The Year’s Best Overlooked Books, According to Booksellers

21 titles that deserved more love in 2016.
Read more: http://lithub.com/the-years-best-overlooked-books-according-to-booksellers/?source=Snapzu

The Fighter

The Marine Corps taught Sam Siatta how to shoot. The war in Afghanistan taught him how to kill. Nobody taught him how to come home. By C. J. Chivers.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/magazine/afghanistan-soldier-ptsd-the-fighter.html?_r=0?source=Snapzu

The Underground Railroad’s Troubling Allure

What do stories about the anti-slavery effort teach us—and spare us from learning—about ourselves and our nation? By Kathryn Schulz.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/the-perilous-lure-of-the-underground-railroad?source=Snapzu

The teaspoon: measure, stir, display or steal?

There’s one thing that you really need to know about the teaspoon: it is a precision instrument, meticulously calibrated to help ensure an excellent cup of tea. It has moved through many roles in its history: functional, social and ornamental. You wouldn’t expect many design variations on what it basically a long stem with a small bowl at the end, but there’s a surprisingly wide range, from apostle spoons to medusa snakes, trefids, silver kings, leopards, Hildesheimer Rose and crested fiddlebacks.
Read more: https://www.teabox.com/blog/teaspoon-measure-stir-display-steal?source=Snapzu

What will all the ‘stuff’ you own mean when you're older?

Which objects would you choose to tell the story of your life? By Gemma Carney.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/what-will-all-the-stuff-you-own-mean-when-youre-older-69585?source=Snapzu

In Hong Kong's book industry, 'everybody is scared'

Hong Kong used to be a place of relatively free speech in China, but that was before Xi Jinping’s crackdown. Now everybody from writers to booksellers, publishers and printers fear they will be next to ‘disappear.’
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/28/in-hong-kongs-book-industry-everybody-is-scared?source=Snapzu

Think again before you post online those pics of your kids

Many parents love sharing photos of their children on social media. But they should stop and think about how it might affect their children, now and in the future.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/think-again-before-you-post-online-those-pics-of-your-kids-70579?source=Snapzu