If you have already worked your way through the links in my Summer Reading post from late June, here are some more quality and compelling reads (and some fun stuff) for your endless summer nights...
- Slate: "The Librarian Who Changed Children’s Literature Forever" by Laura Miller
- The Atlantic: "Can Twitter Fit Inside the Library of Congress?" by Andrew McGill
- Backchannel: "The [Human] Codebreakers: What every company gets wrong about developing for the emerging world, and how to do it right" by Jessi Hempel
- Time: "This Twitter Love Story Is a Digital Fairytale Come True" by Raisa Bruner
- NASA: "Bright star sets her sights on exoplanets" (18-year-old NASA star hopes to inspire other young girls to pursue careers in science) by Pat Brennan
- Motherboard: "The People Who Believe Electricity Rules the Universe" by Sarah Scoles
- NPR: "Care Packages: How The U.S. Won Hearts Through Stomachs After WWII" by Maanvi Singh
- The New Yorker: "Without Dave: Thinking Too Much About David Letterman" by Julie Hecht
- National Geographic: "19th-Century Schoolgirls Were Incredibly Good at Drawing Maps" by Betsy Mason
- Book Riot: "On the Importance of Creepy Kids' Books" by Claire Quigley
- BBC: "Syria's secret library" by Mike Thomson
- Smithsonian: "How You Wound Up Playing The Oregon Trail in Computer Class" by Matt Jancer
- The Guardian: "Camps for transgender teenagers: 'It was almost magical'" by Kate Lyons
- Atlas Obscura: "10 Places Caught Up in Odd Border Disputes: The world's most bizarre cartographic feuds" by Meg Neal
- The Washington Post: "In ‘Motel of the Mysteries’ America falls — and it doesn’t actually matter" by Alyssa Rosenberg
- The Atlantic: "American Literature Needs Indie Presses" by Nathan Scott McNamara
- Black Nerd Problems: "Is Representation for Representation's Sake the New Danger?"
- The New York Times Magazine: "Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Paste: "The 10 Best Boardgames at Gen Con 2016" by Keith Law
Books I recently finished
- The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell
- Paper Girls, Volume 1, by Brian K. Vaughan
- The Vision, Vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man, by Tom King
- Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival, by Velma Wallis
- Ink, Ark., and all that: How American places got their names, by Vernon Pizer
Books I'm currently reading
- The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape, by James Rebanks
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro
- Feynman, by Jim Ottaviani
- Stand Still, Stay Silent: Book 1, by Minna Sundberg
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