Happy birthday, Isaac Asimov! Maybe. Probably.

Newbery winner Kate DiCamillo has been named Ambassador of Young People’s Literature, a position which has been around since 2008.

Sure you can find plenty of lists of best of 2013, but what books were unfinishable? (Well, for Laura Miller?)

Ruth Rendell: “Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.”