Afternoon links.

• At the Library as Incubator Project: a review of the Morgan Library & Museum's "Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters" exhibition.
• You've probably already perused the 2012 Cybils finalists, but have you looked at the Nerdies?
• Beth Revis on her journey to the NYT Bestsellers List: "That book was the book I wrote with the intent of doing everything right—and the result was that I did it all wrong. That book had no soul. I made the whole thing in an effort to write to the market, to make the perfect book—the book that would sell millions. I did everything right. And that was the worst possible thing I could have done."
• Tanita S. Davis on lighting a candle vs. cursing the dark: "I don’t know what else to do but say “NO.” None of us are intended to live this way. And to honor our own mental health, and to honor each other, I think we need to dig in our heels and not be dragged down into paranoia and fear and distrust of our neighbors. Ninety-nine-point-nine-nine-nine times out of one hundred, people are okay: definitely quirky, truly strange, undoubtedly weird, and yes, perhaps freakish, awkward, sometimes repellent — but not abusive, not cruel, not insane, not homicidal. Each time I leave the house, I want to remember that. Each time I interact with strangers, I want them to remember that. Each time my eyes meet those of a stranger’s, I want to remember kindness."
• New blog to bookmark: YA Reading Lists.
• Lake Superior State University has released their 2013 List of Words to be Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.
• BLANDINGS CASTLE MINISERIES FTW! *dies*
• Gorgeous literary-themed paper sculptures. (via mental_floss)
• Cthulhu heads to the Lake District. (via the Guardian)

Comments

[Maureen E]

BLANDINGS. I had not heard about that before, so I am now ECSTATIC.

[Kerry]

Unfortunately, Caitlin Moran reported in yesterday's paper that it sucks. Sigh.

[Leila]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.