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It's Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

Author, journalist, and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, best known for writing Nickel and Dimed, has died: https://t.co/4Sp3vAFBHT

A writer, born around 1890, is famous for three novels. The third is enormous, mad, unreadable. One answer is Joyce, of course. Another is J.R.R. Tolkien. @neepmail on reasons for liking Tolkien: https://t.co/5YpbpUGru1 https://t.co/GPx8m4n9RQ

Friday night. The perfect time to tweet about our Twitter Book Club. That's what everyone wants to hear about, isn't it? A Twitter poll has decided our next book. It's Treacle Walker by Alan Garner! It was close. Read about it here & join too! https://t.co/njfEn7jbY7 https://t.co/HclqCJLyFg

"When one of us leaves to become Girlfriend, it is always a little sad. I have seen this happen three times." 😂 (@mcsweeneys) https://t.co/vL5V9OhwwB

Hello, we are open. https://t.co/jWarFm3vmp

10 of the best sleuths in cozy mysteries: https://t.co/ENvcHqZD6S

“Art coming out of New York or LA is considered art with a capital A, but art coming out of New Orleans... gets called ‘regional art.’ But New York and LA are regions, too. All art is regional.” https://t.co/7TbFFX5E10

Our 7 Most Favorable Reviews in August (featuring titles from @wwnorton, @fsgbooks, @BLReview, @WestholmePub, @public_affairs, @penguinusa, and @CatapultStory): https://t.co/DXh5tSm3i9 https://t.co/6oXHYzFi8U

‘Having set up some tricky plot possibilities, the film loses all interest in them for quite a while, concentrating on ragged violence instead. Mainly people beat each other up.’ Michael Wood watches ‘Bullet Train’: https://t.co/rv1TyzrRsE

What began as a way to sneak in romance books for one reader turned into a way to find comfort in a good love story: https://t.co/8RQiYLI6Te

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda says tailoring to your audience doesn’t have to diminish your art. https://t.co/azV2jAbqVm

Food for thought: you'll be waaay better at dinner table conversation once you dive into any of these fascinating reads we can't stop discussing this week. See them all here 👉 https://t.co/9JGr6Veyuw https://t.co/2lDPb4WYtj

"The street seemed sad: always the same stores! the same narrow sidewalks! the same street lights! Always everywhere the same thing! But elsewhere there wasn’t the noise of the sea audible in the distance." https://t.co/z9fsKzkCSS

Who's up for a little demonic horror? https://t.co/jwnCF9kM4f