(Via Shelf Awareness, via CBC) When a neighbor threatened to burn her deceased husband’s collection of 350,000 books, bibliophile Shuanna Raycraft of Saskatchewan offered to rescue them. After 9 months she and her… 8 / Read more »

Thankfully, The Mustache backed down, but here’s a fun thought experiment: let’s say that at least one of the knuckle-draggers cheering on the burning of Korans during the “international burn-a-Koran… Read more »

In Scotland, Shaun Bythell, owner of The Bookshop in the town of Wigtown is making some of his neighbors extremely uncomfortable with his plan to hold “a public bonfire of… Read more »

For bestselling children’s author Graham Taylor (aka J.P. Taylor), the idea was to give his office “a merciless spring clean,” reports Arifa Akbar in this story for The Independent. So,… Read more »