Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

• If you’ve ever wondered about the evolution of cultural standards, this will be an interesting read for you. Oxford University’s Bodleian Library is putting on display a number of books previously deemed ‘obscene’.
• I’m all for reading what you like. While I generally prefer literature, I have nothing against reading genre fiction or children’s books. But every now and then, I like to reach for a weighty tome to give my brain a good workout. On why we need difficult books.
• “The whole trilogy stands as necessary reading at a time when society continues to demonize mental illness rather than support those who live with it daily.” Shane Neilson’s “Affect Trilogy” was treated to an intelligent review in PRISM International.
• If publishing is such big business, why do authors feel like they’re being short-changed? On the economics of publishing and the plight of the midlist author.
• And finally, librarians are kind of superheroes, in case you didn’t know. Check out the ways that librarians have stood up for freedom and truth.

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