time...
• Visit your local library. If you don't have a card, get one. It's free! If you visit regularly and appreciate your library, consider joining the Friends. Support your local library!
• Support libraries nationally, too! You can visit the ALA's site and Take Action for Libraries!
• If you've borrowed a book more than three times from your library and still can't wait to read it again - go buy the book! Support your authors and your local bookstores! 
• Contact your favorite authors and let them know how much you appreciate their work! You can many on Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr or Reddit or [insert social media here]. You can also find physical addresses to contact them through snail-mail! 
• Give a book away! If you're celebrating today, chances are pretty good you have a lot of books around, and you know someone somewhere that would love one of them. 
• Find your nearest Little Free Library! How far away is it? Too far? Consider setting one up in your neighborhood!
• Eat cake!

There are probably tons of other ways to celebrate. Me? I'll be reading. I'd be doing that, anyway - but, today, I'll read them with extra enthusiasm. 

Links!

• Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
• Why Tubby & Coo’s is Removing “Fables” from Our Shelves Related: Dissenting Opinions May Occur: Some Thoughts on Yesterday's Troubling "Writing Women Friendly Comics" Panel "Claiming that success in the industry is merit-based and gender-irrelevant while simultaneously using your position as an established male creator to literally shout down women’s voices is willful ignorance. It isn’t eccentric; it isn’t cute, and it isn’t excused by the generation you’re from or the comic world you came up in. Unfortunately, it’s also not uncommon."
• Cannabis discovered in tobacco pipes found in William Shakespeare's garden 
• Education
• U.S. probe into Georgia special ed program could have national impact 
• Elizabeth Warren wants the Education Dept.’s ‘flawed’ review of student loan contractors investigated 
• Politics (I have a feeling this will be a standing section until I quit or the presidential election is over)
• The Trump Goes On "Those who still remain Trump supporters seem to be beyond shame. It doesn’t matter that they’re angry about the incompetence in Washington. Turning to Trump to solve the problems in Washington is like turning to an ape to fix a broken refrigerator. It’s embarrassing, but rather than embarrassment, the Trump followers will feel more anger and their pose will shift from self-righteousness to victimhood. And many of them will dig in further." Wowzers. I still like my Kingpin analogy better, although Fisk is demonstrably more intelligent than Trump, despite being a fictional character...