Fussy’s favorites: Week of December 16, 2019

It’s easy to miss the occasional post or two online, so we’ve rounded up some of the highlights from our reader blog this week.

Unveilings galore

• Check out photos of George R.R. Martin's new bookstore

• Emma Watson hides copies of Little Women around London

• The Far Side is now online — and more cartoons are coming

Classics back in the headlines

• Why Jane Austen's novels have endured

• Author hopes to buy house that appears in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley

• T.S. Eliot estate: Bad reviews of Cats wouldn't have bothered the poet

• Reviews of the new, dark A Christmas Carol movie are mixed

Big announcements

• Vietnam War writer Larry Heinemann has passed awa

• NPD BookScan: Fifty Shades of Grey is the decade's bestselling book

• Crowdfunding campaign saves UK publisher Galley Beggar Press

From the Potter-verse

• Lightning strikes twice: UK man sells another rare Harry Potter book

• J.K. Rowling tweets in support of woman fired over anti-transgender remarks