This week (more or less) on the bookish internet

• Would you like to make a bookish new year’s resolution? Abby Hargreaves has some suggestions. (Book Riot)
  • Pair with Hurley Winkler’s account of why she will no longer push herself to read a book a week, as she had once resolved. (The Millions)
  • And with Stacey Megally’s experience of what she learned after she resolved to read more Asian American writers. (Book Riot)
• Is this the oldest story ever written (er, painted)? (Ars Technica)
• Academic Cecilia Aragon wanted to know what drew fan fiction writers to the medium and what they gained from it. (MIT Technology Review)
• Constance Grady dives into why the great ebook revolution never happened. (Vox)
• Jessica Pryde explains what on earth happened with Courtney Milan and the Romance Writer’s association last week. (Book Riot)
• Elisa Gabbert explains that sentimentality in writing is in the eye of the beholder. (Electric Literature)
• I love Sarah Blackwood’s commentary about Marmee and various adaptations of Little Women. She perfectly captures my frustration with Little Women and how Marmee—and her anger—should be talked about more. (The New Yorker)