
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.
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If you’ve ever worked in a bookshop (or wanted to), you might like to take a gander at this piece on how working in a used bookstore changes you and shapes your bookish habits.
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Censorship is on the rise around the world. I wonder what it is about our current situation that has laid the foundation for so many banned books.
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“Writing didn’t serve the purpose I wanted it to, which was to fix the fundamentally broken relationship between myself and other people. Reading—slowly, over decades—did.” On books and self-discovery.
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Blackout poetry made from rejection letters is both painful and painfully appropriate.
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And finally, take a peek at this month’s PQL newsletter, including musings from yours truly, the porcupette, on our finite reading lives, as well as a look at what’s coming up next from the Porcupine’s Quill.

I don’t know about you all, but I’m finding this month to be oppressively humid, at least in my neck of the woods. Here’s to hoping for some time this weekend in the A/C with a book!
Happy Friday (the 13th!),

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