Fussy’s favorites: Week of February 12, 2023

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. 

Returning to the classics  

• Percival Everett is retelling Huckleberry Finn from Jim's point of view

• Revisiting the 1960 bestseller The I Hate to Cook Book 

Solving mysteries

• Pablo Neruda's nephew: Tests prove my uncle was poisoned

• The man who solved Cain's Jawbone in 2020 is writing a sequel

Honors 

• When Maya Angelou received the Presidential Medal of Freedom

• If books competed in the Oscars categories ... 

From the stacks

• Library love: What else goes on besides book borrowing?

• Conservation challenges: How climate change is threatening books