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.

• The holiday shopping season is officially on! The Globe and Mail has some recommendations on books to gift to make your decision-making a little easier this year.

• For many authors, Twitter has been an important platform for spreading ideas and marketing themselves and their works. So what will writers do if Twitter can no longer exist as it once did?

• If you’ve been following the Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger debate, you might be interested to know that the deal is basically dead in the water.

• If you, like this porcupette, love words, here are a number of books about the English language to educate and entertain.

• Finally, without our digital-focused culture, deep reading sometimes seems to be a thing of the past. But as this opinion piece in The New York Times argues, it is deep reading, not scrolling, that “nourishes our capacity for attention, empathy and insight.”

Thanks for stopping by and perusing our latest and greatest literary links. Hope you enjoyed!

Happy Friday,