Links Galore

A few good links to get you through the day:

The high school reading list zodiac; probably as accurate as the newspaper horoscope, but fun.
Not all too surprising that  Harry Potter inspires social activism.
Ranking teen hero types.
“You wish you could call in ‘curled up with a good book’ to take the day off work” (YES) and other things that happen when you’re a book nerd.
Sherman Alexie, mic dropping.
Blame neuromaturation for all those bad choices you made/are making as a teen.
A real-life look at Panem’s economic structure.
Peeta, you had one job!
Stephen Colbert suggest the next phase for Amazon delivery.
Gifts for the writer in your life (but seriously, skip the journals).
A lovely post about three shared literary birthdays.
“I believe that every lifelong reader has one author who somehow bored a hole into her childhood soul—a hole just large enough to let in all the rest of literature and art and humanity. For me—and I’m one of thousands and thousands, I know—that was you.” I think a lot of readers could send this letter to Lois Lowry.