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Enter a duo of Detroit-area librarians. Frustrated by aging tomes and seeking a way to enliven an upcoming industry-convention speech, Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner started Awful Library Books, a blog that catalogs the worst books found on local shelves. (See the all-time best 100 novels...
Both Hibner and Kelly said they have been surprised by the fanfare - including links from several librarian websites and from the popular blog Boing Boing - their site has generated since starting in April. "It was just our nerdy project; we had a hard time getting our husbands to look at the thing," Kelly says. They field frequent requests to purchase the books highlighted on the site, although in true library fashion, they aren't for sale...
...pair hope the blog does its part to highlight the need for libraries to weed their shelves - a task that requires proper funding. "Ideally, this site would die a natural death," Kelly says. Until then, we're content to kick back and read about Those Amazing Leeches - and marvel at the fact that such a book exists in the first place. See the top 10 literary stunts...
...icon of rebellion, however, Neda is different from her predecessors. The man who stopped the tanks in Beijing stood alone and anonymous; we do not know his name or his fate. Neda is dead, but her life story is still being pulled together--elaborated and embellished, blog post by blog post, tweet by tweet...
...Alvarez says could be an imminent property-tax hike to fill an almost $400 million budget hole - a move that veteran Miami realtors like Alex Shay insist would set recovery back. "It's out of line," says Shay, who recently took Alvarez to task on his Miami Real Estate blog. "A lot of people here are barely holding on to their properties, using credit-card advances to pay escrow, and the county wants them to take another hit?" (See TIME's photo-essay "Miami: Paradise Lost...