"Even in the 1700s, book clubs were really about drinking and socializing," Atlas Obscura reported.
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Headline of the day (via the Guardian): "Hygge under threat from friluftsliv as lifestyles battle for bookshop supremacy."
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Brightly showed how to make "a summer reading star chart for beginning readers."
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"À la Carte: Hannah Tunnicliffe's menu for novelists in 9 haikus" was featured by Signature.
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Daniel Radcliffe, for example. Pop quiz: Quirk Books challenged: "Is this older or younger than Harry Potter?"
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Jonathan Emmett's goal for the Impossible bookshelf was to build it so the "books fanned out like the voussoirs (the wedge-shaped stones) that make up a stone arch."