Links: Ghostbusters, Reading Challenges, & Archives

Workspace with computer, journal, books, coffee, and glasses.Happy Wednesday! This week is just flying by and I hope it feels that way for you too!

Just a reminder that Redheadedgirl and I are off to Stockholm. We start our travel tomorrow! We’ll be doing a round up post of our adventures once we’re back stateside, but if you want to follow our shenanigans on social media (mainly Instagram and probably Twitter), we’ll be using the #SmartBitchesinSweden hashtag.

By reader request, we’re posting Sassy’s GoFundMe again. We’re so amazed and grateful by the community’s support and thank you to all who has donated and kept Sassy in your thoughts!

If you loved Sarah’s podcast with digital archivist, Caryn Radick, you’ll be pleased to know that the article Radick wrote on the way romance writers use archives has been published:

The relationship between popular romance—a frequently marginalized and disdained genre—and the library and archival field has attracted varying degrees of attention. Yet the question of whether writers of popular romance use archives when researching their stories has been little studied. This article draws on a survey of 200 romance writers to show that, far more than many archivists may have thought, romance writers are a constituency, and quite often a passionate one.

As someone who did a directed study and several term papers on aspects of romance and how it relates to book publicity and social media for my Master’s degree, three cheers for more academic research on romance!

If you’re like me, you’ve been reading all the Ghostbusters news you can get your hands on. So the next couple links are Ghostbusters related. First, the women graced the cover of Elle and they all look so beautiful. I cannot stand it.

Secondly…when can we get our hands on this book:

This next link is from Finnish reader Riikka, who is a librarian. She created a Helmet reading challenge to get Fins to read in English. (HelMet is the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries.)

When you take the reading challenge remember that it is intended to increase the joy of reading, not the other way round. So read as many books as you have time to, choose thin books or quit the challenge in the middle of the year if you feel like it.

Feel free to use the challenge for your own reading as well! Or if you’re a native English speaker, maybe use the challenge to read works in translation!

Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!

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  1. Teev says:

    So, prompted by the sad news of Jo Beverley’s death, I’ve been rereading the Malloren books and I’ve had a couple of epiphanies. One, I think my fondness for Terry Pratchett’s Lord Vetenari stems from what I perceive to be his similarities to the eminently crushable Rothgar and B)I absolutely adore how often confirmed badass Rothgar’s solution to a current problem is “we must throw a party! It will, of course have a theme, which shall be ___, which will enable me to machinate my desired outcome (this of course, is an aside). My all time favorite response to “there’s trouble afoot” will always be “to the library!” but I must say that “to the party planning room!” (or, if you will, “summon Auntie Mame!”) runs a close second. Discuss?

  2. Heather S says:

    Guess now is a good time to let you know “Yesterday’s News” is a Kindle monthly deal for 99 cents.

  3. Lizzie R says:

    Thanks for making me waste some of my morning. I clicked on the Helmet challenge and then on Bookfacefriday and promptly lost my mind – some of those photos are fantastic. Ah the internet – only a click away from a completely unproductive day at work.

  4. JenM says:

    I don’t know if you will be traveling around the country or staying in Stockholm but if you are going south, I’d highly recommend popping over to Copenhagen Denmark. I spent a few enjoyable weeks working in Helsingborg, Sweden and going to Copenhagen on the weekends. It’s a great city to hang out in and explore and very easy to get to either by train or ferry from the south of Sweden. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a chance to make it up to Stockholm but I’ve heard it’s really beautiful. Whatever you do, I’m sure you’ll have a great trip.

  5. Karin says:

    Land of the Midnight Sun! You guys are going to come back seriously sleep-deprived, I assume you will be there for the summer solstice.
    I was young and broke when I travelled in Scandinavia, and it’s expensive there, so I lived on Gjetost and pickled herring, the two cheapest things you could buy. Gjetost is a goat cheese, but it’s actually sweet, like caramel, so make sure you try it. I did like it quite a bit at first, but not after eating it every day for a week!

  6. @Karin, gjetost is my favorite! We have it at Christmas in my family every year.

  7. Amanda says:

    @Karin: Because of your post, I made it my mission to find that cheese and I did. Your description of it being like caramel is spot on! It was really good, but boy…is it a big block of cheese. Hopefully we can finish it all by the time we fly back home since I’m not sure it’ll keep well in my carry-on. 😛

  8. Karin says:

    @Amanda, yup, it’s so rich and concentrated, it took forever to eat it all. I think it keeps very well, but you may not want to look at it again by the time you come home!

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