Jen at Jen’s Bookshelf is doing a special Detectives Around the World week which I did NOT know about until yesterday, unfortunately, or else I would have tried to join in. But! There’s lots of interesting posts happening, including Monday’s and Tuesday’s And today’s reviews and discussion posts. Also, you can vote for you favorite detective through Friday. Good stuff!
It’s National Library Week! (With Neil Gaiman as chair!) This year’s theme is about communities thriving at a library, and while I love my main campus library I think the general community (aka the non-campus community) thrives better at my main public library, which is also awesome, although somewhat less easy for me to get to. So, big shout out to all those folks who work at the Main Library! 
Jackie of Farm Lane Books has an interesting post about US bloggers versus UK bloggers. While I don’t necessarily agree with her perceptions of US bloggers, I did think this bit was interesting:
Most of the books are very American based and while I do enjoy reading books set in the US I also like to read books from other countries and ones written in translation. I find that these are poorly represented in the US.
It’s true; we’re pretty insular in the US, even with reading challenges and such trying to rectify that balance. I think also we don’t have a large input (is that the word I want?) of translated books, unlike other countries, and I think that’s part of the problem, too.
Also, Kim wants your input on the FTC disclosure thingy! For a paper! Help a girl out, y’all.
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