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.

• For anyone who’s ever been annoyed when faced with the assumption that the only thing to do with an English degree is teach: Why English/Creative Writing is the most important discipline in a post-apocalyptic world.

• It’s lovely to hear that the Library of Congress is digitizing a rare children’s books. Anything to increase access and support literacy!

• Did you know this week is Canadian Mental Health Week? It’s a great opportunity to broaden your horizons by reading about the challenges many are facing. Here are 11 Canadian books that CBC Books has recommended for Canadian Mental Health Week.

• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows seeks to identify “emotional states without names, and offers both a poetic term and a philosopher’s skill at precise definition.” What a fascinating project!

• And just for fun, there is an Instagram account called VPLGold which posts pictures of some of the weirdest and wackiest books in the Vancouver Public Library Collections. Good for a chuckle, for sure.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out our best bookish links of the week. And don’t forget—there’s still time to enter to win a three-book “Sinister Stories” prize pack of PQL titles over on Open Book.

Have a great weekend,