This week on the bookish internet

• The good people at LitHub have a slate of nominees for their bookish Oscars.
• Romance twitter erupted this week when extensive and gobsmackingly blatant plagiarism by Cristiane Serruya was discovered by fans of other authors. (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books)
• Nick Kapur shares delightful images from an 1861 Japanese “version” of American history. If nothing else, this book pushes back the origin of fan fiction by decades. (Boing Boing)
• There’s a new theory about the Voynich Manuscript. (Open Culture)
• Books can contain more information than just with their text. Apparently, medieval books are packed with DNA from all kinds of species. (The Atlantic)
• Books are for reading—not for smoking. (The Digital Reader)
• Do you agree that the collected last sentences here are truly unforgettable? (The Washington Post)