Category: Thursday’s Things

“Thursday’s Things” is a collection of interesting stuff I’ve found during my meanderings on the net.  Sometimes it’s monthly, other times it’s whenever I happen to find at least 10 topically related links I think are worth reading, but it’s always on a Thursday.

March is Women’s History Month, and yesterday was International Women’s Day.  That makes today the perfect Thursday to give you tons of stuff about Women, Women’s History, Feminism, etc.  Most of these links are reading suggestions, but when do we not need more books to add to our TBR piles?

• 50 Great Books About 50 Inspiring Women
• 29 Awesome Books With Strong Female Protagonists
• Fiction for Young Feminists
• 10 Literary Characters Tween and Teen Girls Can Look Up To
• Buy, Borrow, Bypass: Badass Ladies of Historical Fiction
• 16 Female Literary Characters Who Would Totally Be BFFs If Only Their Storylines Would Have Crossed
• Her Story Arc
• Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist
• Dorothy Parker Audio
• The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin

• 10 Authors Who Wrote Gritty, Realistic Fantasy Before George R.R. Martin – Tired of waiting on George R.R. Martin to “Write Like the Wind?”  Check out some of these authors for your Dark Fantasy fix.
• 15 Secrets Hiding in the World of Game of Thrones
• Depressing Book Quotes as Motivational Posters
• Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times
• RSC and Samsung Bring Shakespeare to Smartphones
• 12 Interesting Facts about Dictionaries
• Food In Literature – Shaina‘s mini-challenge during hour 8 of Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon last weekend reminded me of this great cooking blog dedicated to food found in books.
• 14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature You Can Read in the Time it Takes to Eat Lunch
• The Curious Case of the Book Blurb (and Why it Exists)
• How to Judge a Person By Their Subway Read – Or any form of public transportation.

*I may start writing a “Thursday’s Things” post every other week in the near future, with the ultimate goal of posting a new one every week.

“Thursday’s Things” is my monthly* roundup of book related links I’ve come across while wandering down the rabbit hole that is the internet.

• 10 Authors Who Wrote Gritty, Realistic Fantasy Before George R.R. Martin – Tired of waiting on George R.R. Martin to “Write Like the Wind?”  Check out some of these authors for your Dark Fantasy fix.
• 15 Secrets Hiding in the World of Game of Thrones
• Depressing Book Quotes as Motivational Posters
• Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times
• RSC and Samsung Bring Shakespeare to Smartphones
• 12 Interesting Facts about Dictionaries
• Food In Literature – Shaina‘s mini-challenge during hour 8 of Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon last weekend reminded me of this great cooking blog dedicated to food found in books.
• 14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature You Can Read in the Time it Takes to Eat Lunch
• The Curious Case of the Book Blurb (and Why it Exists)
• How to Judge a Person By Their Subway Read – Or any form of public transportation.

*I may start writing a “Thursday’s Things” post every other week in the near future, with the ultimate goal of posting a new one every week.

…and they all did some much-needed spring cleaning 😉  Before that, though, they checked out this Irish and Spring-related list of links:

• 10 Modern Irish Novels You Shouldn’t Miss This St. Patrick’s Day – I have no idea if any of these books are any good, but they seem worth a try.
• Bookish Boozing: 12 Beers With Literary Names – While these beers aren’t Irish, why settle for the beers that everyone else is drinking on St. Patty’s Day?  If you’re going to drink while reading, you might as well pop the top off a bookish beer.
• The Do’s and Don’ts of Mixing Books with Booze – Before you tip back one of those bookish beers, read this, and save yourself the headache you’ll get when you see your bank statement.
• 14 Books That Will Kickstart Your Spring – The Spring Equinox is just three days after St. Patrick’s Day.  Perhaps after all that drinking, you could detox with one of these books.
• How to Throw the Perfect Mad Hatter’s Tea Party – Spring time, when it’s not raining, is the perfect time of year to throw a tea party.
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell’s Guide to Malicious Fairies – Leprechauns aren’t the only mythical creature you have to worry about coming across.
• How to Host an Anne of Green Gables Party – Do you prefer Anne over Alice?  Throw an Anne of Green Gables themed party instead of a Mad Hatter’s.
• TBR Calculator – Do you want to know how much longer you’ll need to regularly dust all those unread books on your shelves?  Tally up the number of books you own, enter in how many you read last year, and this handy calculator will make you consider culling those shelves once again.
• How To Weed Your Bookshelves – If the amount of time for you to get through your TBR mountain is too long to handle without hyperventilating, use this to get rid of the books you know you’ll never read.
• I Kondo’d The Heck Out Of My Bookshelves – It seems the new rule of life is to get rid of whatever doesn’t “spark joy.”

Normally, I only do one “Thursday’s Things” a month, but there are a lot of great things happening right now that I wanted to make sure all of my readers know about before the end of the month.

• Geeky Giving: What It Is & Awesome Giveaways! – Felicia over at Geeky Blogger’s Book Blog posted about this amazing way to donate money to an awesome cause and get a Sci-Fi book bundle and the chance to win a very cool giveaway while you’re at it.  Side note: I’ll be hosting a Sci-Fi reading challenge in the near future, and the book bundle looks like it would make for some excellent reading.
• Outlander Season 2 Premiere Date and Trailer – Amazon has added a way to stream Starz, Showtime, and other subscription cable channels to their Amazon Prime Video service for a monthly fee.  I haven’t tried it out yet, so I don’t know any of the specifics, but you can be sure I will when Outlander Season 2 comes back in April.
• Classic Romance Novels Worth Reading – Valentine’s Day may be over, but if you’re still in the mood for a love story, and you also enjoy or want to try out some Classic literature, give one of these a try.  My personal favorites are Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Also Coming in Book Form – I was never going to bother seeing the play, but I might read the book.
• New Harry Potter Series Added to Funko Pop! Collection – I’m adding Dobby to my Christmas wishlist.
• 16 Perfect Books To Fill The Void Left By Mad Men – This was posted back when the show aired its last episode, but the Boyfriend and I don’t have cable.  We’ve been waiting not so patiently for Netflix to add the second half of the last season, and now that it has, I’m not sure what to do after we watch it.  Maybe this list of books will help.
• 13 Facts About L. Frank Baum’s ‘Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ – I reviewed The Wonderful Wizard of Oz yesterday, so here are some fun facts about the book and author.
• Unusual Jobs of Famous Writers – I also started my new job on Tuesday.  While I’m not a famous writer, I thought this would be fitting since my job has nothing to do with writing or books.  It also has nothing to do with my degree.
• This Adorable Alabama Bookstore Only Sells Signed Copies – It’s still Feel the Paper Love February, so why not celebrate with a signed copy of a book you love?  This article doesn’t mention their website, but I found it with a little help from Google.
• The Library: A New Short Film On the Wonder of Libraries – February is also Library Lover’s Month, so here’s a video about a library.