Links: Pirates, Rare Books, & More

Happy Hump Day! Is the week going by too slowly for you? In the middle of an afternoon slump? Links are here for you! Take a breather, grab some coffee or tea, and click through the handful of interesting things we’ve discovered recently.

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Heads up to all of our Australian romance readers! The Australian branch of HarperCollins has website for your romance needs. Credit goes to Kat at BookThingo who originally tweeted about this.

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Love books with pirates? Tor has a list of recommendations that feature “unconventional pirates.” 

Pirates need not be limited to the island-dotted Caribbean or the richest ports throughout the historic world—some don’t even need to be limited by time at all.

What do you think of the recs?

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We always want to hear about awesome women! Check out this profile on the women rocking the rare book trade at The Paris Review:

“It is a feminist act to preserve stuff that women have done and written,” said Elizabeth Denlinger, a curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library. The only difference in men’s and women’s collecting, she underscored, is money. She speculated that “when women became curators of special collections, many began buying books by and about women.” But what Denlinger collects is not only what sells. As an employee of a major research association, Denlinger’s overriding criterion for material is its research value. “I am filling in the historical canvas with people who weren’t there before,” she said, pointing to two lesser-known women who’ve made it into booksellers’ catalogues now, partly because scandal and sex sells and partly because decades of feminism have inspired enormous changes in the subject of scholars’ research: Mary Robinson, an actress-poet who had an affair with George IV when he was still prince of Wales and whose poetry, novels, and journalism have been the subject of study in recent years; and Helen Maria Williams, a salonnière who hosted a coterie of British and American writers and politicians in Paris during the French Revolution and whose books document her experience both in Paris and as a refugee from the Terror.

I AM FASCINATED!

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If you like true crime, you’re going to want to take a look at this list of recommendations from today’s crime writers.  I always love to see what books authors love to read or are currently loving.

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Want to look at images of cute wild cats that you may have never heard of before? This Twitter thread has you covered. What kind of cat are you? I personally identify with the sand cat.

The rusty-spotted cat is one of the world's smallest cats at only 2-3lb and 35-48cm long (minus tail).

Adults look like kittens and their small size keeps them relatively unknown.

They are found in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, and have a near threatened conservation status. pic.twitter.com/Yw3cuiRnHY

— Thal (@thalestral) August 18, 2018

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!