Shelf Awareness hits it out of the park

I subscribe to Shelf Awareness' weekly newletter and it was just chock full of good stuff today.

• First, don't you just love this diary? For people who have difficulty getting insprired, Philipp Keel's Simple Diary makes it easy.
• Next, check out this live map from Book Depository, that shows titles and locations of book purchases.
• They also featured a link to an article entitled Literary Drinks: 10 Famous Fiction Writers and Their Cocktails. I may need to initiate a tasting project.
• There are also some good book recommendations, a couple of which caught my eye for summer reading: Southern Charm: A Novel by Tinsley Mortimer (doncha love that name? Tinsley?); and The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones. The first is a novel featuring a displaced Southern woman in Manhattan, the second a comic mystery set in an English manor house.

You can check out the rest of the newsletter here.

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I'm currently reading Mindy Kaling's memoir Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) and it's a fast, light, and very funny read. Kaling is a producer and writer for the American version of The Office and also plays Kelly Kapoor.